About time....

Quote:The man hired to help ease racial tensions at University of Missouri had tough love for the African-American activists who led fierce demonstrations there last fall, telling them late last week he has no intention of caving in to their demands.

Interim Vice Chancellor Chuck Henson, whose portfolio includes inclusion, diversity and equity, wrote a letter to Concerned Student 1950 Thursday, telling the group to stop making demands and work with the school to make things better.

“If you sincerely want better relationships, the time for demands, threats and arbitrary deadlines is over — you don’t need them,” Henson wrote.

Demands from the group, which takes its name from the 1950 admission of the school’s first black student, Gus Ridgel, include an “academic bankruptcy program” in which students could delete one bad semester’s grades from their records, according to The College Fix. Other demands include the hiring of more black faculty, $250,000 to expand the Black Cultural Center with a “Liberation House,” and a statue of civil rights activist Lloyd Gaines in the Carnahan Quadrangle.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/01/new...cmp=hplnws

Did n't they demand reparations?

I feel sorry for the Mizzou alumni and students that are ashamed of these events.

I know I would be.

I would certainly never donate again to an organization that would allow itself to be degraded by petulant children.

I must be missing the part where they are being forced to attend Mizzou

Unless you plan on working for a poverty pimp non profilt, post college, I would not put on my resume that I was a member
of that group.

(03-01-2016 01:00 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  About time....

Quote:The man hired to help ease racial tensions at University of Missouri had tough love for the African-American activists who led fierce demonstrations there last fall, telling them late last week he has no intention of caving in to their demands.

Interim Vice Chancellor Chuck Henson, whose portfolio includes inclusion, diversity and equity, wrote a letter to Concerned Student 1950 Thursday, telling the group to stop making demands and work with the school to make things better.

“If you sincerely want better relationships, the time for demands, threats and arbitrary deadlines is over — you don’t need them,” Henson wrote.

Demands from the group, which takes its name from the 1950 admission of the school’s first black student, Gus Ridgel, include an “academic bankruptcy program” in which students could delete one bad semester’s grades from their records, according to The College Fix. Other demands include the hiring of more black faculty, $250,000 to expand the Black Cultural Center with a “Liberation House,” and a statue of civil rights activist Lloyd Gaines in the Carnahan Quadrangle.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/01/new...cmp=hplnws

WTH is the bolded part all about? They want grade forgiveness? That is asinine. Do they still want the credits toward graduation and not the grade? If they want to get rid of a grade/replace a grade just retake the damn course. The entitlement mindset is bewildering.

Most good schools have an academic bankruptcy system.

They replace a ****** semester with withdrawals or whatever their equivalent is. No credit is awarded and no GPA points are given.

(03-01-2016 01:20 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Most good schools have an academic bankruptcy system.

They replace a ****** semester with withdrawals or whatever their equivalent is. No credit is awarded and no GPA points are given.

It was called dropping the class at ECU. You **** up, you lose the money for the class and try again the next semester.

I dropped two classes at ECU. One I forgot I was in until the professor emailed me after I missed the midterm, and the second in grad school right before the final because I would have needed to make a 97 on the final to get a B in the class.

(03-01-2016 01:20 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Most good schools have an academic bankruptcy system.

They replace a ****** semester with withdrawals or whatever their equivalent is. No credit is awarded and no GPA points are given.

Ah, ok, as long as no credit is given. I guess the parent is just SOL with regard to having paid for the previous credits. Still seems like weird concept to me. I remember just retaking a genetics course the following semester in order to get a better grade.

(03-01-2016 01:26 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(03-01-2016 01:20 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Most good schools have an academic bankruptcy system.

They replace a ****** semester with withdrawals or whatever their equivalent is. No credit is awarded and no GPA points are given.

It was called dropping the class at ECU. You **** up, you lose the money for the class and try again the next semester.

I dropped two classes at ECU. One I forgot I was in until the professor emailed me after I missed the midterm, and the second in grad school right before the final because I would have needed to make a 97 on the final to get a B in the class.

The Academic Bankruptcy system is an after the fact one.

You declare after the Ds and Fs have already been recorded against you.

Generally, you have to have a reason, illness, death of family member, hardship, etc..

My college gave into the demands since they have the spines of a jellyfish.