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HL Petcovic, SP Turner, EG Ward, T Cartwright… - 2015 - scholarworks.wmich.edu

Geo-Needs Focus Group Meetings Report Executive Summary.

STEM and "broadening participation"

Cartwright, Petcovic, Ward

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Despite a significant investment of resources, underrepresented minorities constitute~ 8% of the geosciencerelated workforce, making the geosciences one of the least diverse of all science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. While this pattern of underrepresentation has been attributed to numerous factors, the Geo-Needs project is focused on lack of access to undergraduate courses and programs of study at two-year technical and community colleges (2YCs) and minority-serving institutions (MSIs). Based on …

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