On a note related to the previous entry, Inside Higher Ed had a longer story about Carl Wieman leaving Colorado for Canada (following in the footsteps of his post-docs?), another guy putting his money where his mouth is:
First, he contributed $250,000 of his Nobel Prize award to the Physics Education Technology Fund supporting classroom initiatives at CU-Boulder. He hoped it would prompt other donations, but the momentum never materialized.
Last year, during his sabbatical, Wieman wrote 35 proposals for funding for teaching projects. All he got was one small grant from the National Science Foundation to develop computer simulations. “That probably triples the unsuccessful proposals for physics research I’d written in my entire career,” Wieman says. “It seemed like I was somewhat naïve in thinking I could get more resources and attention to have a reasonably large impact in this area.”
I don’t really have much to say about this that I haven’t said before, but I thought it was worth passing on the link.
INERT INTELLIGENCE IS THE PARADIGM OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM!
Any course of study imposing objective criteria (especially arithmetic) is hate language targeted at celebrations of Peoples of Colour whose sacred cultures do not embrace the cold, devisive, and above all destructive Western impositions of literacy and numeracy.
“Physics for Diversity” One expects Head Start has a few $million to toss 180 degrees away from any functional student. “Physics as Ethnic Studies.” “Traditional African Physics.” And now… “FÃsica del barrio.” (La raza es su propia educación.)
Get yourself a social advocate. Allocate 20% of the swag to the social advocate’s tax-free company. Things will thereafter zoom along on a cushion of flowing folding green.
We are a nation of facade not substance. Only character matters! Picture a balloon with its skin being shaved off. There is so much volume – why suffer constraints of surface area?