Charles Colen
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, AR·Education Research
Many STEM students graduate without a clear path to research careers or to starting technology businesses. This gap is especially wide at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), where strengthening STEM training can widen who becomes a scientist or entrepreneur.
- Fields
Education Research
Social Science
- Topics
STEM education
historically Black colleges and universities
undergraduate retention
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2027
What they work on
- Establish a STEM Academy for Research and Entrepreneurship that combines science and business training and builds faculty skill in high-impact practices that engage students.
- Increase four-year STEM graduation rates and entry into graduate school, guided by socialization theory and social learning theory.
- Increase the number of STEM graduates who start entrepreneurial ventures, and assess how the academy's activities affect students' career paths.
More about the research
This project asks how combining science and business training can help more students graduate in STEM and move into graduate school or entrepreneurship.
Why it matters
Students at a historically Black university could gain clearer routes into graduate research and technology entrepreneurship. Lessons on how combining science and business training affects graduation and career paths could help other institutions strengthen STEM education. This could increase the number and diversity of STEM researchers and business leaders.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Eddie Red
Morehouse College, GA·Education Research
Investigate how HBCUs with diverse academic cultures graduate African American STEM students at higher rates than other institutions, using convergence research across the Morehouse, Spelman and Virginia State hub and about fifty partner HBCUs.
Melanie Van Stry
Lane College, TN·Education Research
Redesign foundational STEM courses at an HBCU with active learning and course-based research, and train faculty in these teaching methods.
Madhura Kulkarni
Northern Kentucky University, KY·Education Research
Create and assess a "4C" fellowship for underrepresented and transfer STEM students that combines scholarships with co-mentoring, community building, career development, and research experiences.
The school
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff: 1 labs on PI Pages, $8M a year on research, 1 research doctorates a year.
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