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| Dec 12, 2021 at 14:54 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | Also, I've never seen the multiple-AA's racket, so that may be unique to your institution. At my school students do need to declare a single major, and matriculation to the connected senior colleges is only guaranteed with the degree. | |
| Dec 11, 2021 at 17:05 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | Thanks for quoting me. :-) As a fellow community college teacher, I agree with 80% of what you've said. A thing I'd differ with would be: "Excluding someone from majoring in math at a community college would be sort of silly." Now, we absolutely get students who are witless enough as to lack 4th-grade arithmetic skills and still register as a math major. In fact, admin has forced us to mangle our offerings to guarantee a pathway for such students to a math degree in 2 years. It's greatly damaged scheduling and resources for our department; not excluding such students has caused a lot of harm. | |
| Dec 9, 2021 at 23:57 | comment | added | Steve Shipway | I think the OP is not suggesting excluding someone from a Welding course if they can't do algebra, as Algebra is not a prerequisite. However this same person could be excluded from a Physics course until they have reached the required Algebra level. Presumably the college would also offer remedial Algebra course for this purpose... | |
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| S Dec 9, 2021 at 22:28 | history | answered | user150183 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |