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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

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Tribal Colleges and Universities Seek Greater Recognition and Funding

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Experts hope that, with more flexible funding, TCUs will be more easily able to not only support their students, but recruit and retain more faculty and expand programs that serve regional needs. Faculty have been known to buy a student’s textbooks if the student cannot afford them. There’s a drive in the U.S.

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Championing Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Undergraduate LAs operate as part of an instructional team, supporting both students and faculty to create more inclusive, learner-centered classrooms that improve student and faculty success. At FSU, the program has also worked to increase access to STEM majors. “My The concept is quite simple.

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Ohio State Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

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Dr. Mohler Peter “Ohio State’s newly elected Fellows represent a breadth of expertise in subjects ranging from cardiac disorders and marine life to STEM education and exoplanets,” said Dr. Peter Mohler, executive vice president for research, innovation, and knowledge at Ohio State. “I Dr. James L. Dr. James L.

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Women in STEM: Perception Versus Reality

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of the STEM workforce in the U.K. Across Europe, women account for more than half of the continent’s population but just 17% of its information and communications technology professionals. Ami Moyal It is crucial to understand that gender inequity in STEM is driven more by perception than by reality. Women make up only 29.4%

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Oklahoma cooperative extension service: Family and consumer sciences

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Beginning in the fall of 2021, input was gathered from the OSU community, including students, faculty, staff, alumni, and stakeholders. First opportunity : Rethink and improve communication about FCS. Second opportunity : Increase collaboration across Extension; just one opportunity is STEM education.

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Transforming Barriers into Assets: Prioritizing the Cultural Wealth of Black Students in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Likewise, as a higher education professional, I have mentored and supported first-generation Black postsecondary STEM students who share similar life experiences, aspirations, challenges, and stories that help them persist through their STEM education and workforce readiness training. Kornbluh et al.