{"id":1679115,"date":"2022-10-08T06:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1679115"},"modified":"2022-10-08T06:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T10:24:50","slug":"feds-pay-100k-to-train-students-on-making-them-agents-of-charge-in-diversity-equity-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-pay-100k-to-train-students-on-making-them-agents-of-charge-in-diversity-equity-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Pay $100k to Train Students on Making Them &#8220;Agents of Charge&#8221; in &#8220;Diversity, Equity, Inclusion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffeds-pay-100k-to-train-students-on-making-them-agents-of-charge-in-diversity-equity-inclusion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1679115&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><em>By Casey Harper (The Center Square)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A top federal health research agency awarded more than $100K in taxpayer dollars for diversity and equity training for grad students to make them \u201cagents of change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Institutes of Health allocated $103,380 via a federal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/search\/FGxAjxRLm0-7iItpqV1wDA\/project-details\/10606407#description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>grant<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to train students at the the NIGMS T32 predoctoral training program in Molecular and Cellular Biology at UC Davis in equity and inclusiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Federal documents detailing the grant show it allots the money for students to lead equity and inclusivity training for their classmates at UC Davis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/bizarre-documentary-showcases-affluent-white-women-paying-to-be-called-racists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bizarre Documentary Showcases Affluent White Women Paying To Be Called Racists<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect that our novel curriculum will significantly improve mentorship and DEIA [diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility] awareness across a broad range of graduate students in biological sciences,\u201d reads the project description. \u201cOur practical focus aims to empower them to become agents of change, leading to a renewed focus on sustaining a climate of equity, inclusivity, respect, and justice in our institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The funding will create a 10-week course for graduate students called, \u201cMentoring Up in an Equitable and Inclusive manner.\u201d The grant says the plan is that the program will affect the broader academic community at the campus<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026graduate curricula often fail to sufficiently acknowledge that our society carries within it historical and deep-rooted injustices and biases,\u201d the report description reads. \u201cThis may lead students from backgrounds and communities who suffered from biases and injustices to feel less supported, reduce their sense of belonging, and hamper their growth as valued members of the scientific community.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>Critics argue the program is a distraction from medical research and training that should be the students\u2019 focus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis grant program distracts from the purpose for which students are studying \u2014 to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in their field,\u201d said Jonathan Butcher, a policy expert at the Heritage Foundation. \u201cThis grant description is saturated in identity politics and racial buzzwords. It will not help molecular biology students to learn molecular biology if they sit through sessions telling them that they have \u2018deep-rooted biases.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/ethnic-studies-promote-antisemitism-bigotry-in-u-s-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethnic Studies Promote Antisemitism, Bigotry in U.S. Schools<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Butcher also argued taxpayers should not be footing the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaxpayers should reject the idea that students should be thrown off their studies for a project like this, and they should also be asking why students should be part of a diversity training programs that have not demonstrated positive impact on participants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s director, Professor Frederic Chedin, did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Casey Harper (The Center Square) A top federal health research agency awarded more than $100K in taxpayer dollars for diversity and equity training for grad students to make them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1679117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1679117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}