Campus Reform:
Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine has established a $3.18 million federally-funded program meant to “increase diversity in veterinary medicine.”
The Indiana veterinary school’s “Vet Up! The National Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) Academy for Veterinary Medicine” will largely be funded by a $3.18 million grant from The Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to a Purdue news release.
Purdue hopes to use the funds to address what it views as a scarcity of veterinarians focused on public health and “rural/food animal practice,” as well as a shortage in members of underrepresented groups entering the industry. The Vet Up! program aims to address these issues simultaneously by filling veterinary shortage areas “with equity-minded individuals from underrepresented populations and rural areas.”
Purdue will work with historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and state organizations to create a curriculum for the “Vet Up!” initiative. The program also consists of three separate divisions for high school, college, and graduate students.
“It is very exciting for our college to be selected for this major federally funded initiative that seeks to address an issue we have been working on for several years within our college and the veterinary profession,” Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine Dr. Willie Read said in the news release.
But the Purdue University chapter of Turning Point USA told Campus Reform that the program raises some concerns pertaining to a possible decrease in standards in favor of diversifying the veterinary program. more here
Black Labs Matter…
Another gross example of federal tax dollars being funneled down a rat hole, a Purdue Rat Hole!
I read the article to my cats. They don’t care!
If they let more muslims in for canine and swine veterinary courses, say goodbye to Rex and the supply of bacon.
Both outcomes with thoroughly piss me off.
The first underrepresented group they need to pursue are the bestiality-prone.
Yeah, that’ll go over well.
Hope ‘diversity’ doesn’t mean more human patients….
When was this grant applied for/awarded? Trump has been in office now for 20 months. This crap needs to stop.
Yeah, lets get some Muslims in there to take care of our dogs. Not!
When I read this headline, my first thought was my dogs will finally be able to get that sex change operation they’ve been hoping for. Just kidding, my dogs have more sense than any progressive I can think of.