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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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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 2022-23. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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Advancing Black Males in STEM is My Passion — Here’s How I Got There

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To provide a backdrop, in 2022, 798,534 students were enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate programs in the United States (National Science Foundation, 2022). Of those, 2% (16,111) were Black males. In the same year, Black males in engineering earned 1.8% Dr. Brian A.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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Steele describes going to conferences with few sessions centering on Black women and having trouble finding mentors. “We But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. And they weren’t looking to just hire one.

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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. But I’m not elitist ….

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Pride in the Halls

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The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people.

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Lifting As They Climb

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Dr. Na’ilah Suad Nasir, president of the Spencer Foundation, took the reigns in 2021-2022, followed by Dr. H. Richard Milner IV, the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education in 2022-2023. That was that if you get inside the door, your job is to hold it open for somebody else.”

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Fellowship Program Highlights the Work of Disabled Scholar-Activists

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So, when Beitiks learned in 2022 that the Andrew W. Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress. The first year of the fellowship had rocky moments, especially during the workshop, Beitiks and Locust said.