I'm not sure I'm qualified to comment on this. I'm a Professional Engineer in Water Resources in Las Vegas. But, I'm not a Hollywood actor, or famous or anything. Maybe we should just defer to our leaders, like Mr. Shatner, to determine what course of action we should take.
I like you; you understand your place in this world.
Seriously though, reasonable people that are willing to compromise never get anything done when dealing with people that aren't reasonable and won't compromise.
1) Conducting interventions throughout the entire doctoral process;
2) Providing students with enhanced academic support;
3) Monitoring and evaluating programs and interventions; and
4) Cultivating a culture of diversity and inclusion,
A highlight of the report
“One of the striking lessons from this study is that the dissertation phase is a particularly critical time for students. Our country’s STEM workforce will lose a great deal of potential talent if we don’t help underrepresented doctoral students cross the finish line”
...carries the hint of 'shortening the time to degree based on interviews with minority graduate students' might prove to be controversial as that could bring forth the ' entitlement mindset ' that has been plagued the society at large for much too long
As to your last point, I was thinking the same thing. The parent post is needlessly inflammatory, accusative, with an air of superiority and without a hint of irony considering its lack of grammar, punctuation or formatting while closing with a zinger about illiteracy.
If, perchance, the parent poster or anyone else that would like a life lesson, reads this, please consider my points. I'm coming from a place of understanding.
Many years ago while in college I wrote something with what I thought was a playful tone and got modded 'troll' hard. At the time I was really pretty angry about those mods. Years later I happened to come across that same story on
With your bare hands?!?