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How Maricopa Community Colleges are Leading with Workforce-aligned Bachelor’s Degrees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By focusing on employer needs, we have launched eight bachelors degrees in crucial areas including nursing, education, information technology, and public safety administration. By partnering with Intel, our curriculum prepares students for real-world application. Of our initial bachelors degree offerings, two are education-focused.

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Report Highlights Shortages of Credentials Aligned with Middle-Skills Occupations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jessica Perez, director of the Center for Career & Professional Development at LaGuardia Community College in New York City, found the report’s projections informative. Students who are making decisions about their futures should receive information such as this, said Kathryn Campbell, CEW editorial director and co-author of the report.

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Grassroots Push for Computer Science Education Gears Up

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The school has an existing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (S.T.E.M.) All of the students will take the aforementioned computational thinking assessment which will help to inform what version of a computer science curriculum they will receive. The other half will come from the general student population.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She had a love for mathematics. She took a course her freshman year called PANIC (Physics a New Introductory Course), and she loved it because it combined understanding the physical world with mathematics. During that time, the implementation of risk-informed, performance-based regulation became the norm.

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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

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Multiple academic studies have demonstrated that encouraging children to pursue a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) career gives them a distinct business advantage later in life. For more information, contact solongojin@yahoo.com.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Encouragement Watford inherited one pre-college program that already existed for seventh and eighth graders, providing information about electrical and computer engineering. Watford says.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

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Specifically, in comparison to 2019, the previous assessment year, average mathematics scores for grade 4 students were lower in 2022 for American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Hispanic, students of Two or More Races, and white students (see [link] ). My personal experiences continue to inform me professionally. Dr. Tanya J.

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