Gov. grants $150K to researchers studying how to make LGBT engineering students ‘feel comfortable’
The National Science Foundation has awarded researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute nearly $150,000 to study how to make LGBT students “feel comfortable” in their engineering classes — because, the study’s abstract says, “[e]ngineering schools are notoriously inhospitable to LGBTQ people.”
The Washington Free Beacon reports that the study researchers also assert that “engineering programs full of straight students are ‘less creative.’”
“The emotional toll of being an LGBTQ engineer (either open or closeted) is so great that it threatens to drive LGBTQ engineers out of the field,” the grant states....