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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. As a result, students are leading cutting-edge research and getting hired.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Students learn to apply machine learning, text analytics, and artificial intelligence.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Inspiring Tech Context

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It isn’t until the context of football and the opportunities that participation in the sport entails that it would make sense for those students who choose to play to engage in it. Marcus Bright The meaning that context provides can make a critical difference in tech educational curriculum like computer science.

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Aus: PhD visa delays ‘damaging reputation’

The PIE News

PhD students from countries including Iran, China and Pakistan who hold offers from Australian universities say they have been waiting up to three years to obtain visas. Students estimate that over 300 Iranian doctoral candidates are currently affected. Almost 200 visa grants were for study in the postgraduate research sector.

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Universities should be “skills brokers” for mutual benefit, urges report

The PIE News

Local labour markets alone cannot satisfy workforce challenges, he maintained, adding that “attracting international talent is essential” “Universities have an important role to play when demand from employers for skills is not aligned to study interest areas identified by prospective students,” he noted.

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OEE Scholar Interview Series: Dr. Tiera Tanksley

ACPA

We’re excited to highlight the scholarship of Dr. Tiera Tanksley , Assistant Professor of Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education at CU Boulder and a Critical Race Technology Fellow at UCLA. She earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies within UCLA’s Urban Schooling program.