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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. 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.

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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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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

A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. Do more to engage and empower your students. This idea was brought to the American colonies largely by graduates from Cambridge and Edinburgh.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

The MasterCard Foundation—whose work is focused on empowering youth in Africa and Canada’s Indigenous populations— began funding scholarships for CMU-Africa in 2016 and has been involved with the institution ever since. As of now there are seven universities participating in the program; CMU hopes to grow that to 10.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

BlackPlayBook performs within a womanist/Black feminist tradition on a “play-ground” of Black performance, scholarship and activism, which she shares with her drama students. “We We practice theater as scholarship, as performance and as activism,” Akbar said. It empowers students to tell the stories that they want to tell.”

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

With the integration of the BSDT, Clark is positioned to empower scholarship, pedagogy and innovation related to creative arts, media, design and technology. There was a clear strategic fit. Third, foster buy-in from members of the community and open up opportunities for collaboration and growth.