STEM

Empowering the Inner City by Investing in STEM

September 4, 2019By

Empowering the Inner City by Investing in STEM:

‘The system needs to be blown up,’ Arizona State University president Michael Crow said.

AS THE U.S. News/Raytheon STEM Index found that women, African-Americans and Latinos are still lagging far behind white and Asian men when it comes to earning degrees or finding jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, the head of the National Urban League and leading educators made a forceful call for change.

“You can’t keep doing the same old thing,” Marc Morial, the National Urban League’s president and CEO, told corporate executives, teachers and STEM education leaders gathered Wednesday for the opening keynote of the U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference in Baltimore. “Today is where we must invest, we must dig deeper, we must do more.”

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Digital Divide

The U.S. Economy Needs More Black and Brown Talent in Tech

September 4, 2019By

The future financial success of America is to a large degree, dependent on this country’s ability to train and persuade more people of color to pursue careers in the technology field. 

Let me explain.

Over the next year, city officials and presidential candidates from around the nation will begin to address the 2020 U.S. census. It’s a recurring moment in our history where we are able to survey the makeup of our country, with the goal of adjusting our systems and institutions according to the results of the survey. 

It is from these ethnic groups that will soon make up half of the U.S. population by 2050. Tech industries and education technology programs should be intentional about grooming now — in order to address the shortage of diverse talent in STEM. This way, we can avoid the impending talent shortage, and instead work towards systems that present long-term training and environmental solutions.

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STEM

Striving for Racial Parity in STEM

September 4, 2019By

Georgia Tech’s Gary May: Striving for Racial Parity in STEM

Mentoring and other programs are key to building the ranks of minority and female students in STEM, Georgia Tech’s engineering dean says.

GARY MAY, THE DEAN OF Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering, stood out as an undergrad – and not in the way he wanted.

“You go to your class and you’re the only black kid – that’s fairly stark,” he says.

It’s been more than three decades since that freshman year, yet May’s experience remains painfully familiar to thousands of other students and new hires. Despite years of investment and even some modest progress, women and people of color still lag far behind white and Asian men in science, technology, engineering and math education and hiring, or STEM, according to the 2015 U.S. News/Raytheon STEM Index.

The culprits are legion: historic education and housing policies that robbed schools and whole communities of the resources for robust STEM programs; perceptions of what programmers and mathematicians “should” look like; hosts of implicit and explicit biases.

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Technology

The Tech Bodega looks to close the Digital Divide by Diversifying Technology.

September 4, 2019By

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The Tech Bodega revolutionizes technology in Urban America. Utilizing Technology Hubs we work to destroy the Digital Divide, by creating an educated, engaged, and empowered community. The Tech Bodega – Diversifying Technology

Destroying the Digital Divide! 

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