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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

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Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. Since 2001, the foundation has given over $270 million in advance grants to institutions and nonprofit groups in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. York lauds the program as “really smart.”

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

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With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. Curriculum Alongside wraparound services and culturally competent faculty and staff, what’s taught in the classroom is also vital to bolstering student success, Chang says. Census Bureau’s 2020 Census.

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Pride in the Halls

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This eventually led to applying for and receiving a grant to develop programming for LGBTQ+ students at Guttman. Guttman recently institutionalized its Lavender Graduation, a pre-graduation ceremony for LGBTQ students which the president, provost, and members of the faculty attend. This academic year, 575 students are being supported.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

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A transformative college president Prior to becoming the leader of ATD, Stout spent 14 years as the president of Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania, beginning in 2001. At the same time, the deans are talking to their faculty about the data in the classroom that faculty are using.

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Exploring the History of Latinos in Baseball

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Burgos arrived at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2001, where he earned tenure as an associate professor in 2007 and rose to full professor in 2012. Burgos has written two books, Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, which examines the U.S.’s

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Life and Learning, the Washington Way

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Washington’s expertise is sought after and granted across religious, government, corporate, and educational settings. When Washington was in his 20s, he met Dr. Joan Steinau Lester, author then leader of multicultural education for the faculty at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Driving While Black

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Dr. Yohuru Williams That case, which left Danny Reyes, Rayshawn Brown, LeRoy Jarmaine Grant and Keshon Moore injured, made national headlines and sparked around-the-clock protests organized by Reverend Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders who down parts of the turnpike to demand justice for the New Jersey Four.