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Message: [QUOTE="Rocktheworld, post: 2561218, member: 5037"] Funny that the first interviewee is a Speech-Language Hearing Sciences major (as was I from '10-'12). I never felt anywhere close to undervalued or neglected. A lot of these majors in CLAS don't take anywhere close to a full 4 years. That major in particular essentially doesn't start until your junior year with 3000 level classes. I also thought it was rich coming from her about the job market; audiology and speech-language pathology are rated as top 10 career fields very frequently between need, stress, work, pay, and reward. And it's the program's responsibility to prepare its students for the next step in their specific academic/professional tracks ("how to present their knowledge and skills acquired in their college careers"? WTF?) not the university's. The only non-stem undergrad research concerns I can see would be in Psych because of the very real requirements there to advance to grad school/PhD programs. In other behavioral science fields like mine, you have all of grad school to do research; and many fields such as mine require those advanced degrees anyway. And I have no problem with them building a new dorm and mini-campus more focused on STEM. We want to draw not only student talent, but faculty talent as well. We want to have the best facilities for research. Railing against this sounds like basketball people railing against UConn taking football seriously. We did that far too late and look where we are now. We don't want that to happen on the grander scale of the university. This is a response to the market, and it's not a universities problem. The developed world as a whole is shifting in ways that require more and more STEM workers. Then the rest of the article is just whining. Not shocked such a short-sighted article and quotes were written by and came from undergrads. [/QUOTE]

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