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A quarter of Black graduates with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) degrees come from Historically Black Colleges And Universities (HBCUs), the United Negro College Fund reported. Overall, HBCUs graduate 20 percent of all Black undergraduate students, and over the years, HBCUs have invested more resources into grooming the brightest Black STEM leaders. Black and white students embark on earning STEM degrees at the same rate. Still, The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) found that Black students studying engineering earned only 4.2 percent of bachelor’s degrees in 2012 compared to 68.1 percent of white students. Overall, recent research shows that Black graduates account for only seven percent of STEM degrees. The lack of resources for Black STEM students starts at the K-12 education level. The U.S. Department of Education found that only 50 percent of public schools serving Black students in the U.S. offer calculus, and about 63 percent offer...
The Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative, named for one of Johns Hopkins University’s most beloved figures, has arrived. In a press release announcement, it was revealed that the initiative — made in partnership with Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg Philanthropies — has a $150 million war chest. This war chest is set to address the racial disparity in STEM education, and to bring diversity and inclusion programs within the STEM field into colleges and universities. Specifically, the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative will be investing in students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). In a statement provided in the press release announcement, billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that the growing racial disparity in STEM fields has reached its tipping point, and that the philanthropic arm of his company felt compelled to invest in a program that would address it in a positive,...
Nine University of California (UC) schools and 15 California State University (CSU) campuses were collectively awarded a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation for scholarships to increase diversity in physics and astronomy. Scholarships are awarded to students through the Cal-Bridge program, which helps students from an underrepresented background earn advanced degrees from public universities across the state of California. “To maintain U.S. competitiveness in the global economy, the need to encourage participation from diverse groups of students to produce a highly trained and well-educated STEM workforce is paramount,” said Andrea Johnson , Ph.D., program director of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education.“The NSF is thrilled that the Cal-Bridge program is one of the institutions taking the lead in this endeavor.” From 2013 until 2017, less than 10 percent of Ph.Ds in physics and astronomy were awarded to underrepresented...