BMI Graduation Requirement
BMI Graduation Requirement
Various Universities has established a necessity that first-year students who get on campus with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher must either lower their BMI below thirty or take a one-unit course called "Fitness for Life" in order to graduate. In an attempt to combat obesity, students’ body mass indexes are being supervised as part of a graduation requirement at some universities. About twenty students are expected to take a one-credit gym class in order to graduate because their BMIs are over 30.
The new policy is making mixed reviews amongst faculty in the health, physical education and recreation department responsible for it. Finally, even casual research into the history of the BMI indicates its distasteful links to Victorian-era social Darwinism. It is sure that people experience the tenets of this odious theory, and that they can then realize why It find it humorous that a university with a predominantly African American student body would support and use BMI to evaluate its students' worth.