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| Authored by: old man on Monday, May 23 2005 @ 10:31 AM CDT |
Thanks for providing an informed background on the issue.
I guess I have comments to be chewed up, rather than questions , per se. Please feel free to reject premise.
First, depending on how long the changes take to fully implement, this year's and possibly next year's students will not enjoy the increased flexibility in course counting. Given that the problem is being recognized now, does UW owe (morally, I guess) students caught on the cusp anything?
Regardless of whether or not UW is making "all possible speed" to correct the situation, the situation remains unresolved, and students are experiencing problems without a solution.
Second, the question of whether the proposed solution is adequate and honest remains in my head. Yaacov asked if this measure might be a half-measure, avoiding the harder adjustments to curriculum design and/or student recruitment and/or instructional training that would solve underlying problem. Perhaps this proposal less a stopgap than it at first seems, I don't know.
A final question: is there an "ideal" attrition rate? I'd imagine that zero would be nice, but in the real world. . . [ Parent ]
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