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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). Instead, these tools should guide and empower students.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). workforce participation growth between 2010-2020, the report noted. of engineering doctorate recipients.

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Black Enrollees at HBCUs More Likely to Obtain Bachelor’s Degrees

Insight Into Diversity

million Black students who took the SAT between 2004 and 2010. This trend in part is due to the increased likelihood of HBCU students pursuing high-earning majors, such as those in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.

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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

University Business

Integrating the arts into STEM (“STEAM”) has been in discussion since at least 2010, when the Rhode Island School of Design helped pioneer it. Administered by the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, aerospace engineering students learned lessons in collaboration, communication and innovative thinking.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are financial support programs, including emergency grants, technology loaner programs and device voucher support, which provide students with necessary in-time financial support. Data informs decisions across key areas and workforce preparation for high-demand, high wage fields like IT, nursing and engineering.

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Study: 'Disruptive' science is on the decline

Inside Higher Ed

This trend downward “represents a substantive shift in science and technology, one that reinforces concerns about slowing innovative activity,” says the analysis , published this month in Nature. For their study, the authors analyzed 25 million papers in Web of Science databases published from 1945 to 2010, along with 3.9

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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans.

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