Monday, March 2, 2009

IssuesInHigherEd: Get more Latinos in Science

Hispanics, who are the largest minority in the country at 14 percent and growing, earned just 7.5 percent of bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2005, according to a recent report from the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. They earned just 7.5 percent of the bachelor’s in biological sciences that year; 6.8 percent in computer sciences; 6.5 percent in physics; and 5.8 percent in mathematics.

http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_12347.shtml

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