Eleven student groups at the University of Tennessee are all calling on leadership to fire a professor who wrote a racist acronym on the whiteboard during class.
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The National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) is a partnership between corporations, government laboratories, research institutions and universities that enables underrepresented students to pursue graduate education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Since its founding in 1976, GEM has helped over 4,000 African American, Native American, and Hispanic Americans attend graduate school. With leadership from Graduate Dean’s Faculty Fellow for Diversity and Inclusion Dawit Negussey, Syracuse University has accelerated its support for the GEM program in the past three years, recruiting 12 GEM Fellows for master’s and Ph.D. degree programs since 2018. Five GEM Fellows are expected to enter graduate school in fall 2021.
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The tech industry does not have a reputation for being an inclusive space for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) working in IT and STEM jobs. While companies have made efforts to increase diversity in tech in the past few years, the statistics still paint a grim portrait of the diversity gap that persists in the tech industry.
White people comprise around 68% of the tech industry, far outpacing representation of Asian Americans (14%), Hispanics (8%) and African Americans (7%), according to data from the Diversity in High Tech report published by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. White tech workers also benefit from disproportionate representation in executive roles (83%), while African Americans hold only 2% of tech executive roles and Asian Americans hold around 11%.
Cal Poly graduate and astronaut Victor Glover spoke with Black engineering students from his alma mater today while aboard the International Space Station.