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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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Choosing a college: 10 most important reasons for students

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and then correlated it with 80 institutional characteristics to determine the most significant drivers of student interest, the firm says. The report encourages leaders of smaller schools to make strategic investments in new academic programs, student organizations and athletics.

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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 There is a chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers on campus.

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Biomedicine Student's Ambition Intersects with Passion, Purpose

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Looking to find out more, he sent emails to 10 Duke professors, asking about the biomedical program, and seeing if he could meet students in it. “I I was amazed at how cool and how different the research in biomedical engineering was,” he said. “I I’ve been very fortunate.”

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Eye to the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Student groups at Morgan State include organizations for African students, Caribbean students, Latinx students, and international students. Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes.

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AAMU’s STEM boon carves career paths for HBCU students

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. “AAMU is known for pumping out the largest number of diverse minority STEM students, and these companies are recognizing the great work we’re doing and they want to get involved,” said AAMU computer science professor Dr. Ed Pearson.

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President’s corner: Bridgewater College wants to change the narrative on higher ed

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[link] Communicating college value better Bridgewater College is doubling down on its commitment to the student experience. It recently completed its “next-generation library,” a $13 million redesign and expansion of a learning commons focused on academic support and student organizations.