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Leadership & Policy

Hopefuls Interview for Southern University System Post

With final selection expected by the end of April, five semifinalists for the Southern University System presidency stated their cases Tuesday for why they should lead the nation’s only historically Black college system.

Dr. Leonard Haynes III, senior adviser in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education and Southern University graduate, was a Southern University System executive vice president in the 1980s.

Report: HSIs Key to Spurring Latino Movement Through STEM Pipeline

A Center for Urban Education (CUE) report argues that reversing the historic underfunding of Hispanic-serving institutions (HSI) will increase the number of Latino students going into the science and technology fields.

In 2007, Latinos were awarded just 8.2 percent of STEM bachelor’s degrees.

Wisconsin Unveils Plan to Produce More College Graduates

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is challenging campuses to find new ways to graduate more students as part of a long-range plan to increase the number of degree-holders in the state.

African-American

Georgia NAACP Sues State For Underfunding Public HBCUs

The Georgia NAACP has sued the state, claiming it has systematically underfunded its three public Black colleges and threatened their survival as a result.

NAACP HBCU lawsuit

African-American

Minority-focused STEM Funding Plan Raises Equity Concerns

A debate has emerged over science programs at minority-serving institutions and how best to prepare more students of color for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. Loss of guaranteed funding and potential increased competition for NSF grants jeopardizes MSI programs, advocates say.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students

Justice Center Trains Future Lawyers, Seeks Criminal Justice Reform

David A. Singleton believes that taking the long view in advocating for progressive change in the criminal justice system starts with the basics: legal education.

David Singleton is the executive director of the Ohio Justice & Policy Center in Cincinnati.

Post-racialism Threatens Equal Protection Jurisprudence, Legal Scholars Say

Law professors at a Georgetown law school symposium Friday criticized the belief that race no longer matters as a factor in how Americans are treated by the nation’s legal system.

Native Americans

Climate Change-Themed STEM Curriculum Developed for Tribal Colleges

An AIHEC partnership helps tribal colleges build capacity to sustain science and technology education and research programs.

Tribal college STEM faculty

Faculty & Staff

STEM Careers and 21st Century Academic Racism

This week, I came across a study that found that a significant number of women and AALANAs (African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans) were discouraged from pursuing their STEM careers. In “Facts of Science Education XIV,” the research firm Campos surveyed 1,226 women and AALANA members of the American Chemical Society—particularly chemists and chemical engineers […]

Survey: U.S. Women and Minority Scientists Often Discouraged from Pursuing STEM Careers

A Bayer Facts of Science Education survey examined the root causes of underrepresentation in STEM fields by gauging the life experiences of female, African-American, Hispanic and American Indian scientists.

Dr. Mae Jemison

Faculty & Staff

Report Examines Why Women are Under-represented in STEM Fields

The American Association of University Women report, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, involves a review of literature about gender and science published over the past 15 years.

Obama’s Education Law Overhaul To Focus on College

The Obama administration unveiled its plan Saturday to radically change his predecessor’s No Child Left Behind education law in hopes of replacing an accountability system that in the last decade has tagged more than a third of U.S. schools as failing and created a hodgepodge of sometimes weak academic standards among states.

Daniel Domenech

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