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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Announcing Coursera’s 2024 Outstanding Partner Achievement Award Winners

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Career Transformation Award This award recognizes the partner whose course best achieves transformational career results for learners, as informed by Coursera’s Learner Outcomes Survey. Your creativity, perseverance, and passion continue to push the boundaries of what education can achieve. Watch the keynote.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

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“I then thought, because I was very good in math and science, perhaps I could become an engineer and design an airplane for others to pilot,” said Lim, who joined the NJIT in July 2022 as its ninth president and a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.”

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NJIT Achieves HSI Status and Works to Increase Its Impact

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The goal was to achieve these numbers by 2025, but NJIT hit its target by the spring of 2024. Whether it’s engineering, computing, business management or architecture, there are ways in which to build a DEI agenda in each of those particular disciplines.” There is a chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers on campus.

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Howard Community College Receives $2.5M from Famed Couple

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million gift upon Howard Community College in support of programming and scholarships in its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) division. million gift upon Howard Community College to help support it science, technology, engineering, and mathematics division.

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EDHEC to focus on ‘four verticals’ through strategic hub in India

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Our second ambition is to recruit more Indian students with an engineering background as we have launched a couple of programs in the past few years, which require a strong quantitative background. So when Macron was talking about achieving the target, we believe he was talking about the university system.”

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10 U.S. Universities Selected to Advance Systemic Change in Doctoral STEM Education

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National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 The Sloan Foundation is also supporting each institution’s participation in the Equity in Graduate Education Consortium , a networked improvement community that equips participants with research, tools, and change management strategies to achieve systemic change.

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