I encourage you to look at the quality of instruction in the math department for courses required of freshman engineering students. Typical scenarios include minimal English skills and/or very new instructors. The freshman engineering students are paying a higher tuition but receiving the same instructors as liberal arts students. It seems like the engineering college has been using these course as “weed out” courses instead of seeing the need to improve instruction quality.

Secondly, the focus on making sure the students know how to get the most out of their humanities/social sciences is important. It would be good input to this process to find out how many engineers had to take extra classes because the automated systems and/or advisers did not guide them in the right directions. In general, those paying the tuition don’t like to have these sorts of things crop up that cause a student to have to spend an extra term to get when good advising or more guided graduation requirement tools could have helped. In particular, I don’t believe that the current tools point out courses that would apply for both humanities and social science requirements.

I am not using my real name as some do not like to have the obvious pointed out. I did not see a means to send in comments to someone in particular.