| I completely agree with Jersey44. Aside from the tension and stress, the lack of a safe environment in which to take risks, the obvious toxic element in such a program is the reality that one is playing musical chairs and for the sake of one's own interests must view others in one's class as competitors and not colleagues. This is the way of the world, but not the way of a healthy educational setting. Yuck. Samia, you are in a much better place!!!! If Uof Arizona continues to find that the BA students are as strong as the BFA ones who were admitted as freshmen, then either their audition process for freshmen is lacking or their freshman program is not advancing the students well...why split them and then reconfigure so dramatically? Why would anyone choose this? |