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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. The largest HBCU in Alabama is no novice to adversity.

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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. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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“Ample room” for int’l students in the US

The PIE News

As policies restricting international student inflows take hold in Canada , Australia and the UK , “there is ample room for the international student population to grow” in the US, it said. To maximise this capacity for growth, universities “could offer more scholarships and run targeted marketing campaigns in key regions to help with brand awareness (..)

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). “We We are an affordable institution.

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Inspiring Tech Context

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are clear models of success, scholarship opportunities to major universities, lucrative professional contracts, elevated social status, and the potential to dramatically change the economic conditions for themselves and their families in place. These items were all brought to us in large part by computer scientists and engineers.

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

The PIE News

Universities are “uniquely placed” to address workforce gaps and should effectively become “skills brokers”, a new report says. By developing knowledge workers that industry needs, universities can maintain their mission of enabling strong graduate outcomes, the paper from Nous Group indicates.

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Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

Inside Higher Ed

Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. That’s disappointing, considering tens of thousands of community college students have the credentials, skills, and talents to excel at selective colleges and universities. percent at highly selective institutions this past spring. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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