The sponsoring program for the research, NIH's Intramural NIAID Research Opportunities (INRO) Program,
supports underrepresented minority students interested in pursuing a research career in allergy, immunology, or infectious diseases.
They find that eligibility for automatic admission increases the likelihood that students in the top 10 percent of their class,
including underrepresented minority students, enroll at a Texas flagship university by almost 60 percent.
According to data collected since the program's inception a decade ago, the number of STEM degrees earned by
underrepresented minority students at VA - NC Alliance partner schools has increased by more than 150 percent.
In June 2015, she received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from President Obama, for her work increasing the number of
underrepresented minority students earning doctoral degrees in STEM fields.
Instead, she went home and taught organic chemistry and calculus in a UC Santa Cruz program aimed at supporting
underrepresented minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors — something she thought she'd enjoy while figuring out her next step.
Most underrepresented minority students begin their journey in higher education at community colleges, and minority Ph.D. holders across all fields are more likely than whites to have begun their careers at a community college.
I had been teaching and promoting science education efforts for more than 10 years, through interactions
with underrepresented minority students from elementary school to postdoctoral levels, with the assistance and mentorship of caring people who extended countless opportunities to me throughout my career.
Francisco Samaniego, a Mexican - American professor of statistics at the University of California at Davis, hopes to encourage
more underrepresented minority students to consider careers in statistics.
Adams is was one of the founders of GEM, the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (headquartered at the University of Notre Dame), a group of universities and corporations founded in 1976 to support fellowships for
underrepresented minority students in science and engineering.
Retention and completion rates won't increase until universities provide better academic, social, and financial support for
underrepresented minority students, the report declares.
According to the National Science Foundation,
underrepresented minority students — African American, Latino / a, and Native American students — represent 24 percent of the undergraduate community, but earn just 16 percent of all science and engineering Bachelor's degrees and 6 percent of Ph.D. s.
This summer internship program provides experience in research laboratories to
underrepresented minority students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds that have completed two or more years of college.
Mathematician Joaquin Bustos, who directs the MARC program at Arizona State University in Tempe, worries that
some underrepresented minority students would be pushed aside if the program were opened up to everybody.
All three programs support research training for educational institutions with a substantial population of
underrepresented minority students, and their Web pages each contain a policy statement, supplemental instructions, frequently asked questions, and a list of participating institutions.
Just like Next Wave, MiSciNet will rely on students, mentors, faculty members, and administrators to share their own stories and their own perspectives, providing — over time — an increasingly valuable resource for
all underrepresented minority students and those committed to supporting their aspirations.
D. Bridge Program: Recognizing, enlisting, and cultivating unrealized or unrecognized potential in
underrepresented minority students», American Journal of Physics, 79, 374.
Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or
underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.
The story is different for
underrepresented minority students (in this case operationalized as black and Hispanic students).
Data from this system show that using these programs: • increases educational achievement • encourages students to take more college - preparatory courses in high school • increases students» college readiness • promotes educational and career planning • promotes college readiness of
underrepresented minority students • promotes educational achievement in college, college enrollment, and persistence in college
Syverud's testimony indicated that when a critical mass of
underrepresented minority students is pres -