This year, NACME also awarded more than 30 NACME STEM Innovation grants worth $1,000 each to K-12 teachers in schools all over the country.
According to the report, only about 1.3 percent of the available pool of minority high school graduates earn engineering degrees from America’s colleges and universities each year.
Though Hispanics are expected to account for 25 percent of the U.S. population by the mid-21st century, the gap in educational attainment for Hispanics relative to Whites has widened. Data also suggest that Hispanics are losing interest in engineering and are opting to pursue other fields of study such as business and the social sciences.
American Indian faculty are also a rarity in the STEM fields. According to the report, American Indians compose less than 1 percent of engineering faculty, and only one engineering college dean in the United States is known to be American Indian.
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