Posted on 01/12/2024 6:48:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
A top university in the United States is now offering a class called “Afrochemistry,” with the intention of explaining alleged “inequities in chemistry and chemical education.”
As the Daily Caller reports, the class will be taught at Rice University from January 8th to April 19th, 2024. The class has no final exam.
“Students will apply chemical tools and analysis to understand Black life in the U.S. and students will implement African American sensibilities to analyze chemistry,” the course description states. “Diverse historical and contemporary scientists, intellectuals, and chemical discoveries will inform personal reflections and proposals for addressing inequities in chemistry and chemical education.”
“This course will be accessible to students from a variety of backgrounds including STEM and non-STEM disciplines,” the description continues. “No prior knowledge of chemistry or African American studies is required for engagement in this course.”
The announcement of the course led to backlash and mockery from academics and others, lamenting the latest example of politics and racial identity infiltrating a subject that has nothing to do with either. A Wall Street Journal op-ed said that such classes “are beginning to appear almost everywhere and are getting support and encouragement from the scientific establishment.”
Jerry Coyne, a biologist and professor emeritus at Chicago University, said that the course might as well have been advertised as “The Study of Black Lives Matter,” and denounced the class as an example of how the field of science has become poisoned by racial identity politics and “progressive activism.”
A private university founded in 1912, Rice University was ranked 17th on the list of best “national universities” in the country by U.S. News’ 2024 rankings.
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Give him a copy of this article... maybe he’ll further revise his Top Picks.
“Rice University”
White Rice or Brown Rice?
Best comment of this thread yet.
Dr. Johnson needs an AI plagiarism body cavity search.
Literally what?
While not an alumnus, I did work there for a dozen years.
Rice also just hired/promoted its first black university president.
The university also removed the statue to the founder (William Marsh Rice) from the academic quad, and disinterred his remains, due to his “racist” past during the US Civil War in which he made the money that ended up founding the university (after he was murdered by his butler!).
Surprisingly, Rice athletes graduate in the 95%+ range.
And not just in underwater basket weaving, but real actual degrees.
We will benefit from their understanding of a kinder gentler meth?
“Race is not an issue until someone decides to make it an issue.
So of course they do just that.”
If you hire enough diversity you need to have something for them to teach. Hence the rise of Grievance courses that teach victimhood instead of anything useful. I wonder if it counts as a “science” course toward their degree.
My daughter is a faculty member in a science dept at a prestigious university on the Left coast. The school has an agreement with a historically Black college to take interns over the summer to get experience and credit. Two labs in her dept were pressured to take these interns. They both were unable to be complete the most rudimentary tasks without assistance even after being shown how to do them multiple times. Even weighing out materials to make solutions was beyond them. They ended up just hanging out in the lab or cafeteria with their phones and then at the end of the internship had the nerve to ask for recommendations.
Ping!
Yep, right there tells it all.
I suspect Rices’s standards aren’t the same as 40 years ago or even 10 years ago..
It’s a troubling sign for the future when people find it hard to tell the difference between parody and reality.
People pay $55K tuition per year for this?
The insanity at these institutions has to be from some sort of infectious disease targeting the brains of liberals and dissolves all rational thought.
Thanks for the leg work...
When I was hired, it was harder to get a job than it was to be accepted to the student rolls.
Around 13.5% of the student applications were accepted, whereas about 8% of the employee applicants were actually hired.
But, that was almost 20 years ago.
They’ve added two new residences, and increased the freshman class by at least 1,500 since that time.
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