Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

She had a love for mathematics. She took a course her freshman year called PANIC (Physics a New Introductory Course), and she loved it because it combined understanding the physical world with mathematics. Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.”

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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. Without an increased focus on and support for STEM education and the success of its students, the global economy will suffer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes. It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Lehman faculty are encouraged to look through their curriculum and pedagogy to make it more relevant to their Latinx students, in part, through Spanish-language programs and through the school’s Department of Latin American and Latino Studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ford Cultivating Black joy is critical, given censorship placed in schools, on Black bodies, and in the curriculum. instructional practices, curriculum development, teacher-student relationships, classroom climate, etc.) Teaching homeplace: How teachers can cultivate Black joy through culturally responsive practices in the classroom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. Some students envision careers in art, music, or performance, while others see the value of the arts within the context of different career paths.

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