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How Maricopa Community Colleges are Leading with Workforce-aligned Bachelor’s Degrees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As an educator myself, who taught high school mathematics in the community I called home, I know firsthand the level of preparedness K-12 teachers need to be successful for their students. Today, 61 percent of students entering our baccalaureate programs are first-generation and 41 percent are new to the community college system.

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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

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Despite other opportunities available to him, he decided to pursue a degree in mathematics secondary education. He works hard to ensure that he is living values of integrity, inclusiveness, collaboration in his work every day,” Sullivan continued. Rivera also notes Gonzales’ collaborative style. For Dr. Steven R.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

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Because Hispanics have been historically underrepresented in areas like STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), for example, or in C-Suite (executive corporate) positions, unfortunately so many students question if these things are possible for them.” in mathematics at Arizona State University.

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Report: Looking at What Contributes to Student Success and Persistence Among Mexican Americans

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The interviews with the first-generation college-going Mexican Americans were conducted in a specific manner so as to best gather testimonios , a manner grounded in Chicana feminist theories and indigenous theories, Trejo said. SJH’s focus on training students to be proficient in mathematics was another point in its favor.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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“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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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

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Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer. In 2022, The Mount received a Title V HSI grant to develop new resources to help students who struggle in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs, otherwise known as STEM.

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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

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Thats the West Africaninspired name that Gates and several close colleagues bestowed upon the geometric diagrams they use to represent mathematical relationships between certain particles and their yet-to-be-discovered superpartners. I create mathematics that nobody else has created before me.