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African-American

Bloomfield College Partners With Nonprofit to Help Minority STEM Students

The program was so successful that the school will offer the camp during the upcoming academic school year and has increased its efforts to recruit additional students.

August 5, 2014

Disabilties

Special Focus: STEM

In this issue of Diverse, we look at STEM, or the science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. We take a deeper look at what higher education leaders are doing to boost the number of American Indians earning Ph.D.s. We also look at the success of a San Jacinto College program that promotes STEM among its underserved minority students. Among other feature articles, we look at the emerging tech scene in Washington, D.C., and what stakeholders are doing to keep diversity at the forefront.

July 31, 2014

Students

Powerball Win Helps Marilyn Fields Spread Her Love for Shaw University

Good fortune allows devoted alumna and employee the opportunity to fully capitalize a scholarship she had started earlier this year.

July 31, 2014

Students

UW Bothell Chancellor Sees Abundance of Opportunity for Underserved on His Campus

Bjong Wolf Yeigh says that about half of the student body is made up of first-generation college attendees and that about 43 percent of the student body are students of color.

July 29, 2014

Students

Booker T. Washington Descendant: Fight for Quality Education Constant

Amanda Washington, Booker T. Washington’s great-great granddaughter, assesses the state of education 50 years after the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

July 1, 2014

African-American

Experts Cite Strides, Struggles for Blacks in Higher Education Since Juneteenth

The program commemorated one of the oldest known celebrations for the end of slavery in the U.S. by highlighting the overarching HBCU significance since 1865 and the fight for equal education post-Brown v. Board of Education.

June 23, 2014

Asian American Pacific Islander

Intervention Programs Having Positive Impact on AAPI Educational Achievement

AAPI community college students who participate in federally funded intervention programs are likelier than nonparticipating peers to earn associate’s degrees.

June 16, 2014

Community Colleges

Equity, Inclusion Take Center Stage at NISOD Conference

NISOD partners with Diverse to launch new awards program.

May 28, 2014

African-American

D.C. STEM Symposium Examines Equity Issue

Assistant secretary of education, College Board president among those weighing in on diversity in STEM.

May 27, 2014

African-American

Kanika Tolver Creating a Path to Success in STEM Fields

Amid a national crisis to recruit skilled professionals to the STEM fields, Kanika Tolver manages not only to represent the scarce number of minorities in STEM, but also emerge as an innovator in information technology.

May 5, 2014

Faculty & Staff

For Minorities’ Educational Needs, Funding Lags Far Behind Effort

Today more than 90 percent of the nation’s population growth is from people of color, yet we are failing to address their educational needs.

May 5, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Ahna Skop

Ahna Skop is an associate professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin- Madison . An artist and expert in microscope techniques for biology, Skop is known for her microscopic images of cells caught in the act of splitting. Her research team focuses on learning the secrets of cell division, hoping to […]

May 1, 2014