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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And as business owners, Latinos made up 50% of net new small businesses from 2007–2017. Undergraduates are most concerned with scholarship opportunities, financial literacy, and paying for their education,” survey conductors reported about the financial needs of Latino students. Encourage research and scholarship on U.S.

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Spotlighting Rural Communities

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Molloy University; and Dr. Leigh Patel, University of Pittsburgh Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: Find and develop a community of supportive colleagues and mentors. Jori Hall, University of Georgia; Dr. Tony Cawthon, Clemson University; Dr. Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr., It’s all a team effort,” Means said.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

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“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.

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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions

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Fundamentally, I want my scholarship to matter to people's lives and to do that, it's really helpful if I don't lose sight of how people are living.” However, her strategy is simple ; she starts with culture. Culture is this place where we try to make sense of a really complex world in our own little local context,” says McMillan Cottom.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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for students who entered in 2017. Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” Taylor Cupp When Watford began CEED, the graduation rate for Black engineering students was around 25%.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It has been at or near capacity since 2017. During the school year, there are some academic achievement scholarships. The CCCSE report says academic advisors should be asking students about housing and food insecurity and faculty should be trained to spot signs. “I The building is in proximity to classes and campus resources.

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Digging Deeper

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That book has had a second life as a work of urgent public scholarship after events like the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, the Proud Boys comment during one of the presidential debates, and then, of course, the Jan. The book examines the movement’s escalation to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.