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Scholar-Practitioner Helps to Promote Inclusivity at Alma Mater

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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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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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Maintaining Inclusive Campuses After Affirmative Action: Educators Discuss Pathways Forward 

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Maintaining Inclusive Campuses After Affirmative Action: Educators Discuss Pathways Forward November 1, 2024 — by Holly Hexter Educators say campuses can maintain multicultural, supportive environments in the aftermath of mandates eliminating affirmative action and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

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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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Creating Diverse Pathways for the Next Generation of Doctors

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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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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

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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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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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