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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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More professors now embrace Wikipedia in the classroom

Inside Higher Ed

Besides, he decided, many patients rely on Wikipedia to research medical concerns, and doctors who ignore that reality are fooling themselves. He decided to design and teach an elective course at the medical school on Wikipedia editing. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

“It’s kind of like in medical school when they talk about the ‘half-life of knowledge.’ ’ The medical school dean tells graduates, ‘In five years, half of what we tell you will turn out to be false,’” said Alexei Efros, computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Federal earmarks a boon for higher ed

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa received a total of $95 million, including $50 million for an endowment fund to support the recruitment and retention of science and engineering faculty. Magazine treatment: Trending: Trending text: $1.7 He earlier secured another $76 million for the project in the fiscal year 2022 budget.

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Howard University Takes Affirmative Step, All HBCUs Need More Support

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

HBCUs send more Black applicants to medical schools than predominantly white institutions, including the Ivy League schools. Forty percent of all Black engineers, 50% of Black lawyers and 80% of all Black judges attended an HBCU. We can also do more than that.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . Minority Male Initiative — Broward College. Bridging Gaps for First-Year Latinx Students — Case Western Reserve University. The university’s Louis D.

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Work-life balance seeps into discussions on leadership, too

Inside Higher Ed

Another panelist, Jenn Stringer, applied after college to be a Lutheran pastor and spent the early part of her career as a librarian at Stanford University’s engineering school. While she was pregnant with her second child, a mentor there took her aside and suggested she apply for a more senior position at the medical school.