Yale Center for Teaching and Learning
Diversity and Education Series
Speaker: Dr. Richard Tapia
Professor in Engineering and Director of the
Center for Excellence & Equity in Education
Rice University
Co-host: Julie Dorsey
Title: Crisis in Representation in STEM Higher Education: A Need for New Understanding and New Leadership
Abtract:
Dr. Tapia’s remarks will focus on the successes and failures of the nation’s tier 1 universities regarding representation at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels in science, engineering, and mathematics. Dr. Tapia will also discuss challenges he’s faced throughout his journey from being born in Los Angeles to parents who immigrated from Mexico to his trip to the White House to receive the 2011 National Medal of Science from President Obama. “Underrepresentation is a much greater danger to the health of the nation than it is to the health of the discipline,” said Dr. Tapia.
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