Lots of great content - Sowell, MacDonald, etc. Aesthetics could be improved, if only boxes around the slides. At first, wasn't quite sure what I was looking at.
This has been going on for decades, but unfortunately the author is missing the fact that HR, and other administrative departments are making these guidelines to fill quotas, ignoring the fact that many departments in the humanities and social sciences already have more women than men employed there. And they look at STEM differently because it seems there is a so-called imbalance in numbers. Ignoring the fact, that most Chemistry, Physics, Engineering majors at undergraduate institutions in the USA are men, because the women CHOOSE other majors.
I have seen as a teaching professor, teaching chemistry over the last 30 years in the USA and internationally is that those students who read the book, do enough homework problems on their own, and ask me for help for material they do not understand. And most of the people that do all three are guys.
But, unfortunately, in many Biology department major requirements, they decrease the courses in mathematics, Chemistry and Physics, because those courses require critical thinking, and by most of their students are viewed as "too hard", so the chemistry and math departments are either asked or demanded to make their courses "easier". "dumbed down", so the other majors that people pick are more easily achievable with the GPA they think they "deserve".
So, when the GREs and MCATs come, most of those students find themselves woefully unprepared, so that graduate schools have few American students applying for their openings, and when international "people of color" are available to fill those TA or RA positions, they are chosen over qualified white American males in particular.
It came to a point in my career as a Chemistry, to recommend to my male Chemistry students to go work in industry, instead of even considering grad school unless they only want to do underpaid unappreciated research/ It is often a vain hope now they might get a tenure track position of which openings are opening advertising for DEI graduates, in other words, saying "white men don't bother applying".
But, my first experience in this area, was way back in 1978, I had a summer chemist job at DuPont, and one of my chemistry goals was to eventually work the DuPont Experimental Station, as my father had worked for DuPont for 20 years starting as an engineer. I went to a recruiting fair, because for good chemistry students they had a recruiting tool of following someone they liked from college, through grad school, and then eventually hiring them when they earned their advanced degree. Well, my hopes were dashed when I met with one of their recruiters, who told me, "Gene, you have two strikes against you, you are white and male", at the end of our chat. I then left essentially saying to myself "f*ck them", I guess I will have to make my own path. I have no regrets as to where that led in my academic pursuits. and work experiences, but I am certain I had a much better set of colleagues who hired me in spite of my "handicaps".
But, one thing I noticed quickly on entering grad school, is how few white males from the United States who were part of the graduate student pool. Even in recruiting, American white males were discriminated against, chose other fields, or decided to work instead after college.
Lots of great content - Sowell, MacDonald, etc. Aesthetics could be improved, if only boxes around the slides. At first, wasn't quite sure what I was looking at.
This has been going on for decades, but unfortunately the author is missing the fact that HR, and other administrative departments are making these guidelines to fill quotas, ignoring the fact that many departments in the humanities and social sciences already have more women than men employed there. And they look at STEM differently because it seems there is a so-called imbalance in numbers. Ignoring the fact, that most Chemistry, Physics, Engineering majors at undergraduate institutions in the USA are men, because the women CHOOSE other majors.
I have seen as a teaching professor, teaching chemistry over the last 30 years in the USA and internationally is that those students who read the book, do enough homework problems on their own, and ask me for help for material they do not understand. And most of the people that do all three are guys.
But, unfortunately, in many Biology department major requirements, they decrease the courses in mathematics, Chemistry and Physics, because those courses require critical thinking, and by most of their students are viewed as "too hard", so the chemistry and math departments are either asked or demanded to make their courses "easier". "dumbed down", so the other majors that people pick are more easily achievable with the GPA they think they "deserve".
So, when the GREs and MCATs come, most of those students find themselves woefully unprepared, so that graduate schools have few American students applying for their openings, and when international "people of color" are available to fill those TA or RA positions, they are chosen over qualified white American males in particular.
It came to a point in my career as a Chemistry, to recommend to my male Chemistry students to go work in industry, instead of even considering grad school unless they only want to do underpaid unappreciated research/ It is often a vain hope now they might get a tenure track position of which openings are opening advertising for DEI graduates, in other words, saying "white men don't bother applying".
But, my first experience in this area, was way back in 1978, I had a summer chemist job at DuPont, and one of my chemistry goals was to eventually work the DuPont Experimental Station, as my father had worked for DuPont for 20 years starting as an engineer. I went to a recruiting fair, because for good chemistry students they had a recruiting tool of following someone they liked from college, through grad school, and then eventually hiring them when they earned their advanced degree. Well, my hopes were dashed when I met with one of their recruiters, who told me, "Gene, you have two strikes against you, you are white and male", at the end of our chat. I then left essentially saying to myself "f*ck them", I guess I will have to make my own path. I have no regrets as to where that led in my academic pursuits. and work experiences, but I am certain I had a much better set of colleagues who hired me in spite of my "handicaps".
But, one thing I noticed quickly on entering grad school, is how few white males from the United States who were part of the graduate student pool. Even in recruiting, American white males were discriminated against, chose other fields, or decided to work instead after college.