Another first FIU can now claim is the appointment of Yuk Ching Tse Dinh as the first woman at FIU to achieve a top leadership position in research as director of an Emerging Preeminent Program.
Two noted FIU emeritus professors, Irma Alonso and Meri-Jane Rochelson, were involved in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS).
FIU’s Diversity Mentor Professor Initiative is a special program aimed at recruiting multiple excellent STEM faculty with strong research programs to FIU.
Women hold almost two-thirds of the nation’s student-loan debt, nearly $900 billion of the $1.4 trillion total, with black women holding the highest average debt of any racial, ethnic, and gender group among graduates who completed bachelor’s degrees.
Dr Suzanna Rose of Florida International University (FIU) is breaking down the barriers that women and minorities face in taking up faculty positions within higher education institutions.