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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 18, 2025
However, in certain courses and majors, Black students are often discouraged or deterred from pursuing them, specifically in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). faculty, staff, and administrators) are highly underrepresented, which is a crisis. MENTORING MATTERS. SCHOOL COUNSELORS MATTER.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
To provide a backdrop, in 2022, 798,534 students were enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate programs in the United States (National Science Foundation, 2022). Of those, 2% (16,111) were Black males. In the same year, Black males in engineering earned 1.8%
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders. How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds? Black university leaders had a deep desire to serve as the mentors and role models that many of them never had.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 16, 2024
noted they received unfair treatment from school administrators. There was also a standing committee on LGBTQ student needs that the student affairs office had, which did as much as they could within the confines of the administration,” he says. of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9%
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 3, 2022
We have visited schools in South Florida and met with administrators, teachers, and students to assess current levels of computer science access and instruction and to find ways to add value to present academic programming. The school has an existing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (S.T.E.M.)
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 31, 2023
Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. Another program, “WeWomen Afeka,” establishes a women-only mentoring chain. Women comprise 48% of the total workforce in the U.S.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Although women publish less than men, they do more of the sort of necessary work that isn’t respected by promotion boards, like mentoring and service activities.
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