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Strong Networks Help Turn Black Faculty into University Presidents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ebony McGee To explore these questions, we published, Factors Contributing to Black Engineering and Computing Faculty’sPathways Toward University Administration and Leadership , where we interviewed 21 Black engineering and computing faculty members who transitioned into administrative leadership roles in their colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Contact : Maya Matthews Minter Phone : 703.385.2411 Email : Maya@DiverseEducation.com Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars FAIRFAX, VA — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education will kick off 2023 with its annual Emerging Scholars edition.

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Emerging Scholars Express Hope, Validation, and Drive During Webinar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To accompany the release of its 2024 Emerging Scholars magazine edition, Diverse hosted its first-ever panel for the 15 outstanding scholars it recognized this year. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's 2024 Emerging Scholars shared sentiments of drive, hope, community, and validation during a webinar Thursday.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. York lauds the program as “really smart.”

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

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There is power in being a role model, he says, and that’s why he wants to make sure undergrads and graduates can see themselves represented in Lehman faculty, staff, and administration. are white and only 21% are faculty of color. Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer.

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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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