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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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NJIT Achieves HSI Status and Works to Increase Its Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In this role, he advocates for the necessary resources both in institutional funding and staffing so that services, resources and support can be provided for Latinx students and student organizations. “My Jones proudly notes that NJIT is the only polytechnic institution in New Jersey to have both Research 1 and HSI status.

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Eye to the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is institutional focus on achieving Research One status. Innovative programming continues to grow, and the student body is more diverse than ever. Student groups at Morgan State include organizations for African students, Caribbean students, Latinx students, and international students.

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Biomedicine Student's Ambition Intersects with Passion, Purpose

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He had been inspired towards academic research by Dr. Richard Feynman, the Nobel laureate physicist, and physics was his undergraduate major. As part of the Maximizing Access to Research Careers program, Gonzales did a summer at Duke University, where he studied the optimization of hydrogels to promote the 3D growth of cells.

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AAMU’s STEM boon carves career paths for HBCU students

University Business

Deloitte, Apple, IBM and Google are some of the big-name companies to partner with the school’s STEM field, offering career and skill development training, research opportunities and program funding. As a result, students are leading cutting-edge research and getting hired. IBM has granted four AAMU students so far.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

The Change Leader, Inc.

Students can now spend their first year at City Colleges to take post-secondary courses at community college prices while living on the Illinois Tech campus. They can also join student organizations and participate in activities at Illinois Tech. I grew up in India as a mechanical engineer by profession. Thank God, Drumm.

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Project-Based Learning Ideas for Student Travelers

Experiential Learning Depot

He talks with engineers, city planners, and local political figures. Student Exchange: Connect with another school, student organization, homeschool co-op, etc. to arrange for your students to experience a day in the life of a local student. He talks with locals and visits a water treatment facility.