Change in the Air: UC Santa Barbara joins group of 19 universities dedicated to a three-year effort to diversify faculty in STEM fields

Portrait of Sharon Tettegah
Thursday, January 21, 2021
 

UC Santa Barbara joins group of 19 universities dedicated to a three-year effort to diversify faculty in STEM fields.

Sharon Tettegah has spent a good chunk of her career advocating for greater diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. A professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Black Studies and director of the campus’s Center for Black Studies Research (CBSR), she’s at the center of three national initiatives that aim to benefit faculty and students alike.

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