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Time for a little #vetmeded on #vettwitter.
Please stop acting like we do not know why this profession isn't racially diverse. Stop it. There is solid research on why BIPOC students are not represented in STEM, health professions & vet med.
Please stop acting like we do not know why this profession isn't racially diverse. Stop it. There is solid research on why BIPOC students are not represented in STEM, health professions & vet med.
BTW--even if there wasn't research, it's not really a mystery. But for the sake of education, here are the biggies:
A leaky educational pipeline that also pathologizes & criminalizes Black and brown students, thus removing them from the pipeline.
A leaky educational pipeline that also pathologizes & criminalizes Black and brown students, thus removing them from the pipeline.
K-12 programs in marginalized communities that are so woefully underfunded that students are unprepared for collegiate curricula & are tracked into trade education.
This is so key to understanding financial decision-making. #vettwitter, when we talk about the need for financial assistance for URVM students, understand that this is sometimes what's going on behind the scenes.
It's not just that the student may be winging it on their own. It's that the student may be shouldering multiple financial burdens because the whole *family* is stuck in poverty.
Hopes & dreams are riding on success, but so is the light bill.
Hopes & dreams are riding on success, but so is the light bill.
We have to recognize that students whose families just can't help--they have a burden of self-financing, but they don't have to support family back home.
There's a population of young folk that have to do both-self finance *&* pitch in on sustaining the family.
There's a population of young folk that have to do both-self finance *&* pitch in on sustaining the family.
