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Black Issues in Higher Education, 1999
Two tables provide corrected data on the top schools in the number, percent, and group membership of minority baccalaureate degrees awarded (1998) in engineering; and the top schools in the total number, percent, and gender of minority master's degrees awarded for all disciplines combined (1996-97). (DB)
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Engineering, Engineering Education, Higher Education
Lum, Lydia – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
This article provides an overview of the accomplishments of Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Treena Livingston Arinzeh. It describes her exemplary work on stem cell research; her educational roots; and her work helping develop undergraduate and graduate curricula for the fledgling biomedical…
Descriptors: Engineering, Biomedicine, Curriculum Development, Educational Background
Malveaux, Julianne – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
What was Larry Summers thinking? The Harvard president, as well known for his brilliance as for his tactlessness, must enjoy the taste of shoe leather, given the frequency he puts his foot in his mouth. Some "off the record" remarks he made at a research meeting of the National Bureau of Economic Research got him excoriated in the electronic and…
Descriptors: Women Scientists, Engineering, Gender Differences, Females
Hamilton, Kendra – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
In the battle to increase the numbers of African American Ph.D.s in science, technology and engineering, the nation may just have a secret weapon: historically Black colleges and universities. The statement may sound improbable. After all, only a handful of the nation's HBCUs offer doctoral programs. And education has long been the field of choice…
Descriptors: Engineering, Doctoral Programs, Black Colleges, African American Students
Payton, Fay Cobb – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
At the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels of education, mentoring programs for underrepresented minorities have shown some rates of success in upping the numbers. The central focus of initiatives such as The PhD Project, Florida Education Fund, Southern Regional Education Board and National Society of Black Engineers is mentoring.…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Engineering, Minority Groups, Sciences
Keels, Crystal L. – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
In recent years, the lack of underrepresented groups pursuing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines at the graduate level aroused the concern of some far-sighted advocates. When confronted with this noted absence, however, many colleges and universities traditionally responded with the argument that qualified students from…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, American Indians
Farrell, Charles S. – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1992
College facilities management offers a wide variety of job opportunities and generally provides as lucrative benefits as are available to top college administrators and professors, usually without a need for advanced degrees. There are three primary career areas (engineering, architectural, business management) but a wide array of opportunities…
Descriptors: Architecture, Black Education, Building Operation, Business Administration
Roach, Ronald – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
The individual stories of scholars of South Asian descent are as divergent as the communities, countries of origin and cultural traditions from which they and their families originate. Though their numbers are believed to trail those of their counterparts in business, science and engineering fields, U.S. scholars of South Asian descent are adding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Humanities, Engineering