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Industry and STEMM Leaders Convene for White House Summit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

My experience pursuing a career in STEM has made me only more dedicated to ensure that there is a better path available for my children and children like mine,” Lagares-Greenblatt said. People think it is an honor to be the only one in the room, to be the sole person who may identify yourself as a girl in a class or in a room like this.

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Renowned UC Berkeley Sociology Professor Killed in Oakland Hit-and-Run

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

His research took him across the globe, from copper mines in Zambia to machine shops in Chicago and Hungary, and industrial facilities in post-Soviet Russia. Burawoy's academic journey at UC Berkeley began in 1976, and over the next 47 years, he would become one of the institution's most influential scholars.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. The precipitous, unrelenting decline in Black community college enrollment since 2011 is the canary in the mine for American higher education. But we need to look closer at the data.

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

University Business

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. Working with historically black colleges and universities.,

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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Educators from a variety of community colleges shared how student success and sense of belonging is vital to meeting their local workforce needs, and how their unique geographic locations, demographic growth, and regional needs have influenced how they connect with big industry and small to mid-sized businesses.

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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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How HBCUs and businesses can inspire the next generation of data scientists

University Business

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.