Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Dr. Carol Parish Increasing and diversifying a workforce skilled to fill these data-driven jobs can be achieved through highly mentored, intentional involvement in innovative, publishable research projects. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry and Associate Provost for Academic Integration at the University of Richmond. and Elisabeth S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

But equally exhilarating was being surrounded by other brilliant scholars – all of whom were graduate students trying to figure out the mysteries of navigating a predominantly white university, and all of whom shared varied hues of melanin and traces of our Black and brown ancestors. Dr. Brian A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

candidate in astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park. “M Dr. Katy Wimberly, an astrophysicist and an assistant professor at California State University, San Bernardino, supports Ealy’s ambition. But her scholarship focuses on those stars she can barely see. Yeah, I study small stars,” says Ealy, a Ph.D.

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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. Although women publish less than men, they do more of the sort of necessary work that isn’t respected by promotion boards, like mentoring and service activities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

. — remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. 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. Dr. Luis A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

The cautionary advice dispatched by his mentors when Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz was a college student dented his confidence and, on several occasions, tripped him up. Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz “‘You’re too loud,’” Vargas-Muñiz, a Southern Illinois University molecular geneticist and microbiologist, recalled another of those years-old warnings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Universities risk undermining diversity by signaling unwelcoming conditions for the same populations who, for centuries, were formally excluded. The University of California learned after Proposition 209 how this can lead to group-level declines in application rates from Black and Latinx students. These issues are not just about race.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Prior to Valencia, Davis-Lowe served for more than 11 years at Oregon State University as director of The Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences (SMILE) program, during which she accepted a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

It's been something that has sustained me in academia, the service work that I do,” said Dr. Melva Treviño Peña, an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island. “To The Emerging Scholars also supported encouraging students to engage in research, disagree with mentors, prove their cases, and strive for positive change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Favour Nerrise Institution:   Stanford University Graduate Program:   Ph.D., in Computer Science and Mathematics with minors in Global Engineering Leadership and Arabic, University of Maryland Mentors:   Joyce D. Electrical Engineering Education:   B.S. Williams; S. Gordon Moore Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students. Watford says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University; M.S., Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology Mentors: Dr. Alan Erera and Dr. Alejandro Toriello, H. Dipayan Banerjee Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology Graduate Program: Ph.D., Operations Research Education: B.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

Matthews in starting what was initially a monthly newsletter on Black Issues In Higher Education , we now know the power of pathways in helping Black boys like me go from being a nerdy high school student in Richmond, Virginia, to a tenured professor at a flagship state university where the governor once stood in the Schoolhouse Door.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

of the colleges and universities that received the CGS International Graduate Admissions Survey. 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. Second, I hope that U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Hiram Lopez Valdez Title: Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University Age: 37 Education: B.S., applied mathematics, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico; M.S., mathematics, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute; and Ph.D., Do what you love. A colleague of his Ph.D.

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program The Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program was established to connect talented, innovative scientists, engineers, and researchers with the U.S. Or looking to expand your technical skills?

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Scholarship America

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Selected Community Scholars will be encouraged to participate in the Chick-fil-A Scholars Program, a one-year engagement that includes mentoring and leadership development alongside the 2024 Chick-fil-A True Inspiration Scholars. Ancestry’s HistoryMakers Scholarship is now open, providing $2,500 awards to students at eligible universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at University of Arizona. Career mentors: Dr. Ozan Jaquette, UCLA; Dr. Gary D. Rhoades, University of Arizona. As a top student at her high school who excelled in AP courses, Salazar earned a full scholarship to the University of Arizona.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

There is some bureaucracy to running a university. She noted that her former boss, UC Riverside's chancellor Kim Wilcox , is now her peer, adding: "He's a great friend and mentor, but all the way along, I haven't thought about having a boss. That's a different paradigm than universities typically operate under.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. We also examine programs and interventions that have been specially designed to improve Black males' mathematics skills. Dr. Erik M. Hines and E.C.

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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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Student Loan Hero

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We all know that scholarships are available from many colleges and universities, but some may be surprised to learn that corporate scholarships are also an option to pay for college. It provides scholarships to students in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) that attend a Historically Black College or University (HBCU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

School counselors can facilitate this by having Black males take career assessments such as the O’Net Interest Profiler , and ensure they are taking rigorous coursework in preparation for postsecondary options such as a college/university. is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Renae D.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Council for Opportunity in Education Applauds the University of Louisiana-Lafayette for Inaugurating the Carmouche TRIO Alumni Association September 5, 2024 — by Terrance L. Hamm The Carmouche TRIO Alumni Association at UL Lafayette is among the first University-established alumni societies specifically for TRIO students.

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COE

MAY 8, 2023

Among those affected was the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI). Through its myriad membership services, the Council works with colleges, universities, and agencies that host federal TRIO programs that help more than 800,000 low-income students and students with disabilities each year receive college access and retention services.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 21, 2023

Rachna Edalur Pronouns: she/her/hers School: Texas A&M University About: Rachna is an applied mathematics major with a concentration in biological sciences at Texas A&M University. In her free time, Rachna enjoys reading and watching reality TV (especially “Survivor”).

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COE

MARCH 10, 2023

Through its myriad membership services, the Council works with colleges, universities, and agencies that host federal TRIO programs that help more than 800,000 low-income students and students with disabilities each year receive college access and retention services. Education Bill Blog Helping Veterans Make the Most of the G.I.

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