Maura Borrego

Professor

Initiative Focus
Inclusive Teaching and Learning
Student Success

Department
Mechanical Engineering
College
Cockrell School of Engineering
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Hispanic STEM Transfer Student Challenges and Resources

Cohort: 2016
Fellow: Maura Borrego

In 2012, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology documented the need to prepare an additional one million STEM professionals over the next ten years. To achieve this increase in STEM degree production, attention must be directed towards improving pathways for all students, specifically minority students who have been historically underserved. Research has indicated a need to focus on these underrepresented groups in STEM settings as enrollment patterns and access to higher education differs between groups of students.