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Initiative Aims to Eliminate Gaps Between Rich and Poor Students

Leaders from a group of public urban universities recently launched a new collaborative initiative to improve completion rates and eliminate the gaps between rich and poor students.

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Faculty & Staff

In Case You Missed It…

Even on Final Day on Job, Haynes Still Fighting for HBCUs Disparities in STEM Degree Attainment Remain Key Issue Chicago State Sends Faculty, Staff and Administrators Layoff Notices Education Expert: There’s Not Enough Follow Through on Equity Policies

LSAMP’s Progress in Diversifying STEM Workforce not Exact Science

The program has produced 509,954 holders of STEM bachelor’s degrees among underrepresented minority students but the number who have gone on to work in STEM has proven difficult to ascertain.

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African-American

Disparities in STEM Degree Attainment Remain Key Issue

Education undersecretary Ted Mitchell joined a roundtable conversation Monday on the role that historically Black colleges and universities play in helping diversify the STEM pipeline and workforce at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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Community Colleges

LSAMP Students Tackling Problems That Hit Close to Home

Bugs with a deadly bite. Waterborne pathogens that threaten our health. Bad breath and gum disease. These are some of the practical problems being tackled by students involved in the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation.

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Corporations Beginning to See Value of Supporting HBCUs

Recent headlines have shared historic announcements by many leading corporations of their new commitment to supporting greater diversity in science, technology, engineering and math.

Profile of Nation’s Innovators Doesn’t Mirror Those of Gates, Zuckerberg

Study shows more than a third of U.S. innovators were born on foreign soil, and a similar amount completed their undergraduate education at a foreign college or university.

Changing the Political Rhetoric Surrounding HBCUs

Politics are an important cornerstone of American culture.

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Expert Says Diverse Students Subjected to ‘Intellectual Apartheid’

Zaretta Hammond, who is passionate about helping educators across all racial groups better relate to families of color, shared her experiences at a conference that connected neuroscientists and researchers with K-16 educators.

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University of Kansas Endowment Using Crowdfunding

LAWRENCE, Kan. ― The KU Endowment Association is trying to raise money for smaller projects across campus with a new crowdfunding campaign called Launch KU. The campaign encourages donations for projects such as replacing 10 musicians’ chairs at Swarthout Recital hall or bringing therapy dogs to campus, rather than the yearslong, multimillion dollar campaigns the […]

JESSICA CHEN WEISS

JESSICA CHEN WEISS has been named an associate professor of government at Cornell University. She was an assistant professor of political science at Yale University. Chen Weiss earned a bachelor’s from Stanford University and a doctorate from the University of California, San Diego.

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African-American

Black Students Choosing Low-paying Majors

Although African-Americans have increased access to higher education, African-American students tend to choose college majors that don’t pay very much, according to a new Georgetown study released Tuesday.

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