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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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Finding a Place at an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The research she’s been doing at Morgan State has to do with her time at her alma mater, where she had gone the extra mile to make the school more welcoming for her and other Black and Brown students. Iowa native Juana D. Hollingsworth had always dreamed of attending an historically Black college and university (HBCU). Louis, six hours away.

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The Future is Bright for Indiana University's 15-Year-Old Graduate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology. The rule is you can’t go to college until you have a high school degree. They struggled to find the right school for him in which he could excel, even homeschooling him for a period of time. He’s 15 years old. DVDs at 13 months old.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Work-life balance seeps into discussions on leadership, too

Inside Higher Ed

” The powerhouse group of five panelists included two longtime campus CIOs, one newly appointed CIO, one vice president for digital innovation at a liberal arts college and one émigré from higher ed who now works for Amazon Web Services. “Yay, that’s progress!”

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Oil money undermines academic autonomy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

billion gift to fund the Doerr School of Sustainability, its first new school in 70 years. That same month, Columbia University celebrated its Climate School’s first-ever graduating class. That is to say, the industry has mastered the art of exploiting universities’ credibility to serve its own interests.

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