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Exporting Degrees, Importing Responsibility: Rethinking Careers Support for International Graduates

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The reality is, universities have a far greater role to play in empowering international graduates to thrive not just within the UK, but globally. By empowering our international alumni to ‘pay it forward’, we generate a virtuous cycle of mentorship, opportunity, and success. At UEL, we are committed to this vision.

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Student Success in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While women have achieved parity in some STEM fields, such as biological sciences, they remain underrepresented in high-paying and high-demand areas like engineering and computer science. These disparities highlight significant challenges.

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Initiative Empowers HBCU Students and Alums as Entrepreneurs

Insight Into Diversity

That feeling motivated Olawepo, a senior at Alabama A&M University majoring in computer science and software development, to create career networking software that helps connect students and alumni from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The culture is different [at HBCUs],” he says. “The

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Announcing 1 degree pathway, 8 Professional Certificates, and 20 new and upgraded GenAI certs and Specializations

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These partnerships enhance our ability to deliver job-relevant content for learners around the world, empowering them to meet the rapidly changing demands of the labor market. Students will use industry-standard tools like Python, Tableau, and Pandas in practical computing challenges and activities.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In an effort to address underrepresentation in computer science, the department received an HSI-NSF grant aimed at increasing retention and completion rates for Latinx students through a peer mentoring program. Much of this work is through our Equity Priority directives that aim to eliminate equity gaps.”

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

Participants engage in research using statistics and computer science to analyze real-world data on diseases like cancer and COVID-19. Working with Adelphi professors and research assistants, students tackle projects from the epidemiology of ALS, Parkinson’s, and heart disease to infectious disease modeling.

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Law Project Advocates for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Insight Into Diversity

Also created by SIDDLAPP is the Lanterman Transparency Tracker, an interactive tool under development by students like Antonio Milane, a Stanford sophomore majoring in computer science. The initiative, launched in 2019, was inspired by Alison D.

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