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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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Inclusive classrooms: 3 ways tech creates belonging in higher ed

University Business

Technology is rapidly becoming an invaluable resource for higher education professionals who want to create inclusive classrooms in the age of digital transformation. More than ever, universities are looking for ways to create an inclusive learning environment for all students, regardless of their backgrounds.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The needs of freshmen are also carefully considered, with INSPIRE (Incoming Student Program for Inclusion, Retention and Excellence) as well as student support programs like EOP (Educational Opportunity Program) and EXCEL, which create strong networks of support.

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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. Additionally, STEPS promotes positive cultural change within labs and broader academic settings by implementing inclusive best practices and fostering a supportive community ethos.

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

University Business

Instead of the merely performative inclusion of the social sciences and humanities in STEM curricula (like the proverbial “ethics module” to satisfy accreditation), we create the kinds of integration in which the liberal arts aren’t ancillary, but partners at healing the hyper-specialization and fragmentation of the academy.

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InSciTE Program Teaches Valuable Career Skills to Future STEM Workforce

Insight Into Diversity

The program is overseen by a faculty council with more than a dozen members representing fields from geography and environmental studies to physics and computer science. STEM fields are traditionally not inclusive. We support, we help, we guide.” I know my first year of school, nobody sounded like me. Most did not look like me.

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Building Community, Collaborative, and Cognitive Classroom Culture 

Faculty Focus

By acknowledging the impact of culture on community dynamics, collaborative efforts, and cognitive processes, educators can establish a more inclusive and effective learning environment. Additionally, community culture involves notions of connectedness and exchanges within the group, encompassing concepts such as belongingness and inclusion.