Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions (2014) / Chapter Skim
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3 The Community of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions
3 The Community of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions
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These institutions provide a critically valuable space where the promises of our democracy are accessible to citizens underrepresented in higher education in a nation experiencing dramatic shifts in demographics. 2 Education within HBCUs/MIs contributes directly to the expansion of a nationally diverse scientific leadership and workforce because it is carried out within models of research and education where access, excellence, and impact 3 are at the heart of their models of education.
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14 In fact, the top 10 baccalaureate-of-origin institutions for African American doctorates in the natural sciences and engineering are all HBCUs: Florida A&M University, Howard University, Hampton University, North Carolina A&T University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, Southern University and A&M College at Baton Rouge, Xavier University of Louisiana, Tuskegee University, and Morgan State University. Nine HSIs are ranked among the top 20 baccalaureate-of-origin institutions for Hispanic doctorates in the natural sciences and engineering: University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras, University of Puerto Rico Humacao, University of Texas El Paso, New Mexico State University System, Florida International University, University of California Irvine, University of New Mexico System, and the University of Texas San Antonio.
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The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) noted that "TCUs have become increasingly important to educational opportunity for Native American students and are unique institutions that combine personal attention with cultural relevance to encourage American Indians/Alaska Natives -- especially those living on reservations -- to overcome the barriers they face to higher education." 20 16 M
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. Overall, 41 percent attend on a part-time basis, although this varies from 84 percent on the Chief Dull Knife campus to 15 percent at the three federally chartered colleges." 21 VALUE OF ARL SUPPORT TO HBCUs/MIs The committee's discussions with administrators, faculty, and students at selected HBCUs/MIs, detailed in Chapter 4, overwhelmingly highlighted the positive, sustained impact that ARL limited funding for research to HBCUs/MIs has had in providing inspiring opportunities for URMs, supporting the scientific infrastructure, reshaping STEM curricula, recruiting research faculty, and using the institutions' relationships with ARL to leverage incipient yet critically important relationships with industry and foundations.
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Despite these deficits, however, HBCUs/MIs have persevered to fulfill their mission of educating students, and those with research missions have continually sought support to develop scientific and technological research that would propel them into the mainstream of the nation's research universities. Their participation over the past decade in the ARL grants program has been a vital stimulus for the research and development work of a few prominent engineers and scientists at HBCUs/MIs, offering them advancement and providing their institutions the prospect that over time, if the support is sustained and enhanced, they will join the ranks of the nation's prominent research universities that make important scientific and technological discoveries and allow our nation to lead the world militarily and otherwise.
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