U. Maryland professor gets $600k grant to make math more ‘diverse’ and ‘equitable.’
A University of Maryland professor emeritus has received $600,000 from the National Science Foundation to make math departments at American colleges more “diverse” and “equitable.”
UMD’s Scott Wolpert and three other “project managers” will use the funds “to provide diversity, equity and inclusion training to six consultants from mathematics and statistics departments at collegiate-level institutions across the country,” The Diamondback reports.
The two-year-long project’s goal is to help math departments “provide a more welcoming, diverse space.” According to the report, in 2022 three-fourths of undergraduate math degrees went to men and 40 percent to white people.
Nobody actually believes this garbage, but for mid-six figures, they’ll happily sell the hell out of it — and destroy their own institutions in the process.
by Stephen Green