Originally Posted by passthepotatoes
I'm not at all sure how diversity bashing posts are on topic for a gifted education board.

Perhaps you all have forgotten the youtube sensation of a UCLA student video last year.

Agreed. I know way too little about UC to really criticize their choice in budget cuts. My own alma matter choose not to give tenure to two very outstanding professors (one in a foreign language and the other worked in a hard science) due to budget cuts. It wasn't because the professors were inadequate or that the fields they worked in were useless (quite the opposite!) but there was simply not a large demand on that campus for their respective areas. I have no clue what most UC students major in but I don't think it's highly unlikely that more students could be getting degrees that relate to some sort of diversity. Obviously, they wouldn't be people who would be trying to get jobs in computer related subjects but could possibly be trying to become lawyers, psychologists, or teachers in their respective fields. Also, I could certainly see the use in a degree like that now in CA considering that you do have quite a bit of diversity in general there...

I don't see the connection to giftedness here at all since you have children who can be gifted in languages/humanities and/or in math/science. Not all gifted children will want to become computer science majors...