I can't imagine a person giving this literally a second thought. Who friggin' cares.
This reminds me of some manufactured controversy in the early 2000's when I was in school, where some institutions decided to change the terminology for hard drives to something other than "master" / "slave" designations, and people were all upset about "PC run amok" or whatever the term was.
I can't imagine a person giving this literally a second thought. Who friggin' cares. The term 1st Year has been around forever, people are still going to call people Freshmen anyway. Culture war distraction nonsense.
What a freaking joke of an institution our alma mater has become.
Yes, a trend started ….. checks notes ….. in 1998 by the “bastion of liberalism” University of South Carolina*
Regardless of there being a gender term within the word “freshmen”, schools have moved toward the term “first year” over 2+ decades in a push to better include transfer and non-traditional students in the university community. TCU may be making this announcement about a formal change, but they’ve effectively done this for years — i.e. the office of “First Year Experience.” Expanding programs historically reserved for “freshmen” to all “first year students” is proven to increase not only a sense of community and inclusion for all students, but also retention and persistence/graduation rates (thereby reducing debt without degree and positively impacting university recruitment and rankings).
Your incessant whining lacks context, reflects total ignorance, and is a desperate attempt to make literally everything all about your political persuasion and an outlet to express political rage.
Shut the scheiss up and go read something. Ignorance is a choice you have made, but it’s not one you have to keep making.
* See https://journals.psu.edu/mentor/article/view/61495/61147
honestly, take a lap.
Yep. You can take selected Harvard and MIT classes for free now. Proof of conceptConsidering a committee I’m on is having to write a justification for a proposed course and field of study that explains how the college experience would be more beneficial than learning the material via Skillshare I think we’ve turned a corner in education there is no going back from.
At what point does it make sense to email TCU / the chancellor to express the frustration with all this stupidity?
I feel like I used up all my good will with VBo bitching about baseball attendance (only for the team to completely blow it).
I have taken several mental laps around some of the completely moronic comments in this thread.
Dumb. Why would you give money at all? Athletics? Are you serious?Whatever justification given, it is just unnecessary. Not another dime to anything but athletics. What the hell has happened to common sense?!?
Please explain the money spent making this change and why it’s necessary. I would love to know and recognize you are far more plugged into these types of things.
Dumb. Why would you give money at all? Athletics? Are you serious?