{"id":63667,"date":"2017-08-10T14:29:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T00:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=63667"},"modified":"2019-03-11T11:30:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:30:27","slug":"stem-women-faculty-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/10\/stem-women-faculty-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"More than $1 million strengthens support for STEM<\/abbr> women faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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The National Science Foundation<\/a> (NSF) has awarded $1,099,959 to the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> to support the advancement of women and minorities in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields at its seven community colleges.<\/p>\n

A partnership between UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges<\/a> and UH<\/abbr> Hilo<\/a>, the project will use virtual tools to connect remote island campus locations in mentoring and coaching trainings for administrators and senior faculty. The program will also implement a mentoring and coaching program for women STEM<\/abbr> faculty of diverse race and ethnic backgrounds.<\/p>\n

“The UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges system is grateful for this important federal funding,” said Suzette Robinson<\/strong>, director of academic programs for UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges.“Providing greater resources to train UH<\/abbr> women faculty in STEM<\/abbr> disciplines will further advance our commitment to building a cadre of strong, diverse role models who will serve as mentors to help develop our future STEM<\/abbr> leaders.”<\/p>\n

While STEM<\/abbr> educations and careers often lead to higher paying job opportunities, it is currently predicted there will be a job shortage in STEM<\/abbr>-related fields. The project seeks to identify and address challenges to the retention and career progress of STEM<\/abbr> women faculty of diversity.<\/p>\n

“Developing a strong, diverse STEM<\/abbr> workforce is critical to Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s future economic viability and our nation\u2019s long-term competitiveness on the global stage,” said Senator Hirono in a news release announcing the NSF<\/abbr> grant. “By supporting STEM<\/abbr> women and minority faculty, this funding will promote a more diverse faculty on Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s college campuses and in turn will create a greater more encouraging learning environment for all of our students—strengthening our STEM<\/abbr> workforce pipeline.”<\/p>\n

For more information, read Senator Hirono\u2019s news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Science Foundation has awarded $1,099,959 to support the advancement of women and minorities in STEM fields at UH’s seven community colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[61,62,63,64,65,313,71,14,60,947,66],"class_list":["post-63667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-stem","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63667"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92293,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63667\/revisions\/92293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}