Yu Huang-chieh, professor and head of the Department of Philosophy at Fu Jen Catholic University, recently posted an article on his Facebook page titled “the most humiliating day for the Department of Philosophy,” saying that this year the number of students applying for transfers from the Department of Philosophy to other departments reached 57, equivalent to the number of students in one class. This number has hit a historic high. He complained that the university entrance program can be likened to a big joke or a fraud, which has caused severe harm to academic departments that take their academic work seriously.
Yu said that 44 of the 57 students who applied for a transfer this year are first-year students, 12 are second-year students and one is a fourth-year student. When these students entered the university, 28 got admitted through applications, one through the Fanhsing university direct entrance program, two were overseas compatriot students assigned to this department, one was a transfer student from another department and 25 entered the department because their university entrance examination scores stood around the department’s level. Yu said this phenomenon proves that the existing multifaceted university entrance examinations, which were designed to allow students to enter their ideal departments, have completely failed.
He wrote that, during university admission interviews, students demonstrated their passion for philosophy with eloquence in front of admission committee members, but today these people are more like fraudsters.
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(Liberty Times, translated by Ethan Zhan)
輔仁大學哲學系教授兼系主任尤煌傑日前在臉書發文「一個令哲學系最不堪的日子」,直指輔大哲學系今年申請轉出的人數高達五十七人,相當於一個班級,是歷年之最。他感嘆,申請入學制度猶如一個天大笑話或詐騙案,嚴重破壞認真辦學的學術單位。
尤煌傑指出,今年輔大申請轉系的五十七人中,四十四人是一年級生,十二名是二年級生,一名是四年級生;這些學生入學時,有廿八名是申請入學,一名是繁星推薦、兩名是分發僑生、一名他系轉學生,廿五名為考試分發。「這個現象證明現在的多元入學考試、讓學生進入理想科系的設計完全破功。」
他寫道,當初申請入學面試時,學生們在考試委員面前以如簧之舌展示對哲學愛好,如今看來像詐騙集團。
(自由時報葉冠妤)
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A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
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