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Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computerscience, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution.
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Meanwhile, equity gaps persist, with graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients and Black and Latino/a students roughly 10 points lower than among non–Pell Grant recipients and white and Asian American undergrads. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Yet the problems go deeper.
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Frank Harris III, professor of postsecondary education and co-director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab at San Diego State University. Dr. Frank Harris III, professor of postsecondary education and co-director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab at San Diego State University.
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