tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post5310462660335651864..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Everything Has ChangedBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-26324215057922919462015-10-21T18:27:40.605-07:002015-10-21T18:27:40.605-07:00I think a lot of administrators would like to pres...I think a lot of administrators would like to preside over STEM institutes with a service-only humanities/social sciences division (with maybe a few exceptions for especially-popular and broad-ranging h/ss majors, e.g. communications and psychology). I also suspect that these things are, to some extent, cyclical, and that schools that actually achieve that aim will lose some (but probably only some) students when humanities and social sciences come (somewhat more) back in vogue. <br /><br />In the meantime, the sort of situation you describe (including the badly-skewed period/geography divisions, born out of entirely good intentions and the demographics of what specialties were most likely to be hired when) is going to become increasingly common. I suppose another approach might be to keep the time-distribution requirements, and form some sort of online consortium so that students could take a class at whatever school was offering it the semester they needed it. But that's a lot of work, and coordination, and administrators don't much like the idea of online classes that would allow their students to register elsewhere (as opposed to vice versa). Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.com