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Although institutions of higher education have placed a large emphasis on increasing the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students matriculating in higher education, the disparities in STEM retention and graduation rates between URM and non-URM students emphasize the dire need for increased support to help URM students navigate challenges including stereotype threat, impostor phenomenon, and lack of social connectedness that disproportionately affect URM students in majority-dominated f...

Many students whose last years of high school were disrupted by the pandemic are struggling in crucial college courses.

One of the nation’s most influential leaders in higher education, Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, will address the class of 2022 at Drexel’s university-wide commencement ceremony on June 9. In what has become a tradition, Drexel University will return to Citizens Bank Park to celebrate the graduating class in-person. The ceremony will also be live-streamed.

Covid-19 vaccine developer Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett on vaccine hesitancy in the Black community

The Chancellor's Science Scholar's program at Carolina is supporting promising young scientists and actively working to build a more diverse scientific community. That goal, director Thomas Freeman says, is critical to everybody.

While HHMI has promoted diversity through smaller programs for years, its president said the efforts have not been “coherent or systematic.”

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County will retire in 2022 after 30 years of leadership.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, the charismatic educator whose transformational leadership dramatically boosted Black achievement in science and engineering, announced on Wednesday that he will step down as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

NIH releases a plan to confront structural racism. Critics say it’s not enough NIH Director Francis Collins and his colleagues wrote that the agencys plan to confront structural racism was just the beginning of a "monumental task." Graeme Jennings/AP Saying structural racism is a chronic problem throughout biomedical research and within their own walls, leaders of the National Institutes of Health Thursday unveiled a plan intended to eliminate a big gap in grants awarded to w...

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will hold a virtual convocation to recognize the graduating Class of 2021 on Tuesday, May 25, at 3 p.m. This yea