{"641028":{"#nid":"641028","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"To help diversify STEM faculty, Berkeley-led model goes national","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf underrepresented groups make up 30% of the increasingly diverse U.S. population, why do they represent less than 5% of the faculty nationwide, less than 6% of postdoctoral scholars and only about 10% of Ph.D. students in key STEM fields \u0026mdash; mathematical, physical and environmental sciences, and engineering?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe UC Berkeley-led\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.california-alliance.org\/\u0022\u003ECalifornia Alliance\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;knows some of the reasons why, and the successful model program it has built with partners Stanford University, UCLA and Caltech during the past six years to help transform these ranks is now going national. Today, the alliance has become the Research University Alliance \u0026mdash; a new, nine-university partnership, including Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2020-11-05 17:16:21","changed_gmt":"2020-11-05 17:16:21","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Friendsgiving","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2020\/10\/27\/to-help-diversify-stem-faculty-berkeley-led-model-goes-national\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"}],"keywords":[{"id":"736","name":"diversity"},{"id":"183166","name":"representation"},{"id":"186206","name":"underrrepresented groups"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}