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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The needs of freshmen are also carefully considered, with INSPIRE (Incoming Student Program for Inclusion, Retention and Excellence) as well as student support programs like EOP (Educational Opportunity Program) and EXCEL, which create strong networks of support. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1% years in 2021-22.” in 2022-23.

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Scholar-Practitioner Helps to Promote Inclusivity at Alma Mater

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nearly twenty years later, Patterson-Stephens returned to her alma mater in 2021 to become CMU’s Vice President for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging after honing her leadership skills at several other colleges and universities across the nation. She is the first Black woman to ever serve as a vice president at the university.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

trillion in 2021 comes with 4.7% increase in undergrad engineering enrollment rates from 2010 (9.1%) to 2021 (15.8%). of engineering master’s degree recipients in 2021 – from 4.2% One issue highlighted in the report was the shortage of Latino mentors to encourage students to pursue STEM fields. and 19.7%, respectively.

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We use languages that are not inclusive. identify as Black, according to a 2021 report from the bipartisan research organization New American Economy and the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, a group of U.S. In doing justice work, we have to constantly ask ourselves, who are we leaving out?”

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The cautionary advice dispatched by his mentors when Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz was a college student dented his confidence and, on several occasions, tripped him up. A number of them mentor budding scientists of color at a time when the scientific sphere remains overwhelmingly white and male. of the population.

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Creating Diverse Pathways for the Next Generation of Doctors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A bright young scholar, Pickens graduated as the top-ranked student from Miami Northwestern Senior High School in the Class of 2021, armed with an impressive academic record and multiple offers of admission from institutions such as Harvard, Howard, Duke, and the University of Miami.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Na’ilah Suad Nasir, president of the Spencer Foundation, took the reigns in 2021-2022, followed by Dr. H. In 2021, AERA’s leadership named Dr. Edmund W. Richard Milner IV, the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education in 2022-2023. Dr. William Tate IV Gordon, who is 102, served is the John M.