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A Graduate Program Works To Diversify The Science World

A Graduate Program Works To Diversify The Science World
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Inanllely Gonzalez, a first-year Ph.D student in Penn State's Organic Chemistry program, set up a synthesis experiment on the morning of Jan. 24 in a lab located in the Chemistry building on the University Park campus. Go to www.chem.psu.edu/ for more information about the undergraduate and graduate programs in Penn State's Dept. of Chemistry.
Inanllely Gonzalez, a first-year Ph.D student in Penn State's Organic Chemistry program, set up a synthesis experiment on the morning of Jan. 24 in a lab located in the Chemistry building on the University Park campus. Go to www.chem.psu.edu/ for more information about the undergraduate and graduate programs in Penn State's Dept. of Chemistry.

There is a widespread narrative in higher education that goes something like this: Colleges and universities have always accepted the best and brightest students; then, due to pressure from outside forces (some of them named "John F. Kennedy"), diversity was thrust upon the academy. In turn, schools meted out race-based scholarships, relaxed standards for certain students in order to fulfill quotas and — poof! — diversity. A constant and often unsubtle subtext of this narrative is that good old objective academic rigor has sometimes suffered in the name of manufactured, if well-meaning, multiculturalism.

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