{"72014":{"#nid":"72014","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Top Producer of African-American Engineers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology is the top overall producer of African-American engineers in the United States, according to \u003Cem\u003EDiverse: Issues in Higher Education\u003C\/em\u003E magazine\u0027s annual college rankings report.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the 2005-2006 academic year, Georgia Tech was ranked No. 1 in undergraduate degrees in engineering awarded to African-American students with 120 degrees, up from 117 during the 2004-2005 academic year.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther top five degree producers at the undergraduate level include North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Southern University and A\u0026amp;M College and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These rankings represent Georgia Tech\u0027s continued efforts to attract and graduate top minority students in engineering,\u0022 said President G. Wayne Clough. \u0022Given the growing need in our state and around the nation for talented citizens, we are proud of Tech\u0027s role as a national leader in creating and maintaining a supportive educational environment for minority students.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech was also the No. 1 producer of African-American doctoral graduates in engineering with 11 graduates, up from 4 the previous academic year.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther top five producers of African-American doctoral engineering graduates include Morgan State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Florida and North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech was No. 2 in engineering master\u0027s degrees awarded to African-American students with 28 degrees, down slightly from 29 during the previous academic year when Tech held the top spot.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe top spot for master\u0027s degrees awarded to African-American engineering students is now held by North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University, a historically black university. Other top five producers include Southern Methodist University, University of Florida and University of Michigan.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EConsidered by Georgia Tech to be an important tool to measure the success of campus diversity initiatives, the rankings underscore Tech\u0027s efforts to create a diverse campus through strong recruitment and retention practices. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These rankings are a truly meaningful measurement of Georgia Tech\u0027s continued efforts to create an educational environment where minority students can thrive,\u0022 said Dr. Gary May, chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and founder and director of Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (FACES), a program designed to encourage minority engagement in engineering and science careers. \u0022Georgia Tech\u0027s performance over the past decade in producing African-American engineers at all degree levels has been phenomenal.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of Tech\u0027s most successful minority recruitment projects is FOCUS, an annual event designed to attract the country\u0027s finest minority undergraduates to its graduate programs. Each year, African-American students from more than 80 colleges and universities across the nation attend the three-day series of lectures, tours, panel discussions and social events. The event, which is held annually during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, is now in its 16th year. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Georgia Tech has a solid relationship with the historically black institutions in the Atlanta area that make up the Atlanta University Center, which include Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College, Spelman College, Morehouse School of Medicine and the Interdenominational Theological Center. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDiverse: Issues in Higher Education\u003C\/em\u003E, a publication that covers minorities in American higher education, used statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Education to compile the rankings edition. The special report identifies the top 100 minority degree producers among institutions of higher education and is the only national report of U.S. colleges and universities awarding degrees to African-American, Latino, Asian-American and Native-American students. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe report was released as a two-part series spotlighting undergraduate and graduate statistics. Graduate and professional degree statistics appear in the July 12 edition of \u003Cem\u003EDiverse\u003C\/em\u003E. Undergraduate statistics were released in the magazine\u0027s June 1 edition.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is the top producer of African-American engineering graduates in the United States, according to recently released rankings from \u003Cem\u003EDiverse: Issues In Higher Education\u003C\/em\u003E.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech ranked No. 1 by Diverse: Issues in Higher Ed"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2007-07-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72015":{"id":"72015","type":"image","title":"African-American graduate","body":null,"created":"1449177425","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:05","changed":"1475894649","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:09"}},"media_ids":["72015"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.diverseeducation.com\/","title":"Diverse: Issues in Higher Education"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.focus.gatech.edu\/","title":"FOCUS program at Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.faces.gatech.edu\/2007\/","title":"FACES program at Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2335","name":"African-American engineers"},{"id":"2338","name":"Diverse: Issues in Higher Education"},{"id":"2337","name":"FACES"},{"id":"2336","name":"FOCUS"},{"id":"834","name":"Rankings"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}