<< At my university, the mayor is lauching an attack against open
admissions (see below from today's Chronicle of Higher Education posting).
* NEW YORK CITY'S Mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Wednesday
called on the City University of New York to end open
enrollment, saying that the admission of poorly prepared
students had resulted in alarmingly low graduation rates, a
trend with "disastrous consequences" for the city. >>
to paraphrase Alan Sherman, open enrollment costs nothing, and it's worth the
price.
although this is probably a reply more suited to the Bloated Administration
newsgroup, if we could either a.) stop letting any schmoe off the street
enroll, or 2.) tighten up the course-requirement loopholes that plague the
campuses where i've taught, then i would have a more pleasant time teaching
the subject at hand, rather than doing remedial teaching in algebra courses (i
teach the remedial courses, too, and love them; i just dislike having to cover
that subject matter with students allegedly prepared for algebra).
:phil campbell
various jr colleges in southern CA
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