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From HHMI: Doubling Down on Diversity

    Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-01-0018

    In spite of modest gains in the past four decades, the United States has not been able to substantially improve on the pervasive underrepresentation of minorities in postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pathways. We suggest a way to guide a national effort to double the persistence of underrepresented minorities in STEM in the next decade.