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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite other opportunities available to him, he decided to pursue a degree in mathematics secondary education. He became president of GateWay Community College in MCCCD in 2013. He said his experience as a first-generation student has “always helped me be a better professor, better administrator, and a better chancellor today.

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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Thats the West Africaninspired name that Gates and several close colleagues bestowed upon the geometric diagrams they use to represent mathematical relationships between certain particles and their yet-to-be-discovered superpartners. I create mathematics that nobody else has created before me.