San Jacinto College near Houston is trying to get more “underserved minority” students into and through courses that prepare them for work in STEM fields, according to this story in Diverse Education. Undoubtedly, such coursework will prove more beneficial to these students than most of the rest of the school’s curricular offerings. The discipline needed to pass math and science courses is good training for almost anything. But if the students think that they’ll have “good” jobs waiting for them after graduation, they’re probably going to be badly disappointed, as I argued in this Forbes piece.