Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A brand-new video series that highlights the diverse experiences of Black boys and men in the science, technology, engineering and mathematic (STEM) fields, has launched under the direction of a prominent researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Brian A. Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2023

Notably, the endangered programs encompass graduate tracks in the School of Mathematical and Data Sciences and, alarmingly, the comprehensive Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. Without a robust higher education system to train educators, the foundation of early education in the state could be imperiled.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Ansley Booker has been named the inaugural Penny and Jim Coulter 1982 Executive Director of Dartmouth NEXT, a university-wide initiative at Dartmouth College aimed at expanding opportunities for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's 2024 Emerging Scholars shared sentiments of drive, hope, community, and validation during a webinar Thursday. The scholars – and many others in higher ed and beyond – continue their work as ongoing culture wars flare up in the U.S. The panel was moderated by Dr. Jamal Watson.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male. For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. Five years from now, Byrd and Mason want their membership to reach 100 higher education institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests. Students can be “ cooled out ” of higher education, but they can also be “warmed up.” Humans are no different.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Moore III, assistant director of the NSF’s Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), explained the various efforts that NSF has taken to support STEM research in higher ed, including for HBCUs.

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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% Dr. Brian A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. Leyva is an associate professor of Mathematics Education & STEM Higher Education in the Vanderbilt University-Peabody College of Education & Human Development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During our weekly meetings we learned, in community, about the persistent and systemic nature of inequities in higher education and shared institutional data so that faculty understood the importance of their efforts to improve equitable student outcomes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This group, smaller in number, comprised almost exclusively Black and brown graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Burt is a professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In October 2022, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a new report where, again, Black students lagged behind white students on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) also known as the Nation’s Report Card. Years later, our experiences still haunt us.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

These organizations are collectively investing more than $2 billion toward efforts to improve equity in STEMM, said Dr. Travis York, director of Inclusive STEMM Ecosystems for Equity & Diversity (ISEED) at AAAS. The alliance launched in 2022 at the first White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

“She expertly combines her passion for astrophysics with her passion for community by working to improve institutional systems and cultural dynamics to create more equitable and inclusive spaces,” she continues. Ealy looks to Wimberly, among others, as an example of her possibilities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Gonzales, education is a lifelong calling. Despite other opportunities available to him, he decided to pursue a degree in mathematics secondary education. Gonzales’ passion for education has culminated in a swift rise to being named chancellor of the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) last September.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

He directs the Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity at Rice University, where he has taught, among other subjects, engineering and computational applied mathematics and operations research. “We SACNAS has always come at it as strength-based rather than deficit minded,” Lambert continued. “So, SACNAS filled that hole.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

“I really wanted to put a spotlight on what is possible when educators, like the ones in the Gadsden district, see their students as assets and see that the population they serve is capable of achieving their college dreams,” said Trejo, director of Outreach FAMILIA at the University of Arizona. “To And they nurture that.”

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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. Women wrote the first computer algorithm and the first programming language to use English words. STEMM” adds medicine to the standard abbreviation.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Williams, associate dean for inclusive excellence in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech. While addressing a problem in a for-profit industry is different from a project like public school transportation, he said the mathematics of it intrigued him. Banerjee excels at both teaching and research, according to Dr. Damon P.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Williams, associate dean for inclusive excellence in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech. While addressing a problem in a for-profit industry is different from a project like public school transportation, he said the mathematics of it intrigued him. Banerjee excels at both teaching and research, according to Dr. Damon P.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

If colleges of engineering, colleges of science, and quite frankly non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) academic units would build the infrastructure that CEED has, they, too, would see an increase in the achievement, success, graduation, and graduate enrollment for first-generation and underrepresented students.”

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. As she put it, "I really like doing science." We do that every day at universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. So, in addition to delivering instruction that focuses on skills, technique and emerging technologies, we must also provide safe and inclusive space for students to explore visual storytelling in service to critical issues.”

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The company is dedicated to fostering diversity, equity and inclusion in the tech sector around the world. SMART provides students with the tools needed to pursue higher education and begin a civilian career with the DoD. Or looking to expand your technical skills? Department of Defense (DoD) workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As numerous fellows entered the African American Hall of Fame at Morehouse College, the Dean of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Division, Dr. Eddie Red, delivered a welcoming message, expressing his aspiration to one day be featured on the wall, as he, like many of us present, is destined for a greater purpose.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Hines and E.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

It will take partnerships like Xavier and Ochsner’s, and educational commitment at all levels to improve STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] education and providing advanced placement courses. These changes can help minoritized youth discover and fall in love with medical sciences, said Robinson.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Mayes It’s essential to note that homeplace must be intentional spaces that can and should be created across P-12 education and beyond (e.g., higher education) to counter the many systemic issues that work to oppress students, especially Black students, and even more so Black males. Dr. Renae D. Theory into Practice. Hannon, L.

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COE

MAY 8, 2023

Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Jon Tester (D-MT), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) for their efforts in ensuring that historically underserved students have fair opportunities to attend college, receive assistance to prepare for, succeed in, and complete higher education.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Carmouche’s legacy includes earning his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics Education from Southern University in Baton Rouge in 1965 and his Master’s Degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (formerly USL) in 1970.

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COE

MARCH 10, 2023

COE President Maureen Hoyler Currently serving over 880,000 students in every state and many territories, the Federal TRIO Programs were first enacted in the Higher Education Act of 1965. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program) help students overcome economic, social, academic, and cultural barriers to higher education.

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