{"id":74928,"date":"2021-04-17T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74928"},"modified":"2021-04-17T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:16:10","slug":"even-as-colleges-pledge-to-improve-share-of-engineering-and-math-graduates-who-are-black-declines-newsome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/04\/17\/even-as-colleges-pledge-to-improve-share-of-engineering-and-math-graduates-who-are-black-declines-newsome\/","title":{"rendered":"Even as colleges pledge to improve, share of engineering and math graduates who are Black declines [Newsome]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/even-as-colleges-pledge-to-improve-share-of-engineering-graduates-who-are-black-declines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Even as colleges pledge to improve, share of engineering and math graduates who are Black declines<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Melba Newsome; with thanks to Ryan Craig for this resource<br \/>\n<em>The supply of Black scientists, engineers and mathematicians is flat or falling even as demand goes up<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Black enrollment in STEM fields \u2014 science, technology, engineering and math \u2014 is among the issues that urgently demand attention, said Cato Laurencin, CEO of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. \u201cWe need to move from talking about the issue of Blacks in STEM and systemic racism to making concrete changes,\u201d Laurencin said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The proportion of bachelor\u2019s degrees in science awarded to Black graduates remained flat at about 9 percent from\u00a02001\u00a0to\u00a02016, according to the most recent available figures from the National Science Foundation; in engineering, it declined from 5 percent to 4 percent; and in math, it dropped from 7 percent to 4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is a scandal. If colleges and universities truly cared about diversity, they would take a hard look at the many barriers that are keeping underrepresented minorities from entering and succeeding in their highest value programs.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YUopEZMsTu\">https:\/\/t.co\/YUopEZMsTu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Craig (@ryancraigap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryancraigap\/status\/1382002779187683331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as colleges pledge to improve, share of engineering and math graduates who are Black declines &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Melba Newsome; with thanks to Ryan Craig for this resource The supply of Black scientists, engineers and mathematicians is flat or falling even as demand goes up Excerpt: Black enrollment in STEM fields \u2014 science, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[851,82,3,46,7,163,83,480,293,80,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-engineering","category-higher-education","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-mathematics","category-science","category-society","category-sociology","category-stem-related","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74932,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74928\/revisions\/74932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}