Hundreds of University of California faculty members are calling on the university system to require standardized math test scores from applicants to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors.
Nearly 1,000 faculty members have signed the open letter. More than 200 of them are from UC San Diego.
The UC Board of Regents voted to eliminate the requirement in 2020. In their letter, the faculty call it “a temporary measure that has now become a permanent vulnerability...”
“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics while simultaneously teaching the material students need for sciences, engineering, economics, and other quantitatively demanding fields,” the letter reads.
Faculty have reported that students being admitted are unprepared for even basic classes: one faculty report last year saying that the number of students placed in classes to remediate elementary and middle-school math before they could take precalculus increased to 8.5% from 0.5% between 2020 and 2025. Several universities which dropped testing requirements in 2020 have already reinstituted testing over the last several years including MIT, Dartmouth, and Yale.
Same with the anti trans crap where I know he can read the science.
I know I'll be modded down for this, but he is right about the trans issue. It's a social contagion, just like the satanic panic, the panic over witches, in colonial times, and countless other social contagions throughout recorded history. Rare genetic anomalies do nothing to change that. I would strongly recommend the book "Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds." Fads and social contagions have been going on for as long as recorded history, and the current trans mania will eventually come to an end. It's already been coming to an end in Europe for years, where these treatments first took off. Clinics aiding transition are being shut down left and right, and the professionals who worked there are speaking out. In the future people will look back and wonder how we gave drugs that sterilize children and cause numerous health issues (not going through puberty is *far* from harmless) without giving them extensive mental therapy first. There are many de-transitioned victims speaking out. Poke your head outside of your bubble. I treat all people with respect until they prove they do not deserve it, and I will gladly use any pronoun or name that someone prefers. I don't hate trans, I don't fear them (transphobia), and neither does Richard Dawkins. That said, he's obviously wrong about AI here - nobody is perfect.
The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.