Thursday, April 02, 2015
Strategic Plan To Transition to Drafting Phase-Faculty & Staff News
Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon faculty, students and staff discussed strategies to encourage students to take intellectual risks, reduce the stress culture, and learn to work across disciplines, among several other topics, at the penultimate town hall meeting for the university strategic plan on March 25.
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I’m honestly really happy that all of these issues were addressed at the meeting. One of the most important things I think that was brought up was the fear that students have when taking courses with a difficult reputation outside of the major because of the risk that it could drop the GPA. I too, like the student mentioned, would be interested in taking a computer science course if I knew that I was taking it actually gain the knowledge and not be in fear of having the course hurt my overall GPA, something that is primarily based in my main courses in Drama. Another thing that I’m glad was brought up was the difficulty there is in pursuing cross-disciplinary study and research. Here at CMU, I really do feel as though each college operates independently without even being aware of what is happening in the others. Although it probably isn’t true, I feel as though it could be possible that the Mellon College of Science could be studying how the arts affects the brain without even asking the College of Fine Arts if they had any input.
I completely agree with the concerns of some student. I decided that I will never take a semester abroad because I don’t think I would be able to maintain my GPA and do that. There is also the monetary aspect but alas that’s another story. I feel like studying abroad is a great opportunity, but only if you make it one. I know personally that I wouldn’t do well studying abroad because it takes me a bit of time to become comfortable in new environments. Language barriers are also another concern of mine. I would love to go to France, or Switzerland, but I don’t speak any language other than English. And even then, my English is atrocious. Also, why would I go out of the country to learn at another school when I already spend a butt-load of money to train at one of the best Universities in America? I love the idea of study abroad but it doesn’t always make sense to do.
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