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STEM

The Top 100 Interpreting the Data

Substantial growth continues in both the number and percentage of students of color obtaining master’s…

July 12, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Doctoral Program Produces 300th Minority Graduate

A program created in 1993 to stem the shortage of minority faculty at university campuses, especially in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines, has recently produced its 300th Ph.D.

July 5, 2006

International

Survey: CEOs Fear International

Chief executive officers of the country’s 100 fastest-growing science and technology companies fear international companies…

May 31, 2006

STEM

Companies Fail To See Value of Minority, Women Scientists

Chief executive officers of the country’s 100 fastest-growing science and technology companies fear international companies will gain a competitive advantage if they have access to the U.S.’s best scientists and technical workers, according to a survey released this week.

May 11, 2006

STEM

Survey: American Girls Aren’t Interested in STEM Careers

The Chicago-based Society of Women Engineers has released a survey that indicates 75 percent of American girls have no interest in pursuing a career in science, math or technology…

April 5, 2006

STEM

Minority Students Face Obstacles Earning STEM Degrees, Says ACE Study

Black and Hispanic students are just as interested in careers in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields as White and Asian students…

April 3, 2006

African-American

A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

In his best-selling book The World Is Flat, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman examines the technological and social shifts that have leveled the economic world…

February 8, 2006

STEM

Science, Technology High Schools to Open in Texas As Part of Statewide Initiative

The Texas High School Project (THSP) — supported by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation…

January 11, 2006

Community Colleges

Government Questions Effectiveness Of STEM Expenditures

About $2.8 billion from nearly every federal cabinet department went into 207 education programs…

November 16, 2005

HBCUs

SEF Report Finds Black Colleges Helping To Meet Nation’s Science Imperatives

Black colleges in the South are producing close to one-fourth of the nation’s African-American college graduates

October 5, 2005

Faculty & Staff

Princeton Changes Tenure Policy To Stem ‘Mommy Trap’

Princeton University has adopted a new policy that automatically grants male and female faculty extra time

September 21, 2005

HBCUs

SEF Report Finds Black Colleges Helping Meet Nation’s Science Imperatives

Black colleges in the South are producing close to one-fourth of…

September 12, 2005