>The University of Akron has put its foot down against a professor who planned to raise the grades of female students so they would stay in his field of information sciences. He admitted to The College Fix that his plan could be “questionable,” but said he wanted to “test the water” to see if this approach could “attract female students into future classes” and help correct chronic gender imbalances in his field. The screenshots of a redacted email he sent to students in his systems analysis and design class were apparently posted on Reddit Monday night.
>In the email, he informed students that he had sent their final grades to the registrar and that three “categories” of students “may see their grade raised one level or two.” Female students would get grade raises as part of a “national movement to encourage female students to go [in]to information sciences.” Others who would get an artificial boost: students whose exam scores showed “higher performance than their calculated ones” and students who attended but “missed reporting attendance.”
>His own classes have “one or two female students” on average in a class of 20 to 30, and they are “not doing well,” he told The Fix in an email. These women will probably have to “repeat the courses or leave the program” without a grade boost. The planned grade boosts were part of his own “experiments to understand the attitudinal and motivational factors of female students that explain their success and failures," he said.
>Since he floated the idea, he said that he had received “three other emails” in addition to the query from The College Fix. “Apparently there are concerns from some individuals... Unfortunately, yesterday’s experiment could not carry through,” so he’s abandoning the idea “for now.”
Hey Jow Forums, is this why there aren't more women in STEM? And do you agree or disagree with this policy?
>“Gender imbalance is a concern in the IT field,” he said to The College Fix:
>"Tech companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft etc. have only about 10-15% of females in their engineering teams, and over 50% of them will leave the profession over time. These companies desperately need to hire more females from our schools to refill the workforce, yet our universities are not getting many girls interested in the programs."
>When asked to describe the “national movement” mentioned in his email to students, Liu said it was a “conglomerate of discussions, initiatives, and cals for action to address gender imbalance issue in the IT field.” He referred to Facebook’s “Annual Leadership Day for female employees around the world” and to Google’s training program for “women to establish links with men in coding.” He also said he was also following a plan of action by Microsoft to close the gap between men and women in STEM and IT fields.
>This plan involves providing encouragement, developing a “growth mindset,” and allowing female students to participate in hands-on work in STEM and IT fields to encourage their interest and involvement in the programs. The Microsoft plan implicitly discourages giving girls an academic boost. It says that “the solution doesn’t necessarily require a curricula overhaul,” but rather making classrooms “a safe place for questions and vulnerability.” Because girls often feel more embarrassed to ask questions when they don’t understand the material, teachers should reward effort to learn rather than knowing the answer right away.
>In an email to The College Fix, Provost Rex Ramsier said, "The University has verified that there were no adjustments to grades based upon the gender of individuals in the class. While the professor’s stated intention of encouraging female students to go into the information sciences field may be laudable, his approach as described in his email was clearly unacceptable."
Think about how that works out for those girls when they graduate and try to get a job Manager sees they attended THAT university, assumes they probably can't program for shit and got their degrees as a freebie.
basing this entirely off that image with no otherbackground... there's a million red flags but it's not impossible she could one day be an example of a woman finding a place in the male dominated industry IT sector (rather than invading it).
consider a lot of males also give career advice, code in shitlangs, like food and have other non-technical interests
Logan Lopez
What is a food desert? I mean how is it different than a normal desert?
Joshua Hughes
Based Russians
Brody Diaz
A giant meme created by liberals to explain why some people are poor and fat and it's not their fault. The reasoning and logic is reddit tier, so everyone and their retarded child is able spout about it.
Kevin Baker
It's a neighborhood without any grocery stores within a certain radius. It's a "food desert" because of the lack of accessible food.
Andrew Myers
Name of professor please, we need to see if Jow Forums is right.
back in the earliest days of computing women made up approximately 30% of all programmers.
so 10 to 15% is not a bad status. these things wax and wain for reasons beyond our control or comprehension. dwelling on their cause is an exercise in futility and a waste of effort better spent on actually solving engineering problems. the more engineering problems that are solved the more spaces open up for new engineers
Owen Perry
Oh look, another Jow Forums bait thread.
Aiden Smith
Thanks for posting another stupid rant about women in tech using an example of one single guy (out of the population of 325 million americans) who literally just "floated an idea" and didnt even execute it. Now dumbasses here will believe there's some massive problem of unfair treatment for-or-against women.
Seriously do you get off on misleading people and wasting everyones time? Is that like a fetish or something?
Hudson Martin
>Think about how that works out for those girls when they graduate and try to get a job This is what I will never get. If they can't do what they need to do in school, how are they going to cope when they have to do the actual work? The teacher tries to make it seem like he's helping them, but the reality is he is setting them up to fail even worse.
Charles Miller
>Rebecca Garcia is an American computer programmer from New York City
Really? A programmer asking for tech support on twitter?
>Food studies topkek, only american education could achieve that
Blake Richardson
Shit's sexist as fuck. Can you imagine being one of the girls with a passing grade when you worked your ass off seeing dumbasses pass because vagina?
Isaiah Brown
Not horribly uncommon I think. I hear a lot of horror stories from sysadmins about the horrible things developers do and demand. Webdevs that trash production systems is all too common.
Justin Bennett
>dev evangelist starting off strong with a some s o y buzzword >javascript obviously, what else would a female coder do break those stereotypes gurl >PHP using a framework doesn't really count as knowing php >food deserts how come there's world hunger if there's food deserts out there? that's probably enouhg to feed the world population, right? oh wait she meant desserts >coding like a boss more s o y-approved phrases
i'm going to go on a limb here and say she can't do fizzbuzz
Disagree obviously, doesn't matter how much effort you put in if you don't understand the topic you should fail.
Charles Thomas
>how come there's world hunger if there's food deserts out there? that's probably enouhg to feed the world population, right? >oh wait she meant desserts No she didn't, she meant areas where there are no grocery stores
Blake Gomez
>implying quotas won't keep trash female devs 100% employed while simultaneously destroying the perception of and discrediting the achievements of solid female devs
Jonathan Nelson
Look at the state of cartoons now and tell me anyone gives a shit about quality any more.
Asher Wright
The only way to get actual support from a big tech company is to go through their PR department.
Kayden Lopez
don't understand about this shit, would someone explain?
Oliver Lewis
Trash "diverse" devs do stay hired on account of diversity but I've always seen them moved to project management or something where they don't cause much harm. In fact, they are fast-tracked there, it's almost like the bigger firms expect them to fail at development.
Anthony Wilson
Common around the world retard. That's the kinda course you take to become a chef.
Jace Phillips
Programmers even the likes of Linus Torvalds are not good at MIS
