Dartmouth continues to shower New Hampshire in glory. They’ve decided that women and minorities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and the solution is one hundred million in scholarships which, at least for now, are not available to white men.
The initiative will include “an undergraduate scholarship program,” “curricular innovation,” and “enhanced career and graduate school advising,” all with the goal of “advanc[ing] STEM participation and leadership of underrepresented groups,” according to the university’s news release.
Just a few observations.
Who decides who gets into Dartmouth and for which programs since its founding? Dartmouth.
Who decides if someone is eligible for assistance from Dartmouth up to a free ride at Dartmouth? Dartmouth.
Who decides if women or people of color are even interested in STEM fields as opposed to (say) gender studies? Women and people of color and the education industrial complex that claims ownership of them.
Who decides if women or people of color have the educational foundation to advance to a STEM field at a school like Dartmouth – assuming they are interested? The public schools or education infrastructure provide the groundwork, though (I think) we can all agree that most of the applicants will come from private schools.
Who decides who gets into those private schools? The answer has to be white men, but it is increasingly women but none of this matters because Dartmouth spends federal money and cannot nullify Title IX sex discrimination and Title VI race discrimination law.
I’d also add that according to “Mark Perry, a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, … Dartmouth is promoting a “false narrative”… “women are overrepresented in many STEM fields, including biology, health sciences, medical schools, and veterinary medicine.”
By women, does he mean “women” or women with a penis? It’s all very confusing, and therein lies another conundrum. It would be incredibly #woke for Dartmouth to select any number of qualified “women” with penises for a STEM-X scholarship. But what if all the women who applied were born men?
Could Dartmouth get reamed by the SJW, or is this one of those identity politics paradoxes?
