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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lomax UNCF’s new research report, Transforming Futures: The Economic Engines of HBCUs , offers empirical evidence of the profound impact HBCUs have on the success of students, communities and the nation as a whole. HBCUs have a 34% mobility rate of moving their students from the bottom 40% in household income into the top 60%.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess

Higher Education Inquirer

This lesson is especially important if the US government decides to get out of the student loan business or reduce government oversight of student loans. From 1965 to 2010, the federal government was a backstop for private student loans, Guaranteed Student Loans, also known as the FFEL loans.

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