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大学预算削减是否正成为数学学科的威胁?附补充讨论

Are University Budget Cuts Becoming A Threat to Mathematics? with Additional Discussion

Edgar J. Fuller

AI总结:

该研究指出数学因跨学科实用性在高等教育中占据核心地位,但当前部分高校已不再具备这一特征,引出预算削减对数学学科威胁的讨论。

摘要:

数学作为一门研究学科,在高等教育中占据重要地位。部分由于其在其他学科中的实用性以及在学生学习中的作用,高等教育机构(IHEs)通常配备大量数学教师,不同职称和聘用体系下的教师在教学与科研上的侧重各有不同。大多数顶尖高等教育机构,尤其是州立赠地院校,拥有庞大的本科生群体修习数学课程,这类课程在很多情况下围绕微积分的广泛应用以及数学与科学、技术、工程领域的关联设置。这些关联使得数学系对大学而言不可或缺[引用olson2012engage],并凸显了数学在支撑高等教育各领域学生学业成功方面的关键作用[引用reinholz2020time、calcscience]。我们往往默认数学在本科阶段、以及研究型大学的研究生阶段具备这种核心地位,但对部分高等教育机构而言,这一特征已不复存在。

英文摘要:

Mathematics as an area of study occupies an important place in higher education. Due in part to its utility in other disciplines as well as its role in student learning, institutions of higher education (IHEs) often have large numbers of mathematics faculty with different balances of teaching and research in different ranks and appointment structures. Most flagship IHEs, especially state land-grant institutions, have large undergraduate populations taking mathematics courses in many cases built around the widespread use of calculus and the connections between mathematics and science, technology, and engineering. These connections have made mathematics departments essential to universities\cite{olson2012engage} and emphasized the critical role math plays in supporting student success \cites{reinholz2020time,calcscience} in all areas of post-secondary education. We tend to take that essential nature of mathematics at the undergraduate level, and for research universities at the graduate level, as a given, but that characterization no longer holds for some IHEs.

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