Latino Issues
NASA-MUST Program Aims To Propel Students Into STEM Disciplines
Latinos are among the students targeted by the NASA-funded program that involves the Hispanic College Fund along with the United Negro College Fund, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, the Association on Higher Education and Disability and the Institute for Broadening Participation.
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STEM Watch
Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, a Senior Analyst at Abt Associates, a policy research organization, writes about the national imperative of building and sustaining a diverse STEM pipeline.
In terms of postsecondary degree completion, the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) landscape largely resembles American higher education on the whole. Despite more low-income students and underrepresented minorities seeking and completing STEM degrees, there remains great inequity between these groups and the country’s majority middle- and upper-income populations.
In addition to racial/ethnic and socioeconomic classification, the dividing lines of inequity can also be drawn by geographical region.
A recent report by the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program sheds comprehensive light on the current condition of America’s population centers by way of immigration, migration, households, and workforce (in addition to more traditional measures like race/ethnicity).
Although not addressing the STEM education pipeline in particular, State of Metropolitan America: On the Front Lines of Demographic Transformation, speaks to social, educational, and industry settings in cities across the country—regions also home to potential generations of diverse STEM professionals. The report both confirms often d...
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Civil Rights Project: California Maintains Segregated Community College System
The vast majority of Black and Latino students in California are being subjected to a “segregated” community college system where very few transfer to four-year institutions, researchers charged Tuesday as they released three reports.
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Hispanic Education Highlighted at Twitter Town Hall Meeting
During a Twitter Town Hall hosted by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, more than 400 tweeted questions and received answers related to Hispanic education.
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Emerging Scholars: Cell Biology Pioneer – Magdalena Bezanilla
The ninth profile in a 12-part series on prominent young scholars is that of Dr. Magdalena Bezanilla, who is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts.
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Nursing Program Aims To Train Minority Students for Service in Rural Areas
Built on more than a year of outreach and recruitment at minority-serving institutions, the federally funded PRIDE program has attracted 26 students to Frontier Nursing University who are training as either nurse practitioners or nurse midwives.
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