[Opinion] Treat Your Students Like Scientists (opinion)

Treat Your Students Like Scientists (opinion)

Fixing the leaky pipeline depends on it. I spoke with a former student recently; I taught her in her first semester at Notre Dame and was delighted for a chance to catch up. She shared that she had changed her major from biochemistry to political science. Remembering her excitement about becoming a doctor, I asked what spurred her to make that change. She described the challenges of keeping up in some of the notoriously tough first-year science …