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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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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Women in STEM Career Day EXP EXP is a nonprofit organization that supports 13 high schools in underserved communities in Southern California. Participants are assisted in securing a paid internship in the tech industry in one of three hub cities: Silicon Valley, Calif.; Chicago, Ill.; and Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

Inside Higher Ed

Over the past 21 years, the Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship has supported hundreds of transfer students as they have thrived at these institutions—and we have supported thousands more through Community College Transfer Initiative grants to selective schools. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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At the University of Montana, esports is about more than competition

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I mean English majors, Biology majors, Math majors, Computer Science, we have people from everywhere,” he explains. They did that organically. There are 50 scholarships given out each year to students. Any of those things qualify and if you do at least one of those a year you qualify for our scholarship.”.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design.

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Watch Your Language

Inside Higher Ed

Sure, the number of philosophy majors has remained fairly steady, but linguistics flourishes, even as the number of English and history majors has fallen by half and as computer science now enrolls as many undergraduates as all the humanities majors combined. Interest in language is also growing outside the academy.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. BlackPlayBook performs within a womanist/Black feminist tradition on a “play-ground” of Black performance, scholarship and activism, which she shares with her drama students. “We The drama club is open to all students on campus.