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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Those institutions don’t receive as much research funding from the federal government. Over the past year, the Alfred P.

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MSU Denver Aims to Improve Diversity in Cybersecurity Field

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The NSA is the lead agency in the federal government when it comes to any matters relating to cybersecurity,” Mac Namee said. It has a partnership with Teaching the Autism Community Trades (TACT) , wherein six individuals will work in the center’s Cyber Range , where they will learn the trade through hands-on experience.

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Feds award Bergen Community College $4.5M to grow agriculture education

University Business

The federal government has awarded Bergen Community College a five-year, $4.5 jobs reside within the affiliated industries – including at farms, research laboratories, manufacturers, engineering firms and logistics companies. economic activity ($8.6 trillion) comes from the food and agriculture sector. economic activity ($8.6

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Howard University Takes Affirmative Step, All HBCUs Need More Support

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Forty percent of all Black engineers, 50% of Black lawyers and 80% of all Black judges attended an HBCU. And yet, HBCUs award 17% of all bachelor’s degrees and 24% of all STEM-related bachelor’s degrees earned by Black Americans despite representing just 3% of public and private nonprofit colleges and universities. We can change that.

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American Indian College Fund Receives Near $39 Million for TCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

TCUs are one of the strongest engines of success for Native students: those who attend a two-year TCU are four times likelier to earn a bachelor’s degree than those who attend a mainstream four-year institution out of high school. Most receive no money from their home states, and relatively little from the federal government.

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Why the Defense Department is poised to become HBCUs’ new best friend

University Business

A National Science Foundation (NSF) report found that the Department of Defense’s Federal allocation of colleges’ science and engineering programs topped over $2.5 The USF Institute of Applied Engineering has secured more than $95 million in contract opportunities from the federal government.

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Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences

University Business

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.