Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
In 2018, according to the Pew Research Center, Black students earned just 7% of STEM bachelors degrees, compared to their 10% share of all bachelors degrees and 12% representation in the adult population. However, disparities in STEM degree attainment reflect systemic barriers that hinder progress.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 20, 2024
But PSU’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) cultural groups helped him become acquainted with research, and, in 2018, he received an internship with the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). It was very isolating, a culture shock for sure,” says Delgado.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
In 2018, the University of Toledo joined the Student Experience Project (SEP) , which uses more than three decades of research into the impact of students’ psychological experiences to develop and implement practical approaches to creating more equitable educational outcomes.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 14, 2023
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 16, 2024
In 2018, he wanted to get more involved with student programming, so he joined the college’s LGBTQ+ History Month committee. Leyva is an associate professor of Mathematics Education & STEM Higher Education in the Vanderbilt University-Peabody College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Luis A.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 6, 2023
He directs the Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity at Rice University, where he has taught, among other subjects, engineering and computational applied mathematics and operations research. “We In 2018, according to 2021 version of that bi-annual analysis, 16.8% We started something that I needed so much,” the 85-year-old said.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2024
If colleges of engineering, colleges of science, and quite frankly non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) academic units would build the infrastructure that CEED has, they, too, would see an increase in the achievement, success, graduation, and graduate enrollment for first-generation and underrepresented students.”
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