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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. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today. Black males are further disadvantaged and marginalized due to being labeled and stereotyped as intellectually inferior to their racial and gender counterparts. Fletcher Jr.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

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That vocabulary must be challenging, so that it provokes new thinking, but it must not be overly technical or oriented towards engineering or architectural concerns. This was an emergency response, not an active choice, and it brought with it a large number of disadvantages to students and academic staff.

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

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So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

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The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. Teaching-only’, ‘Teaching and Scholarship’ and ‘Teaching-focussed’ academic jobs have become increasingly common. The Royal Society adopts the same wording.