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Cooper, Kenneth J. – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
Stacyann Morgan got into biomedical engineering through a simple Google search. She got through an undergraduate program in the emerging field thanks to a federally-funded program that provided multi-layered support to Black and Latino students at City College of New York. Starting in 2001, the National Institutes of Health funded the Minority…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Engineering, Biomedicine, Doctoral Programs
Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
This article discusses the initiatives of Purdue University President France Cordova in boosting minority and female representation among administration and students and in improving overall undergraduate performance. Dr. France Cordova is by no means the first college president to declare increasing the presence of women and minorities on campus…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, American Indians, Engineering
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
This article presents a list of the top Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degree producers in the U.S. This list is broken down into seven categories: (1) Total Minority Research/Scholarship and Other Doctoral: Mathematics and Statistics; (2) Total Minority Bachelors: Biological and Biomedical Sciences; (3) Total Minority…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Minority Group Students, Higher Education, STEM Education
Pember, Mary Annette – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2008
George Thomas, a Cherokee and an eager young graduate student at the University of Oklahoma in the 1970s, was discouraged to learn that American Indian students were openly discouraged from pursuing areas of higher education that involved "hard science." Thomas had been recruited by the university to serve as the director of its new program,…
Descriptors: National Organizations, Organizational Culture, American Indians, American Indian Education
Horwedel, Dina – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
For the first time in the 30-year history of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, the organization is focusing on the nurturing of scientific talent in preschoolers and very young children. SACNAS, whose mission is to encourage Chicano/Latino and American Indian students to pursue graduate education and advanced…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study, Engineering, Educational Opportunities
Galuszka, Peter – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
One of the most prominent engineers and entrepreneurs in the country, Dr. Randal D. Pinkett keeps a high profile on issues related to minorities, technology and education. The holder of five degrees, Pinkett has built an academic record that includes a doctorate and MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was also named a…
Descriptors: Internet, Minority Groups, Access to Computers, Access to Information
Roach, Ronald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
From its earliest years, Tuskegee University, known initially as Tuskegee Institute, navigated the higher education landscape with considerable skill. Shifting after its 1881 founding from a state-controlled teachers' institute to an independent, state-related college by the 1890s, Tuskegee qualified as one of the 18 historically Black schools…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Engineering, Federal Aid, Educational History
Roach, Ronald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
Many major corporations and national organizations have been pointing to the need for improved K-12 and collegiate opportunities for minorities since the early 1970s. They have argued that such an infrastructure would be necessary to provide Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians and others with the background to enter the science and engineering…
Descriptors: Corporations, Labor Force, Graduation Rate, Human Capital