{"id":25096,"date":"2013-10-21T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=25096"},"modified":"2013-10-21T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:42:11","slug":"ohio-colleges-get-3-5-million-to-boost-stem-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/10\/21\/ohio-colleges-get-3-5-million-to-boost-stem-grads\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio colleges get $3.5 million to boost STEM grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eleven colleges and universities in Ohio will split a $3.5 million grant to help them boost the number of minority graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>The funding from the National Science Foundation creates an alliance among the schools to, within five years, double the number of minority students graduating with bachelor\u2019s degrees in STEM fields. Ohio State, Wright State, Central State, Cleveland State, Miami and Wilberforce universities; the University of Cincinnati; and Sinclair, Columbus State and Cuyahoga community colleges; and Cincinnati State Technical and Community College make up the alliance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasing participation in the STEM disciplines is crucial to our nation\u2019s future and its economic development,\u201d said Nathan Klingbeil, dean of the Wright State College of Engineering and Computer Science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiversifying the pool of STEM graduates not only means more talent, but will also bring a variety of backgrounds and career choices that will strengthen the foundation of science\/engineering\/technology skills our region and nation so desperately need,\u201d said Klingbeil, who is heading Wright State\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/ohio-colleges-get-35-million-to-boost-stem-grads\/nbRd9\/\" target=\"_blank\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Eleven colleges and universities in Ohio will split a $3.5 million grant to help them boost the number of minority graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The funding from the National Science Foundation creates an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/10\/21\/ohio-colleges-get-3-5-million-to-boost-stem-grads\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25099,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25096\/revisions\/25099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}