Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

Hank Weddington The grant is designed to address science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teacher shortages and create pathways for underrepresented students to become STEM educators, according to Dr. Hank Weddington, dean of the College of Education and Human Services.

Grant

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. Chad Topaz In a bid to mitigate this crisis, the university's decision-makers have unveiled plans for deep academic program cuts.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

As tuition continues to rise, so does the question of return on investment for students and their parents, which inevitably targets less lucrative fields of study like the humanities. The humanities do great things for the way people think, and their ability to empathize and imagine worlds they are not a part of,” said Fleming.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. Leyva is an associate professor of Mathematics Education & STEM Higher Education in the Vanderbilt University-Peabody College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Luis A.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

She served as primary investigator for more than $3 million of the program’s grants to extend PFF into the preparation of future science, mathematics, humanities and social science faculty. From the start of her career, she has focused on improving access to education for underserved populations.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Aspiring to become a researcher and science communicator, Ealy is driven to understand humanity and science’s place in the world as it is. “It’s a huge question with lots of different factors involved, and my work is just a piece of that.” The work that I am doing is actively contributing to that,” she says. “It

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

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. The assistant principal for boys suggested she apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

We focus on understanding the molecular behavior of model compounds related to energy and human health. The Parish lab is interdisciplinary – all projects employ the tools of mathematics and computer science to solve important problems in biology, chemistry and physics. In my laboratory, the research projects are diverse by design.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. Jett is an associate professor of mathematics education in the Department of Middle and Secondary Education at Georgia State University.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

The largest growth areas across all countries are biological and agricultural sciences and mathematical and computer sciences, although the arts and humanities, business and education also show growth. The report data shows that as the pandemic subsided there has been a decrease in the desire for remote-only graduate programs.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Humans are no different. In a sample of 515 math majors across the country, women were more likely to report that GRE requirements deter them from applying to graduate mathematics programs. That animals avoid environments which seem unhealthy due to predators or poor conditions is a well-documented ecological phenomenon.

Application

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

It’s an opportunity to think about what co-curricular integration can look like,” said Dr.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, SACNAS remains rooted in a belief that science cannot be properly taught, researched, or applied to human beings’ daily existence unless scientists bring some essential parts of their background and worldview to that sphere. “They were interweaving cultural identity with the journeys people were on.”

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It’s incredible the way [The Mount] truly lives the mission of our authentic inclusivity and commitment to human dignity, our obligations to each other, and our common humanity,” says Burns. Burns, who arrived at The Mount in January 2021, says the institution is unlike any at which she had ever served.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Mai See Thao , director of Hmong Studies and assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, Global Religions, and Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Dr. Hiram H.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Despite other opportunities available to him, he decided to pursue a degree in mathematics secondary education. Both are first-generation college students, grew up in migrant farming communities, have a background in mathematics, and served as president of MCCCD institutions (before Gonzales became chancellor of MCCCD).

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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] ). Dr. Donna Y. Fletcher Jr.,

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

applied mathematics, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico; M.S., mathematics, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute; and Ph.D., Lopez Valdez’s focus on the human element started when he was a visiting scholar in Switzerland during the 2014-15 academic year.

Mathematics

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.”

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. In the courses we offer, we work to introduce students to the tools and the practices that will help them to identify and develop their own practice and to find their unique voice as an artist and as a human being,” said Tesman. “We

Teaching

College Planners of America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Students should practice with the scientific calculators that are the only types usable in exams such as Chemistry, College Algebra, and College Mathematics. Taking a CLEP Exam at Home CLEP offers all exam-takers the option of taking CLEP exams at home with remote human proctoring.

Mathematics

EAB

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In fact, the higher education industry more frequently advertises non-technical IT skills, such as “mathematics,” “finance,” and “data management.”. Higher ed often requests skills that require the use of specific programming tools and software, like “application programming interface,” but lags in advertising the latest trends in IT skills.

Application

Student Research Foundation

AUGUST 7, 2024

General education classes, also known as “gen ed” classes, are required courses that give students a well-rounded education by exposing them to the arts, humanities, social, and natural sciences. Social Sciences: When trying to understand who we are as humans, we need to understand human behavior.

Humanities

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Mathematics is well regarded in medical applications, and most universities expect medicine and dentistry students to have studied at least one of the sciences. All of them are closely intertwined, as business studies and economics include a good element of mathematics to them, and Maths helps us understand modern economics.

Tutoring

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Depth and Breadth of Content The spectrum of subjects covered in the IB program is vast, from sciences to humanities, leaving students feeling overwhelmed. Mathematics , Science , Physics , German , French , English , and more, no matter which subject is complex, our tutors can help.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Exploring group counseling interventions for Black boys in middle school: Using the achieving success everyday (ASE) group model for racial and mathematical identity development. We also examine programs and interventions that have been specially designed to improve Black males' mathematics skills. Hines and E.C. Fletcher (Eds.).

Advising

EAB

AUGUST 29, 2023

But it's stories and human interests that people can actually. So I don't ever wanna argue with the president and tell them, some of this may be mathematically impossible, but some of it may be mathematical be impossible. Could actually attach to. Cause I don't ever talk to a president that doesn't have a growth goal.

Communication

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.

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Edward C. is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Renae D. Hines is a Professor in the Division of Child, Family, and Community Engagement at George Mason University Dr. Donna Y.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

hooks (1990) calls this unique love and protection ‘homeplace,’ a space that provides a sanctuary that supports the wholeness and humanizing of those who collectively create and exist in said space. link] Black males continue to be underrepresented in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Dr. Donna Y.

Education

Purdue University Global

JULY 5, 2024

While her vulgar and neglectful parents fail to recognize her mathematical and literary talents, a kind teacher, Miss Honey, nurtures Matilda’s intellect and shows her compassion. Anyone with an interest in the world and the human spirit Summary: A Long Way Gone is the story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone. Why I picked this book?

Tutoring

Purdue University Global

JUNE 23, 2023

While her vulgar and neglectful parents fail to recognize her mathematical and literary talents, a kind teacher, Miss Honey, nurtures Matilda’s intellect and shows her compassion. Anyone with an interest in the world and the human spirit Summary: A Long Way Gone is the story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone. Why I picked this book?

Tutoring

Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I attended Wellesley College, graduating in 2021 and majoring in studio art with a minor in mathematics. I attend Duke University and am a neuroscience major with a certificate in human rights. I’m from Bethesda, MD. Where do you (or did you) go to school, and what is/was your major? Where are you from? I am from Orlando, FL.

Mental health