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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can read about their failed science department here: https://www.cmcforum.com/post/disintegrated-sciences[/quote]

Yes it's a mess.[/quote]
What about it? They’ve hired many faculty, they’re opening a nice new building this year, and it sets them apart from Pomona and Mudd who obviously have better science departments.[/quote]

[b]Pomona and Mudd have outstanding science departments. CMC kids used to be able to fulfill their science distribution requirements there. [/b]Now they have to take weird interdisciplinary classes they are not interested in at the new integrated science center. The building looks great, but the substance of the curriculum is lacking IMO.

I am a biology professor and one of my colleagues interviewed for a position recently and she had several question marks about both the vision and practicalities. She's going to a UC instead.[b] I do wonder what the school was thinking[url] and especially since their current head has announced his resignation and that he will leave next year. Their new leader whenever that person is identified will have to figure out the vision and execution for this new direction. I think it was a very costly and weird place for them to invest.[/quote]
The reason they’re doing it so differently is CMC is thinking about the business practical side of science- not the actual science itself. You still have the option to take Pomona, Mudd, or Keck (department of natural sciences now) classes in science, but the purpose of a cmc integrated sciences grad isn’t to go to Pfizer as an immunologist, but rather to do operations research, for example.  Their students are likely going into data analysis with a decent background in markov chains, neural networks, etc. CMC has always been more interested in “BIG DATA” than science, it’s their vibe. As a scientist, it’s annoying, but we need those types of people in science research.[/quote]

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