Although @elonmusk didn't recommended this on X yet.
Have to say it's a worth learning course for undergrads.
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unironically I believe you can teach most of basic category theory (up to yoneda and adjunctions) on a single lecture to any audience of math undergrads. I am yet to run this experiment
I think its possible to teach set theory, topology, algebra, algebraic topology, differential geometry, category theory, homological algebra and higher category theory in a single hour lecture with zero examples to an audience of 160 iq shape rotators.
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its wild that relaxing standards is on the table while ivies went the other direction
feeeels like a bet that undergrads wont notice
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Bro is still pissed about getting his ass kicked by undergrads with purple hair
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Agreed that going all the way through to the PhD can really rack up the debt and as far as I know there aren't great outcomes data for that (the way there are for first-time undergrads).
Having said that, if I knew a student going to an UG program and they could get into Harvard I'd say yes all day every day. PhD in the humanities? Less clear...
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Surrey Uni is turning to Uni of choice for children of Nigerian presidents. Yusuf Buhari and his sister, children of late President Muhammadu Buhari did their undergrads there as well!
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President Bola Tinubu’s son Olayinka bags a Master’s degree from the University of Surrey, UK
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This is true, and it gets at the nub of the universities’ real problem: For several decades, they have been gradually abandoning their mission. They have transformed themselves into glorified strip malls — abandoning their core curricula while allowing undergrads to piece together academic programs that flatter their vocational or identitarian proclivities. (What is the role of the university if not to tell young people, who know nothing, which books are more important than others?)
Meanwhile, they have encouraged the rise of an activist element on campus that, to an extent, camouflages the true role of the university today, which is not to transmit knowledge but reel in grants, mostly federal. And, by jacking up fees astronomically (presumably to fund the administrative bloat they’ve failed to rein in), they have made it increasingly difficult for the middle and working classes to send their kids there; they have facilitated their own evolution from university to credential factory, alienating themselves from large swathes of America.
The first few things universities could do to start to reclaim their status is reinstate standardized tests in admissions; insist on truly race-blind admissions and hiring practices; slash administrative overhead and downsize their footprint while dramatically reducing student fees; and hire masters-level instructors to teach undergrads a traditional Western core curriculum that prioritizes the inculcation of critical faculties over political or personal vision quests. (This will become even more important, more “useful,” as the machines do more and more thinking for us, threatening our ability to govern ourselves.)
Conservatives often criticize universities for failing to prepare students for jobs.
But that's like criticizing a library for failing to function as a gym.
The purpose of a university was never vocational training. It was always the pursuit and transmission of knowledge.
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Only 7% of undergrads are international students. The bulk of their revenue is undergrads from the US
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Only 7% percent of the undergrads in the US are international students. The letter says that undergrad tuition is the bulk of their revenue. So no it is not the international students actually.
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Not even close. In the letter they cite undergrad tuition as the main revenue source. International students only make up 7% of undergrads at universities in the US. Foreign students get significantly cheaper undergrad degrees in their home countries.
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Becoming a 'millions must go' guy but I'm referring explicitly to politics undergrads
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Women are 65% of undergrads. Until I see you doing something about that you can stick the above stat right up your arse. And I might add if women are only 25% of senior leadership in academia after 25 years of industrial cheating in their favour maybe they should try harder.
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mas nakakapressure pala pag puro reviewees na yung nasa tl ko huhu finding #bsa undergrads lets be moots pls pls
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Education is what you make of it. I've studied and taught undergrads in both Indian and American universities. The facility is similar. The opportunities are similar. What differs is the mentality.
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pabloperez retweeted
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One day, I’ll be standing in an auditorium full of undergrads teaching them about Nazism and Zionism under the same module.
I’ll show them a documentary about May 26th 2024 - when Israel dropped several 2 thousand ton bombs on sleeping refugees in a tent, the students will lament on how the world could possibly remain silent if we had video footage from months of similar carnage.
We’ll sociologically analyze how global consent and complicity is manufactured through propaganda, and then students will be asked to write a 1000 word essay on the fake beheaded babies story.
And this is how history simply repeats itself, unless the cycle is broken by a few brave souls.
Are you on of them?
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You should look into a book called evidence that demands a verdict by Josh McDowell. He was in atheist who sent out to prove all of the "contradictions" in the Bible with a team of undergrads back in the '70s. I'm sure you can guess what happened, but read the book anyway
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In Cuba I got lots of reading every week combined with lots of lectures (often good ones!) interspersed with professor led seminar classes to make sure we were keeping up with readings.
Lectures gave undergrads a framework, readings gave their understanding texture/dimension
In general, US profs assign far more pages of readings than European profs. When I taught in France undergrads relied much more on lectures than reading assignments—40 pages of assigned reading was normal. Assigning lots of reading works if the students read it but often it shows that profs are insecure of their ability to get through a 90 minute class on their own if necessary.
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mino, CPA 🌅 retweeted
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Open for those currently residing within Metro Manila. See link for further terms & conditions.
Those who are qualified and interested may enter until June 18, 2026, 12PM only.
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John Wilkins retweeted
In general, US profs assign far more pages of readings than European profs. When I taught in France undergrads relied much more on lectures than reading assignments—40 pages of assigned reading was normal. Assigning lots of reading works if the students read it but often it shows that profs are insecure of their ability to get through a 90 minute class on their own if necessary.
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A Berkeley history professor said he’s gone from assigning 100 pages of reading per week to 35.
Another “said the earliest version of the…course he taught required seven full books, while his most recent iteration exclusively consisted of excerpts.”
“We are now reaching a crisis point where if the number (of pages) goes down further, it’s unclear to me whether my discipline of history can really be taught,” the first one said.
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Spent 10 mins explaining "work from home" to my campus intern, who asked if I also "work from dorm" when she heard my old job description. Turns out remote work is not a universal concept for undergrads
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