Biggest concern is lowering admission standards to admit more students--then the quality of student declines, as does the commitment of the student...more likely to transfer after 1-2 years, leaving hole in the tuition revenue, etc. It's a self-perpetuating cycle: higher admit rates, lower "exclusivity," poor retention, lower scoring opportunities for the ratings game.
I assume that your comment indicates a negative opinion that the preferred pronouns the speaker uses are problematic rather than simply claiming the commencement speaker uses pronouns. Either way, what does this have to do with the subject of this post? Or are you really intending to advocate for the policing of the use of such language on a forum that claims to support free speech? Does the commencement speaker not have a right to choose pronouns that reflect the speaker's self-understanding? Does the speaker doing so somehow impinge on your free speech right to see such actions as problematic, assinine, or idiotic in some way? Has the speaker actually singled you out on a public forum to do so as you have done in relation to the speaker?
Biggest concern is lowering admission standards to admit more students--then the quality of student declines, as does the commitment of the student...more likely to transfer after 1-2 years, leaving hole in the tuition revenue, etc. It's a self-perpetuating cycle: higher admit rates, lower "exclusivity," poor retention, lower scoring opportunities for the ratings game.
Take note: The Commencement speaker uses pronouns. I wonder if we will hear that as part of her introduction at the Commenceent.....
I assume that your comment indicates a negative opinion that the preferred pronouns the speaker uses are problematic rather than simply claiming the commencement speaker uses pronouns. Either way, what does this have to do with the subject of this post? Or are you really intending to advocate for the policing of the use of such language on a forum that claims to support free speech? Does the commencement speaker not have a right to choose pronouns that reflect the speaker's self-understanding? Does the speaker doing so somehow impinge on your free speech right to see such actions as problematic, assinine, or idiotic in some way? Has the speaker actually singled you out on a public forum to do so as you have done in relation to the speaker?