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STEM

Business Groups Push to Increase STEM Graduates

Describing our “scientific and technical capacity” as one that’s “beginning to atrophy even as other nations are developing

September 7, 2005

STEM

Report: More Effort From NSF Needed For Science and Engineering Diversity

In a newly released report, “Broadening the Participation in America’s Science and Engineering Workforce,”

September 7, 2005

STEM

The Top 100: Interpreting The Data

Black Issues examines the Top 100 institutions that awarded graduate degrees during the 2003-2004 academic year Story:

September 6, 2005

HBCUs

Howard, Other HBCUs Launch Initiative in Teaching and Learning

Howard, Other HBCUs Launch Initiative in Teaching and LearningWASHINGTONThe Howard University Graduate School has joined Jackson State University, Talladega College and Xavier University of Louisiana in a major initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Titled “Learning Communities for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Academic Achievement […]

December 15, 2004

STEM

Science, Technology Professions Showing Mixed Progress for Women

Science, Technology Professions Showing Mixed Progress for WomenBy Ronald Roach Growth over the past two decades for women in scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) jobs has seen uneven progress, according to a report from the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology (CPST). Analyzing employment data of women in STEM professions from 1983 to […]

November 3, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Bridging the Gap

Bridging the Gap National Science Foundation initiative eases the transition from undergraduate to graduate studyBy Crystal L. Keels In recent years, the lack of underrepresented groups pursuing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines at the graduate level aroused the concern of some far-sighted advocates. When confronted with this noted absence, however, many colleges and […]

July 28, 2004

STEM

Making STEM Careers More Accessible

Making STEM Careers More AccessibleIn its July 2003 publication of Women, Minorities and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering, the National Science Foundation (NSF) reports that high-school completion and college enrollment among African Americans and Hispanics continues to increase. NSF goes further to convey that these groups have shown an upward trend in completion […]

March 10, 2004

Latinx

New National Task Force to Address Lack of Hispanics in Science, Technology

New National Task Force to Address Lack of Hispanics in Science, Technology SAN ANTONIOA new task force of leading experts in advanced science education outreach to minority college students has been formed to address the need to increase the ranks of Hispanics in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.With a $100,000 grant from the National […]

October 8, 2003