{"id":9263,"date":"2018-07-23T09:10:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T13:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:50","slug":"u-m-ncid-changing-stem-to-encourage-minority-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/23\/u-m-ncid-changing-stem-to-encourage-minority-students\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M NCID: Changing STEM to encourage minority students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9294\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9294\" class=\"wp-image-9294 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1.jpeg\" alt=\"woman holding laptop standing next to server rack\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1-125x83.jpeg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/woman-standing-while-carrying-laptop-1181354\/\">(Christina Morillo\/Pexels)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/ncid-aims-transform-stem-underrepresented-minority-students\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Center for Institutional Diversity is taking a multi-pronged approach<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through research and scholarship to increase underrepresented minority students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he NCID, which is housed in LSA, is leading this effort because STEM fields remain mostly homogenous despite programs designed to support students of underrepresented minorities. The center is creating scholarship, supporting other scholars in their work, and promoting evidence-based practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tabbye Chavous, NCID director, stated that \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[t]hrough this multi-pronged approach, we hope to have an impact, not just through our scholarship, but also by supporting and preparing leaders to create lasting change at institutions across the country.\u201d To help achieve this, events are planned throughout the year to promote cross collaboration across units on campus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NCID is working on a national level as well as across campus. The center sponsors the Growing STEM Knowledge Community, consisting of faculty and staff at U-M who has advise the NCID. The NCID is also partnering with the American Council on Education to produce a blog series, Campus Climate and STEM Success, to inform approaches that will increase enrollment, retention, and success of marginalized students in STEM fields. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The National Center for Institutional Diversity is taking a multi-pronged approach through research and scholarship to increase underrepresented minority students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The NCID, which is housed in LSA, is leading this effort because STEM fields remain mostly homogenous despite programs designed to support students of underrepresented minorities. The center is creating\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/23\/u-m-ncid-changing-stem-to-encourage-minority-students\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":9294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[174,527,188,362],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-lsa","tag-ncid","tag-people","tag-stem"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1.jpeg",640,427,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1-125x83.jpeg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1.jpeg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1.jpeg",600,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1.jpeg",640,427,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1.jpeg",640,427,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1-200x140.jpeg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1-60x42.jpeg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1-640x300.jpeg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1.jpeg",640,427,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pexels-photo-1181354-1.jpeg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Samantha DeRosia, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/srderosi\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"&nbsp; The National Center for Institutional Diversity is taking a multi-pronged approach through research and scholarship to increase underrepresented minority students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The NCID, which is housed in LSA, is leading this effort because STEM fields remain mostly homogenous despite programs designed to support students of underrepresented minorities. 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