Johnson was joined by Kim A. Wilcox, chancellor of University of California—Riverside, and Ricardo Romo, president of the University of Texas—San Antonio for a panel discussion on June 29 at the U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference in San Diego. Mark D. Vaughn, manager for the Technical Talent Pipelining for Corning's Technology Community and lead for the Technology Community Office of STEM, moderated the discussion on why historically black colleges and Hispanic-serving institutions produce a large percentage of underrepresented minorities who study and then work in science, technology, engineering or math.
Having strong programs that help minorities get into and succeed in college is one way these schools have successfully helped to grow the numbers of minorities in STEM, panelists said.
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