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California Community Colleges Launch Initiative to Expand Shortened Courses

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The shortened course initiative directly aligns with Vision 2030, the strategic plan for California Community Colleges, which emphasizes supporting students through flexible modalities. As the largest system of higher education in the nation, California Community Colleges serves 2.1 million students annually across 116 colleges.

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VUU Webinar Discusses NSF Funding and STEM Research at HBCUs

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Recent data projects that nearly four million additional people will be needed in 2030 for the science and engineering workforce to be representative of the U.S. population, Moore added. Moore listed numerous NSF scholarships and programs beneficial to HBCU research in fields including STEM, data science, and computing.

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Pathways for Careers in Manufacturing and Engineering, a joint effort from Cal State Fullerton’s Extension and International Programs and the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has received $211,000 to spark community college students’, high schoolers’, and eventually, middle schoolers’ interest in the field of biomanufacturing.

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A Scholar Who is ‘Extending the Hand as He Climbs’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But PSU’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) cultural groups helped him become acquainted with research, and, in 2018, he received an internship with the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). He continues to work with 2030 STEM, a thinktank that aims to diversify the STEM fields.

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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Multiple academic studies have demonstrated that encouraging children to pursue a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) career gives them a distinct business advantage later in life. According to Dell Technologies, professionals believe that 85% of STEM jobs that will be needed in 2030 don’t exist currently.

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As we are preparing our students for skills in artificial intelligence, we know that by 2030 there will be new positions that we don’t even know what they’re called at this point, but we want our students to be ready.” We graduate the very highest number of Black engineers, Black women engineers, Black agriculturists,” says Smith-Jackson.

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Carnegie Mellon Launches $150M STEM Diversity Initiative

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Carnegie Mellon University announced today a $116 million donation from the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation to help underrepresented students pursue graduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.