Tuesday, October 6, 2015

STEM Initiative to Focus on Minority Women, Girls

By Ronald Roach, Diverse Issues in Higher Education

With a high-profile announcement from the Obama administration last month, a consortium of 10 colleges and universities and nine nonprofit organizations led by Arizona State University researchers has launched a national initiative to “identify and scale effective evidence-based strategies to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) diversity in the nation’s colleges and universities with a special focus on women and girls of color from underrepresented communities.”

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