Tag: STEM: Page 31

Students

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.

April 6, 2010

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.

April 1, 2010

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.

March 28, 2010

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 […]

March 25, 2010

STEM

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.

March 22, 2010

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.

March 21, 2010

African-American

Obama Proposal Seeks to Consolidate Minority Undergraduate STEM Programs

Weighing a new approach for assisting minority college students in the sciences, the Obama administration has proposed the National Science Foundation consolidate major initiatives that target specific racial and ethnic groups for participation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines into a single program.

March 10, 2010

STEM

New STEM Initiatives, National Science Fair Touted by White House

President Barack Obama said he would convene a national science fair next year to honor young inventors with the same gusto that college and professional athletes celebrate their victories at the White House.

November 23, 2009

Students

New Minority Engineering Leader Stresses K-12 Exposure to Careers

Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail, president and CEO of the National Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), says developing more elementary and secondary school initiatives that help steer under-represented minority students into undergraduate engineering programs will be a high priority during his tenure.

October 29, 2009

Students

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Will They Come?

Colleges are anxious to see if new recruiting and retention efforts can stem rising tide of ‘economic dropouts.’

September 16, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Study Finds Minorities Underrepresented in Graduate School

To broaden the participation of graduate studies among underrepresented minorities, graduate studies programs must go beyond simply recruiting students from diverse groups and provide students with the support and resources needed to graduate, says a new report released by the Council of Graduate Schools.

April 23, 2009

Latinx

What Will It Take To Increase Hispanics in STEM? Money, of Course

The National Science Foundation came to Hispanic-serving institutions for advice Sunday on the best way to tackle the dearth of Latinos in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

March 1, 2009