We have hard more about the issue. From Today's Chronicle: "The omission of evolutionary biology from a group of science majors eligible for a new federal grant program was an oversight, the U.S. Department of Education said on Thursday, and it will take immediate steps to correct the matter."
There was no mention of behavioral sciences however. Joe Joseph J. Horton Ph. D. Box 3077 Grove City College Grove City, PA 16127 724-458-2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] In God we trust. All others must bring data. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 7:57 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Funny business at the US Department of Education I don't think this got through the other day, so I'm trying again. ---------------------- The Chronicle of Higher Education (Sam Keen, August 22) has a disturbing report on a US federal grant programme for science and foreign language undergrads. It seems there are some puzzling omissions for eligible fields of study. Prominent among the missing in action is evolutionary biology. The disciplines are listed by code number, and it turns out to be the only code number absent among the sub-fields of biology. The Department of Education says it's probably just a clerical error. Right. And I'm the Queen of Romania. Of particular interest to TIPSters, the article ends: "For unknown reasons, "behavioral sciences" and "exercise psychology" are also absent." Well, behavioural science is the discipline which carries out those shocking studies on sexual behavior, isn't it? But what do they have against "exercise psychology"? Is that ungodly and subversive too? (And did the Chronicle really mean "exercise _physiology_"?). Doubtless we'll be hearing more about this in future. I hope so. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
