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Student Success in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Positions such as data scientists, medical and health service managers, physician assistants, and epidemiologists highlight the immense potential need for students entering these fields. To ensure equity in STEM education, colleges and universities must take proactive steps to recruit, support, retain, and graduate minority students.

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Help Wanted

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Ohio State University College of Nursing uses its Summer Institute for Future Nurses as a recruiting tool for high school students. At the conclusion of the strike, Montefiore Medical Center released a statement noting that the new contract includes a wage increase and more than 170 new nursing positions.

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Women in STEM: Perception Versus Reality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. The National Girls Collaborative Project’s 2023 “State of Girls and Women in STEM” report revealed much of the same.

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Columbia University Reaches Out to HBCUs for Fellowship Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But through information sessions, graduate fairs, and partnerships with groups like the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), Columbia has been making a deliberate effort to recruit students more broadly. Being able to use NYC as a springboard to whatever industry or career, that's what makes this particular fellowship stand out a lot."

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2025 CAPD FAQs for Family & Supporters

CAPD

students can pursue any internships as long as they also engage in the more important experiences to medical schools like clinical experiences (e.g. Regardless of what field the internship is in, it will still demonstrate a variety of transferable skillsets medical schools desire in an accepted applicant.

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McKinsey, Recruiting Advanced Professional Degree Candidates

CAPD

Learn more about our recruiting process and opportunities to become a full-time Associate. Advanced Professional Degree (APD) represents candidates who are postdocs or working toward the following degrees: PhD, MD (including medical interns, residents and fellows), JD, PharmD, Nursing, and non-MBA Masters.

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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

University Business

A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found increased soft skills competencies in students whose medical education was integrated with the humanities and arts. With one of its main pillars being academic renewal, DePauw renamed its liberal arts college to the College of Liberal Arts and Science.