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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Multiple academic studies have demonstrated that encouraging children to pursue a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) career gives them a distinct business advantage later in life. Despite the incremental increase in women entering STEM fields, there are far fewer female workers in computing and engineering than men.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Waller joined Virginia Tech in 2018 as director of Graduate Student Programs. Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes.

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Are Private Schools Ahead of Public Schools in 2023?

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Enrollment declines in 2020 were temporary, as private schools rebounded to report higher enrollment in 2021-2022 than in 2017-2018. graduation rate for the 2018-2019 school year. For the 2018-2019 school year, 64.5% According to the NAIS, leading the growth in enrollment was an increase in admissions in the lower grades.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Teach Black males and their families about the hidden curriculum (e.g., Make the hidden curriculum obvious so that Black families and their sons can take the necessary steps to challenge low expectations, stereotypes, hostility, and racial profiling. Then, as our partners, they can better support their sons.