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AAMU’s STEM boon carves career paths for HBCU students

University Business

Alabama A&M University and HBCUs at large are some of the most underfunded state universities in the nation, fighting year after year for supplemental grants, scholarships and business partnerships to keep their students competitive in the workforce. Students pursuing this will receive scholarships and assistance with job placement.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He directs the Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity at Rice University, where he has taught, among other subjects, engineering and computational applied mathematics and operations research. “We And it wasn’t that we were fighting society or academia. of all scientists and engineers employed full-time and16.7%

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Toward a more inclusive peer-review process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Those of us who work for university presses recognized over these difficult recent years that we needed to take practical steps not only to improve our processes but also to reflect on, articulate and further enact our values in our work—especially values of equity and inclusion. We knew the engine of peer review needed a tune-up.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. I thought I could make more of a difference at MIT because of its unique role in science and engineering.” Jackson has also been an advocate for gender equity.

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Top 9 Interesting, Innovative, & Impactful Higher Ed DEIB Initiatives

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But if there’s one good thing that’s come out of all the trouble, it’s been a renaissance in public awareness of problems around social justice, equity, and inclusion. While students in the program receive scholarships, that’s just the beginning. It’s about promoting equity on campus. including 66 M.D. We couldn’t agree more.

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STEM innovation in constrained economic times – the UK in an international context by Professor Ian Walmsley, Provost of Imperial College

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Here at Imperial College where I first began as a student 45 years ago, our commitment is to providing ‘the most advanced training, education research and scholarship in science, technology and medicine, especially in their application to industry’. Every day I see what this means in practice.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. to offer scholarships to DACA students.