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i was reading the newspaper the other day and came across an article that read FVSU AWARDED GRANT TO PUSH MATH AND SCIENCE. it was actually good to read the article because the money was given to a program that i was once part of. i changed my major because i realized what the members of sigma tau delta openly state- "english is better than math." it's just an opinion, but everyone is entitled to their own right? it's just nice to see that there's someone who cares about the direction hbcu's, especially fort valley state, are headed in. here's the article:
FVSU awarded grant to push math, science
By Ayanna McPhail TELEGRAPH STAFF WRITER
FORT VALLEY - Fort Valley State University has received a $1.5 million federal grant to encourage women and minorities to pursue opportunities in math and science.
For 22 years FVSU, a historically black university, has been recruiting, educating and preparing such students for high-tech industries that have sometimes gone overseas to find talent to fill a void of math and science skills.
"America has not been doing a good job of getting its students to major in these fields," said Isaac J. Crumbly, associate vice president for collaborative programs at Fort Valley State and director of the Cooperative Development Energy Program. "While these programs are targeting minorities, there should be an even larger effort by the nation to target all youngsters."
Crumbly attributes the lack of Americans entering fields such as engineering to a fear of math.
"Kids tend to think that math is hard," he said.
His mission has been to train students, starting with those in ninth grade, to embrace math and science, so they can prepare for such jobs as chemists, geoscientists and health physicists.
High school students are educated for free during summers at colleges in places such as Nevada, Texas and Oklahoma. They take field trips out of town and study math.
Some of the students later attend Fort Valley State with full scholarships and enter the Cooperative Development Energy Program, which allows them to pursue two undergraduate degrees - one from FVSU and one from an institution that offers majors unavailable at Fort Valley.
They are also groomed for internships where they create contacts for future jobs.
Students do not have to participate in the pre-college program to get involved in CDEP.
"FVSU has established a national niche among institutions of higher learning for recruiting and preparing minority and female students to pursue technical careers in the energy industry. This grant further solidifies FVSU's leadership in this area," Crumbly said.
CDEP has graduated 42 engineers, 18 geoscientists and four health physicists since 1997, according to a news release from the program. It was born in 1983 in response to an initiative by the Department of Energy's Office of Minority Economic Impact.
The government requested proposals from colleges and universities for academic programs that would open doors for blacks and women in the energy industry.
U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Va., has been supporting the FVSU programs since 1993. The reason is simple, said Diane Noserale, a spokeswoman for the agency.
"Science has always been a field where you need a diversity of viewpoints," she said. "When you're a science organization, you have to look at people who can bring a different approach to a problem. Soliciting people who come from different backgrounds are going to bring you that."
Some FVSU alumni said CDEP was a good opportunity for students because they were groomed for jobs they heard about through the program, had the opportunity to travel and didn't have to worry about paying back school loans.
"I think I definitely benefitted from it. I really don't know how I could have gotten where I am without it," said Jason Lawrence, now an electrical engineer for a government contracting company in Las Vegas.
Since James E. Love graduated six years ago, he wants to keep the pipeline of FVSU engineers flowing.
"Doc's vision was to basically get us to graduate and get us involved in the energy field," Love said of Crumbly. "So once we got involved and moved up, it would be easier to get other people in. We have that responsibility as graduates to keep continuing to recruit academically talented minorities and to keep the pipeline going."
The two-year, $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration will support scholarships and the pre-college summer outreach program.
FVSU was chosen from a pool of 44 applicants. Seven other historically black colleges and universities also received grants.
FVSU awarded grant to push math, science
By Ayanna McPhail TELEGRAPH STAFF WRITER
FORT VALLEY - Fort Valley State University has received a $1.5 million federal grant to encourage women and minorities to pursue opportunities in math and science.
For 22 years FVSU, a historically black university, has been recruiting, educating and preparing such students for high-tech industries that have sometimes gone overseas to find talent to fill a void of math and science skills.
"America has not been doing a good job of getting its students to major in these fields," said Isaac J. Crumbly, associate vice president for collaborative programs at Fort Valley State and director of the Cooperative Development Energy Program. "While these programs are targeting minorities, there should be an even larger effort by the nation to target all youngsters."
Crumbly attributes the lack of Americans entering fields such as engineering to a fear of math.
"Kids tend to think that math is hard," he said.
His mission has been to train students, starting with those in ninth grade, to embrace math and science, so they can prepare for such jobs as chemists, geoscientists and health physicists.
High school students are educated for free during summers at colleges in places such as Nevada, Texas and Oklahoma. They take field trips out of town and study math.
Some of the students later attend Fort Valley State with full scholarships and enter the Cooperative Development Energy Program, which allows them to pursue two undergraduate degrees - one from FVSU and one from an institution that offers majors unavailable at Fort Valley.
They are also groomed for internships where they create contacts for future jobs.
Students do not have to participate in the pre-college program to get involved in CDEP.
"FVSU has established a national niche among institutions of higher learning for recruiting and preparing minority and female students to pursue technical careers in the energy industry. This grant further solidifies FVSU's leadership in this area," Crumbly said.
CDEP has graduated 42 engineers, 18 geoscientists and four health physicists since 1997, according to a news release from the program. It was born in 1983 in response to an initiative by the Department of Energy's Office of Minority Economic Impact.
The government requested proposals from colleges and universities for academic programs that would open doors for blacks and women in the energy industry.
U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Va., has been supporting the FVSU programs since 1993. The reason is simple, said Diane Noserale, a spokeswoman for the agency.
"Science has always been a field where you need a diversity of viewpoints," she said. "When you're a science organization, you have to look at people who can bring a different approach to a problem. Soliciting people who come from different backgrounds are going to bring you that."
Some FVSU alumni said CDEP was a good opportunity for students because they were groomed for jobs they heard about through the program, had the opportunity to travel and didn't have to worry about paying back school loans.
"I think I definitely benefitted from it. I really don't know how I could have gotten where I am without it," said Jason Lawrence, now an electrical engineer for a government contracting company in Las Vegas.
Since James E. Love graduated six years ago, he wants to keep the pipeline of FVSU engineers flowing.
"Doc's vision was to basically get us to graduate and get us involved in the energy field," Love said of Crumbly. "So once we got involved and moved up, it would be easier to get other people in. We have that responsibility as graduates to keep continuing to recruit academically talented minorities and to keep the pipeline going."
The two-year, $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration will support scholarships and the pre-college summer outreach program.
FVSU was chosen from a pool of 44 applicants. Seven other historically black colleges and universities also received grants.
posted by Greg at 12:01 PM
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now if we could just get everybody who used to care back to a point of caring... this university will truly be something greater than the founders strived for.
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