{"72791":{"#nid":"72791","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech A Top Producer of African-American Engineers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is the top producer of African-American engineers at the master\u0027s degree level, according to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine\u0027s annual college rankings report.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the 2004-2005 academic year, Georgia Tech was ranked No. 1 in master\u0027s degrees in engineering granted to African-American students, with 29 degrees, up from 26 last year, when Tech also held the top spot.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther top five degree producers at the master\u0027s level include North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University and the University of Michigan, each with 26 degrees, and Old Dominion University and Southern Methodist University, each with 20 degrees.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These rankings illustrate Tech\u0027s commitment to graduating top minority students in engineering,\u0022 said President Wayne Clough. \u0022We are proud of Georgia Tech\u0027s national leadership role in this area and even more proud of the success of our minority graduates.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech was ranked No. 2 in bachelor\u0027s degrees awarded to African-American engineering students with 117 degrees. North Carolina A\u0026amp;T University, a historically black university, held the top spot this year.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech shared the No. 3 slot for doctoral degrees with Vanderbilt University, George Mason University and the University of Florida. Each school granted four doctoral degrees to African-American engineering students during the 2004-2005 academic year. The No. 1 spot was held by the University of Maryland, followed by the 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 Diverse rankings underscore Tech\u0027s efforts to create a diverse campus through strong recruitment and retention practices.\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, 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\u003EDiverse: Issues in Higher Education, 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 13 edition of Diverse. Undergraduate statistics were released in the magazine\u0027s June 1 edition.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is the top producer of African-American engineers at the master\u0027s degree level, according to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine\u0027s annual college rankings report.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech leads nation in master\u0027s degrees"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2006-07-31 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:42","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72792":{"id":"72792","type":"image","title":"New Georgia Tech Graduate","body":null,"created":"1449177962","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:02","changed":"1475894665","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:25"}},"media_ids":["72792"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.diverseeducation.com\/Index.asp","title":"Diverse Online"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.focus.gatech.edu\/","title":"FOCUS program at Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}