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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

KCU faculty members joined the program that includes mentorship, case presentations, curriculum information, how to take a medical history, a suture clinic, and identity workshops. Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering and Technology First-Generation Summer Start Scholars Program St.

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Why liberal arts leaders should know STEM isn’t the enemy

University Business

The course is taught by and apportions equal teaching time to a computer scientist and a technical communication faculty. The inclusion of a liberal arts perspective empowers students to graduate with an increased awareness of the cultural and social implications of computing. More from UB: Had enough with the status quo?

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

For all the talk about equity and access, a growing share of institutions restrict access to their honors colleges, research programs, and high demand majors, partly as a way to attract and retain coveted students and in part to improve departmental rankings in especially popular fields like business, computer science, engineering, and nursing.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Inside Higher Ed

That’s a big question about the purpose of writing—not one we can delegate to computer science. Mina Lee, doctoral student in computer science, Stanford University. Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University. Delegate Responsibilities. Remind Students to Think.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

STEM ALL IN Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences (CECAS) STEM ALL IN empowers participants to pursue STEM graduate degrees through on-campus experiences, educational sessions, and network building. Chicago, Ill.; and Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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CREATE-ing a More Accessible World Through Technology

Insight Into Diversity

A recent grant, for example, “brings together experts from computer science, rehabilitation medicine, and the information school, illustrating the center’s interdisciplinary approach,” she explains. Accessibility has a long history of leading to cutting-edge advances that benefit everyone,” she says.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. It empowers students to tell the stories that they want to tell.” In addition to visual and performing arts majors, she’s gotten cohorts of students from animal science, the vet tech program, computer science and biology.