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Catalyzing systemic change: Team will use $1.3 million in funding to reduce racial disparities in STEM graduate programs

Posted by Heather Tate on March 7, 2022

Partnership between NAU-Flagstaff, NAU-Yuma and Diné College will address educational inequities on an institutional level

Catherine Propper and RISe student working in the labAccording to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 10 percent of all M.S. degrees were awarded to Latinx students between 2015-16, and a stunningly low 1 percent to Indigenous students. The… Read more

Filed Under: College of Arts and Letters, College of Education, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Educational Leadership, Department of English, School of Forestry, STEM

Are English-language tests fair? With two grants, NAU linguist studies the need for varieties of English in tests, learning apps

Posted by Heather Tate on April 19, 2021

Okim Kang showing research on computer screenIn the English language, there is not one correct way to pronounce the word “pecan.”

In English-language-learning apps and tests, there is. That means students who pronounce it differently are assessed that it’s wrong.

Okim Kang, a professor of applied linguistics with a long history of research into how accents… Read more

Filed Under: College of Arts and Letters, Department of English

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