The Minority Student Challenge

Minority Challenge of Majority

The AP Challenge Program: Advancing Gifted Minority Student Achievement in High School and Beyond

Improving Underrepresented Minority Student Persistence in STEM

Members of the Joint Working Group on Improving Underrepresented Minorities (URMs) Persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)-convened by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute-review current data and propose deliberation about why the academic "pathways" leak more for URM than white or Asian STEM students. They su...

Minority dental faculty development: responsibility and challenge.

Over at least the last twenty years, the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) has given attention and priority to increasing the number of underrepresented minority (URM) dental school applicants, enrollees, and faculty members and to meeting the challenges of achieving diversity in the oral health workforce of the future as racial and ethnic minorities continue to grow and are expected...

Increasing Minority Student Retention in Introductory Science Courses

COLLEGE SCIENCE TEACHING Many colleges and universities across the United States are facing an extremely important educational challenge—a low number of highachieving minority undergraduates (African American, Hispanic American, and Native American) who successfully persist in premedical and science-based courses of study. This situation poses particular challenges at major research institution...