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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
To ensure equity in STEM education, colleges and universities must take proactive steps to recruit, support, retain, and graduate minority students. This article outlines actionable strategies to create inclusive and supportive environments that empower students to succeed in STEM and contribute to a diverse and innovative workforce.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Bartell, Sandra Robinson & Willie McKether Only two-thirds of new college students will complete their degree within six years. For Black, Latinx, and Native American students, this number is much lower. Often there is an assumption that faculty will see such engagements as too time-intensive and, therefore, not worthwhile.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 23, 2024
Within that school district lies Southwest Junior High (SJH), a school comprising mostly Latinx (96%) students. Dr. Cindy Trejo According to Dr. Cindy Trejo, author of a new report produced by the Rutgers University’s Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice, what the school does is simply “magic.” “I
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Educators from a variety of community colleges shared how student success and sense of belonging is vital to meeting their local workforce needs, and how their unique geographic locations, demographic growth, and regional needs have influenced how they connect with big industry and small to mid-sized businesses.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
I look forward to continuing to partner with Dr. Christian to ensure our community colleges are engines of equity and opportunity.” She has previously been dean of science, engineering, allied health, and mathematics at Bakersfield College and administrator at Lane Community College. “Dr. Christian holds a B.S.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Furman University and 14 other institutions have collectively been awarded $8.625 million to improve inclusion for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Alison Roark, associate professor of biology and program director.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education.
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