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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. Although women publish less than men, they do more of the sort of necessary work that isn’t respected by promotion boards, like mentoring and service activities.

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NC A&T Chancellor Dr. Harold L. Martin, Sr. Announces Retirement at End of 2023-24 School Year

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s leading producer of Black STEM graduates; received record research and sponsored programs contracts and grants; and produced a $2.4 For more than three decades, he’s been a friend, a mentor and an inspiration to students and colleagues across the UNC System. .; become America’s largest HBCU; developed into the U.S.’s

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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

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Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Espinosa said this exposes students at MSIs to research opportunities and mentoring. The debt load of those who did is disproportionately high.

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Pride in the Halls

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This eventually led to applying for and receiving a grant to develop programming for LGBTQ+ students at Guttman. In addition to scholarships and grants, there are now workshops and conferences that reflect current needs and issues. The following year he co-chaired the committee with the aim of creating more opportunities for students.

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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. SACNAS filled that hole.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. Those freshmen remained bonded and, in time, became mentors. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering. Watford says.

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Study Shows Increase in International Graduate Student Enrollment

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degree-granting institutions. The largest growth areas across all countries are biological and agricultural sciences and mathematical and computer sciences, although the arts and humanities, business and education also show growth. Dr. Suzanne T.

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