Prestige university finds insufficient "diversity" in physics, adds courses in diversity

An overwhelming percentage of players in the NBA and NFL are black.  After studying this lopsided result for three years, a panel of top ethicists, judges and politicians have concluded that this is clearly unfair, and "discriminatory," and have devised new rules to correct this obvious, egregious wrong.

Just kidding.  Obviously no one in his right mind would believe that.  It's absurd.

On the other hand, when the brilliant administrators at Stanford discovered that their physics faculty didn't have enough "diversity"--none--and that the number of black students enrolled in physics was far below their percentage of the total student body, they determined this was unfair, unreasonable and surely the result of some nefarious factor. 

There's a rumor that several faculty members suggested it was Trump's fault.

In any case, they've come up with a fix.  Cuz they're smaht, see?  The fix was announced in the official Stanford News:

"Students from all backgrounds and identities come to Stanford excited about physics, and this interest does not strongly depend on race or gender.

Really?  How about you define "strongly," asshole.

But we lose a larger number of Black, Latinx and Native students, as well as women of all races, in the first two years of undergraduate study,” said Risa Wechsler, a professor of physics at Stanford.

To address this problem, Wechsler and six other physics faculty members formed the Equity and Inclusion Committee, which...[formulated] a strategic plan...

Hey NOW you're talkin'!   Wechsler also joined a "leadership council" that gave her grant money to devise this "strategic plan" stuff.

Grant money, y'say.  Hmmm...never would have guessed that, eh citizen?  

So what was the fix?  Ah, glad you asked:  They created a new physics course.  Well, not actually real physics, but a course that "explores issues of diversity and culture...in physics":

Physics 93SI: Beyond the Laboratory: Physics, Identity and Society is a new student-taught course that explores issues of diversity and culture in physics

So instead of teaching, oh, maybe remedial algebra or beginning physics, the brainiacs at Stanford will simply have their students "explore issues of diversity and culture."

Ah.
 
The committee also created an "optional extension course."  Ah, surely THIS is the course that gets people qualified to pass regular physics courses, right?  Well, sort of.  Actually the course is described as

"students spend spring break developing an hour-long workshop for high school students while learning and applying lessons about inclusion in science."

See, Dr. Wechsler and comrades considered adding a remedial brush-up course or two, but a faculty member pointed out that calling a course "remedial" might hurt the feelings of students who needed to enroll in it.  Since protecting the self-esteem of minorities and women is now the top priority of every "woke" university, that simply wouldn't do.

Stanford is one of the most prestigious universities in the world.  Less-prestigious schools almost always end up following the lead of schools like Stanford, Harvard or Yale.  So you can expect to see more courses teaching, NOT actual academic content, but the importance of diversity, culture and "inclusion."

In physics.

But why would anyone expect this waste to stop there?  I'll bet the percentage of, say, black cell biologists, EE majors and organic chemistry PhDs  is way below their percentage in universities, let alone their percentage of the total population.  So I guess they need the same "NEW" courses in those areas too, eh?

It's funny:  Everyone in the country would howl with derision--justifiably--if some PhD proposed to, say, install a second, larger basket on bakkaball courts that only whites could score with.  But no one says a word about the silliness of teaching "diversity and culture" to minorities taking physics.