Cultivating diversity and competency in STEM: Challenges and remedies for removing virtual barriers to constructing diverse higher education communities of success

Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Whittaker, Joseph A ^a   Montgomery, Beronda L ^b  

^a Department of Mathematics   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Higher education; Minority achievement; Pipeline; STEM degrees; Under represented minorities (URM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880268219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15442896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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