EMU Honors Rachel Levine

[mike]

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FH5nj ... tid=wwXIfr

ADM (ret.) Rachel Levine, the U.S. assistant secretary for health from 2021-25, visited campus for a dedication ceremony of the Inclusivity in Science Mural at EMU’s Suter Science Center on March 27.

The mural, completed in summer 2022, features seven professionals in STEM-related fields whose identities as women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ individuals have historically been underrepresented in the sciences.

Dr. Levine became the first openly transgender federal official confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March 2021. She was named one of USA Today’s Women of the Year in 2022.

The public health expert, whose career as a pediatrician spans more than 40 years and whose portrait graces the mural, sat down with EMU News to talk about the mural, DEI, and the importance of vaccinations.

Sad.

[barnhart]

I'm actually a little surprised.

[temporal1]

what next.

[Judas Maccabeus]

And you all were expecting what?

It was, in my estimation, off the rails when my daughter and I visited, looking for a college. It was about 2004, and I could pick up on the liberalism even than. It was clearly on the liberal side of MCUSA.

I figure it will close within a few years.

[Grace]

How sad.

[barnhart]

I figure it will close within a few years.

I would guess it will either follow the track of other similar secular educational institutions or there may be some salt and light left hidden in the system that may resurface at some point and chart a slightly different course that reflects some of it's roots as an institution.

[Bootstrap]

EMU has been on the cutting edge of LGBTQ+ in MC-USA for quite a while. In general, the institutions are more liberal than most members. People going to the seminaries these days are often extremely liberal and politically ideological.

So this does not surprise me. Unfortunately.

[JohnL]

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FH5nj ... tid=wwXIfr

ADM (ret.) Rachel Levine, the U.S. assistant secretary for health from 2021-25, visited campus for a dedication ceremony of the Inclusivity in Science Mural at EMU’s Suter Science Center on March 27.

The mural, completed in summer 2022, features seven professionals in STEM-related fields whose identities as women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ individuals have historically been underrepresented in the sciences.

Dr. Levine became the first openly transgender federal official confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March 2021. She was named one of USA Today’s Women of the Year in 2022.

The public health expert, whose career as a pediatrician spans more than 40 years and whose portrait graces the mural, sat down with EMU News to talk about the mural, DEI, and the importance of vaccinations.

Sad.

This is downright tragic.