For example, Does the increase of
Black graduates stem from improved achievement or increased population?
Not exact matches
Their findings, published in American Psychologist (September 2004), demonstrated that although those who declined enrollment in the Meyerhoff Program often attended highly regarded HBCUs and Ivy League institutions, they were significantly less likely than Meyerhoff students to pursue and complete science Ph.D. s or M.D. / Ph.D. s. «If current Ph.D. receipt rates of program
graduates continue,» Hrabowski says in American Psychologist, «UMBC will in all likelihood become the leading predominantly white baccalaureate - origin university for
black STEM Ph.D. s in the nation.»
But what shocked Williams was that the school's ranking was based on
graduating only four
black students a year for the past decade — out of a
STEM class of roughly 3000.
Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its
black and Latino
graduates who major in
STEM
There are also student programmes launched by the IPA; for example, AdMission provides a ten week paid placement for
STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and BAME (
black, Asian and minority ethnic)
graduates and final year students.