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Direct linkBrainard, Jeffrey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Engineers in America are too scarce and too white. That complaint comes from corporate chieftains and education leaders alike, who see those shortfalls as a virtual guarantee that jobs and innovation will head overseas. Now many are looking to remedies to both problems from an unsung source: community colleges. Thanks to low tuition, overall…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Engineering Education, Credits, Engineering
Brainard, Jeffrey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2003
Describes how medical schools hope to improve the Bush administration's low opinion of a 39-year-old federal program, the Health Professions program, that provides money to train minority health professionals. (EV)
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Groups, Medical Education, Medical Services
Brainard, Jeffrey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Membership in the National Academy of Sciences carries great prestige and the chance to advise Congress. This article discusses critics' questioning of why so few female and minority scholars are let in. (EV)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Competitive Selection, Elitism, Females
