By J. Luke Wood

A quantity in modern views in Race and Ethnic family sequence Editors:M. Christopher Brown II, Alcorn nation collage and T. Elon Dancy II, collage of Oklahoma because the U.S. makes a speciality of positioning itself to keep and improve its prestige as an international chief in know-how and medical innovation, a acceptance that neighborhood schools are a severe web site for intervention has turn into obvious. neighborhood faculties serve the lion's proportion of the nation's postsecondary scholars. actually, forty% of all undergraduate scholars are enrolled in neighborhood faculties, those scholars account for almost 30% of all STEM undergraduate majors in postsecondary associations. those scholars function a center portion of the STEM pipeline into four-year schools and universities through the group collage move functionality. furthermore, neighborhood schools are the first postsecondary entry element for non-traditional scholars, together with scholars of colour, first-generation, low-income, and grownup scholars. it is a rather salient aspect on condition that those populations are sordidly underrepresented between STEM graduates and within the STEM staff. expanding luck between those populations can give a contribution considerably to advancing the nation's pursuits in STEM. As such, the neighborhood university is positioned as an enormous website for leading edge practices that experience robust implications for bolstering the nation's creation and sustenance of a STEM exertions strength. In popularity of this position, the nationwide technology starting place and personal investment businesses have invested thousands of greenbacks into examine and courses designed to reinforce the STEM pipeline. From this investment and different independently subsidized inquiry, promising courses, tasks, and study ideas were pointed out. those efforts carry nice promise for switch, with the capability to remodel the schooling and end result of STEM scholars in any respect degrees. this crucial ebook discusses a lot of those promising courses, projects, and research-based innovations that could effect the good fortune of STEM scholars in the neighborhood university. This compilation is well timed, at the nationwide panorama, because the federal executive has put expanding value on bettering STEM measure creation as a technique for America's destiny balance in an more and more aggressive international industry. educated by way of examine and idea, each one bankruptcy during this quantity blazes new territory in articulating how group schools can enhance results for college kids in STEM, rather these from traditionally underrepresented and underserved groups.