Tuesday, May 17, 2022

U.S. Department of Energy: The other physics problem (skin color)

This propaganda and demagoguery is taxpayer funded! From "A joint Fermilab/SLAC publication"!

Keep politics and ideology out of science!

The misguided glorification of Historically Black Colleges or Universities in this article is more than curious! Nobody asks why are white students underrepresented at those higher education institutions! Certainly HBCUs have been a great achievement (e.g. Booker T. Washington) in the history of the education of black Americans, but they are a thing of the past and they perpetuate racial division!

"... “We don’t have five Black women physicists anywhere working together.” ...
In 2020, there were 101 active HBCUs [Historically Black College or University] in the United States. Thirty of them offer a bachelor’s degree in physics, and 11 of those offer a master’s degree in physics. Just four of them—Alabama A&M University, Florida A&M University, Hampton University and Howard University—offer general physics PhD programs. HBCUs granted only an estimated 11 of the 1,910 physics PhDs awarded to US graduate students in 2018 and 2019. ...
Advocates for recruiting and retaining more Black students into physics often discuss how to balance support for Black students at HBCUs like North Carolina A&T, and at Primarily White Institutions like UNC Chapel Hill.  ...
Black students, especially Black women, are vastly underrepresented in physics. ...
“HBCUs get the broadest breadth of the African American community,” says Hakeem Oluseyi, president of the National Society of Black Physicists."

The other physics problem | symmetry magazine Black physicists say efforts to recruit and retain more Black students must concentrate on challenges they face at both Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Primarily White Institutions.

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