Feds Spend $149,921 for LGBT Students to ‘Feel Comfortable’ in Engineering Class
Grant: Engineering programs full of straight students are ‘less creative’
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
September 27, 2016 4:59 am
The National Science Foundation is spending roughly $150,000 to make college engineering programs “inclusive” to LGBT students.
Researchers who were awarded money for a new study this month will hold focus groups with lesbian and gay students in Massachusetts to learn how engineering culture can be changed to make LGBT students “feel comfortable.”
“This project aims to understand the conditions that help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) engineering students feel comfortable in their educational institutions,” a grant for the project states. “Engineering schools are notoriously inhospitable to LGBTQ people, with costly results for LGBTQ students and society.”
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