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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

” Princeton’s defense: “Operating expenses don’t include hundreds of millions in capital expenditures the endowment provides every year to fund things like research equipment and facilities.” Nor does it have a major nanoscience facility. Does Princeton have robust graduate programs in those areas?

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

PEER and WISE Programs Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences The PEER and WISE programs support students academically and demonstrate best practices and high graduation rates for underrepresented populations at predominantly White institutions.

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The Invisible Student Majority

Inside Higher Ed

Introductory STEM courses, far too often, serve weed-out functions that “disproportionately push underrepresented minority students out of the natural and applied sciences.” Ensure that commuting students can access recreation facilities at times that meet their schedules. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. This idea was brought to the American colonies largely by graduates from Cambridge and Edinburgh. The key, I believe, is to: 1.