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Why There Are Few Women & African Americans in STEM

Why There Are Few Women & African Americans in STEM

A recent study says while 84% of STEM department chairs at leading universities say recruiting and retaining women and minority STEM undergraduates is important to their institution’s chancellor/president, only 33% report their colleges have a comprehensive STEM diversity plan with recruitment and retention goals in place.

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Angelique Nelson is a recent college graduate with a job. She was hired as a food service manager with Sodexo’s Currey Ingram Academy in Brentwood, Tennessee, less than a month after graduating from the University of Central Florida with a degree in event management. Although her mother worked for the company for 25 years, most recently as a general manager at North Carolina Central University, Nelson’s interest was piqued at a college career fair. “The recruiter made me want to pursue it more because of her enthusiasm and interest,” says Nelson. “Once I started doing research and found out [Sodexo’s] mission and values, I just knew this was somewhere I wanted to go.”

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