Can someone chance me for Purdue EA? This next week is going to be so stressful. Purdue is my first choice.
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Wowā¦this is a bit off topic but have any of you seen the 2022 Open Letter from Mitch Daniels? Read the āWhere Are All the Men?ā headline and paragraph. Not sure if I even want to consider going here if I am admitted for CS as a woman.
Just curious as to what you are referring to? Purdue actively recruits women in engineering and CS. There are way more women in honors college than men but in the end, the point is valid that more men apply to engineering and CS majors than women.
"we gave back the immense societal gains of that climb because men stopped holding up their end"
Are we implying men have to be the majority and that should continue to be upheld?
"Purdue cannot solve this looming national problem, but sending out thousands of exceptional young engineers, computer scientists, and other technology experts who happen to be men is a contribution few other institutions are making."
Why is it a ānational problemā that more women are pursuing jobs in tech/engineering, and why does that āproblemā that needs fixing?
I donāt think any of this was necessary in the letter, quite frankly.
I read it as the opposite, that the NYT article that was sited implied that men didnāt want to marry āupā to a more educated partner, so that somehow the onus was on women. Daniels was calling BS on that.
And that the second quote, I read as the university is committed to producing high quality engineers of any gender. We need more engineers in the US. That is an industry problem that needs addressing.
I am not sure what the issue here is. Daniels is simply stating an obvious, empirical fact: men and women self-select into different fields in college.
Well, Mitch Daniels definitely comes across as the conservative that he is. Heās also notoriously unconventional and the letter reinforces that as well. This letter notwithstanding, students at Purdue seem to really like his innovativeness and approachability.
Purdue isnāt trying to strive for gender parity in engineering like MIT and CMU do. However, he states that āour 26% female share of engineering students is one of the nationās highest.ā Thatās laudable. Itās true that he isnāt trying to recruit more men to nursing, pharmacy or veterinary medicine.
The letter didnāt improve my feelings about Purdue or Mitch Daniels. He seems smug when talking about the struggles of private universities ā discounting and closures. Many of those closures appeared to be religiously affiliated colleges.
Compare with my alma materās president, who has two grad degrees from Purdue. Iād like to hear how Purdue is addressing the overcrowding dorms from 2021. How is it maintaining reasonably sized classrooms with the largest freshman class in the Big 10? What are the concessions that Purdue has to make in order to keep tuition and R&B the same for 10+ years?
If the statistic about only enrolling 100 African-Americans is true, I counted roughly 70 in the football, menās and womenās basketball rosters. In the football program, the top major is Selling & Sales Management. I saw three engineering majors and a few Polytechnic majors. This isnāt a Division III top-ranked LAC or STEM college so thatās understandable.
Purdue is doing many things very well and is ahead of the national enrollment decline with flat tuition and higher rankings.
I think heās saying highly educated women wonāt date down. They have fought valiantly for their rights to education, social and political equality, and vocations that were once considered only for men. Now that women have reached that pinnacle, it would be a shame if there were no available and eligible āproperā partners for them because the men have dropped the ball by not pursuing higher careers any longer. However, Purdue to rescue ā¦ they are turning out great men at a higher level than other universities! (And women too). Itās a win/win!
You will find this at every institution in STEM-focused curriculum. It is not the fault of the school that there is predominance of one gender in specific fields. It is stated that Purdue is a force trying to skew the imbalance in STEM. You cannot forsake the quality of education you would be missing from this consistently high-ranking STEM school if you chose not to attend because of something you will find at every institution.
