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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). anticipates a coming shortage of workers in engineering and tech – there are projected to be 10.9 are immense.

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Learning Assistantships

The Scholarly Teacher

2016) and enhance their communication skills (Goff & Lahme, 2003). LAs can increase their own content knowledge and intellectual competence (Gomez Johnson et al., 2021; Close et al., Ellerbrock, C., Falbe, K., & Pomykal Franz, D. An examination of middle school organizational structures in the United States and Australia.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. 16, 2003) 5. From Opening Doors to Opening Minds,” Aug. White House Honoree, Jan. Mississippi’s Crusading Gadfly,” Jan.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Floyd Hall—home to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences facility— named in honor of the school’s sixth and first African American president to lead WMU. From 1998 to 2003, Floyd served the university before going on to lead the University of Missouri and Washington State University.

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How micro-credentials are spurring deeper collaboration between community college and employers

University Business

Local adult learners and veterans seeking to diversify their skillsets in other high-demand careers have turned to the community college in droves since it opened in 2003. The latter cover semiconductors, AI engineering and EV batteries. “It’s the great unbundling,” Larson says.

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Ralph Gilles of Stellantis Named 2024 CCS Commencement Speaker

College for Creative Study

As a key member of the global Top Executive Team and the Stellantis Global Diversity Council, Gilles works to engineer a more inclusive and harmonious workplace as the executive sponsor for two employee business resource groups, the Stellantis African Ancestry Network Diaspora and the Working Parents Network.

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Two from MIT awarded 2024 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

CAPD

Riyam Al Msari Riyam Al Msari, born in Baghdad, Iraq, faced a turbulent childhood shaped by the 2003 war. As a PhD student in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering, Al Masri conducts research in the Irvine and Wittrup labs to employ engineering strategies for localized immune targeting of cancers.