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If you don’t have haters then you’re not doing something right…
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That needs to get cleaned up in wiki.
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Aren’t you allowed to see the history of the wiki? We can find out who edited it.
Yes, you are. Looks like edit in that section may have been done by
someone named “redraiderengineer”. So TT person or someone that wants to
implicate them. Really bush league when the cited references are opinion
pieces.
Seems like a pretty clear violation of the Neutral Point of View guideline.
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Probably saw engineering school rankings and couldn’t stop theirself…
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Gotta love the raider hate. They are jealous bigtime lol
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Weak stuff
Thanks to the coog that got this corrected, whoever you are!
Thanks also to @Coogmeister for identifying this.
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The long edit was cited from an article by a professor at the University.
That professor wasn’t wrong. Yes, the rankings have gone up, but the University has done what it could to game the numbers (like all other schools). The talk is about the same megadonors who wish to keep funding athletics (and the ones that Pez was rumored to have requested bailouts from). Academic requirements have gone down, and passing students is an encouragement, even if they are not deserved.
In some cases, for very competitive and now over-enrolled majors (such as computer science, which has doubled since 2018), the standard to get in is very low. The school knows the demand of such majors, and simply lets students, some who might not make the cut past graduation, let alone the first few classes, get into the program anyway.
The over-enrollment of CS majors actually HURT the ranking. The program’s ranking has gone down, out of the top 100.
The GSW’s ranking, ever since the demotion of their former dean, went down by over 50 spots, tossing it from the top 25.
So the UH CS department is doing the same trick the TAMU engineering department did.
UH doesn’t have a “Pre-Computer Science” program. CS is in NSM, not Cullen. You can switch into other majors, though. You get in as a freshman or a transfer, you’re in the program.
Last I heard, when TAMU started 25x25, there was a bit of an exodus of students from their engineering school to Cullen.
ETAM has pushed a ton of talented and qualified individuals Cullen COE’s way. One of the better things to happen to UH.