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Industry and STEMM Leaders Convene for White House Summit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The “sobering reality” is that there is inequity in STEMM education and pay in this nation, said OSTP Director Dr. Arati Prabhakar, noting that, on average, Black workers in STEM are paid 78% and Hispanic workers in STEM are paid 83% of what their white counterparts make. “We Let's sign up to greater data transparency.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. But we need to look closer at the data.

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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Educational leaders discuss how to partner with businesses on the third day of the Dream Conference. The Dream conference is hosted annually by Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education. Stout, president and CEO of ATD.

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Interdisciplinary Gamified Teaching of Critical Metals

The Scholarly Teacher

c) Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 80401, United States. Key Statement: Introducing systems involved in sourcing critical metals needed for technology using bingo and mining flash cards can engage science, geography, and economics classes alike.

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Data scientists: How HBCUs and businesses can inspire the next generation

University Business

education sector. Partnering with HBCUs In 2023, FICO created an analytic challenge relevant to aspiring Black data scientists that would give them a taste of the real-world problems we work to solve in the financial services industry. There has been progress; for example, while comprising 11% of the U.S. share of the US population.

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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

SRHE

I recovered in time to travel to Helsinki for a symposium two days later, but winter storms shut down the airport, delayed flights and lost luggage, including mine. Following the positionality of multiply-minoritised researchers in higher education Angel L. Universities, watch and learn. Yes it can be done.

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Higher Education Innovation That Builds Workforce-Ready Graduates: Changing Higher Ed podcast 250 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Alex Hernandez

The Change Leader, Inc.

March 11, 2025 · Episode 250 Higher Education Innovation That Builds Workforce-Ready Graduates 40 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. Using Employer Input to Drive Relevance and Results Champlain actively engages industry partners to shape its programs. He is a fierce advocate for education opportunity, access, and innovation.