Friday, February 14, 2014
Caltech is one of four California universities that have founded a new consortium—the California Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate—to support underrepresented minority graduate students in the STEM fields of mathematics, the physical sciences, computer science, and engineering. Led by UC Berkeley, and including UCLA, Stanford University, and Caltech, the alliance was created to address the fact that minority students enter STEM fields in disproportionately low numbers and that as a group their progress slows at each step in their academic careers.
Read the full story: Caltech News