By: Anonymous

Anonymous
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 19:38:39 +0000

Unanticipated decline in college credit hours is a sham. STEM majors have become more popular because students interested in those majors have been targeted for acceptance by the admissions office. Not only did ASC already know that semester conversion would hurt their enrollment numbers, semester conversion also gave departments the opportunity to require fewer GEs for their majors, mostly from ASC classes. And then on top of that, the university decided to strategically enroll STEM students over humanities, arts, and SBS majors. There is no response to market forces and interest at work here, this is the university deciding to slim down ASC and then spinning effect into cause. All to the detriment of the students who graduate less prepared for the demands of a rapidly changing and ever-more-global workforce (because they don't learn how to THINK), and who leave school less well-rounded, happy, and interesting than they otherwise could. The lack of transparency about the budgeting at OSU is disgraceful, and the half-truths they do bother to tell are ridiculous. THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES.