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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They award 24% of all bachelor’s degrees received by African Americans in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Colleges and universities use endowments to support several priorities, such as scholarships, upgraded facilities and faculty hiring. Lastly, we must vote our values on Tuesday, November 5.

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New Video Series Showcases Research on Black Males Navigating and Succeeding in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Communicating the Science of the Stars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But her scholarship focuses on those stars she can barely see. Getting a better idea of how the variability of these stars changes over their lifetimes and how that informs our models of developing planets is the goal of my thesis,” says Ealy. Yeah, I study small stars,” says Ealy, a Ph.D.

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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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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the most anticipated annual issues each January is the Emerging Scholars edition that features outstanding scholars of color breaking new ground in research, applying scholarship to public policy and grooming the next generation of leaders and professionals. We were always an informational magazine at least in our news reporting.” (See

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Featured Partner Scholarships: September 2023

Scholarship America

The new school year is here, and that means the start of another busy scholarship season! Now is the perfect time to start making your plans, researching the scholarships you want to apply for and brushing up on the do’s and don’ts of scholarship applications. In addition, you must have a 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Encouragement Watford inherited one pre-college program that already existed for seventh and eighth graders, providing information about electrical and computer engineering. I believe CEED is a national model,” Sanders says. “If It is now called Imagination. CEED has always been both gender and ethnic, racial diversity focused,” says Watford.

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