To all the undergraduate and graduate students returning to school this fall. This is a great opportunity to refresh your focus on academics and restart your path to achieving your goals. And while you are only reading this because you are connected to SHPE, please be sure to balance your SHPE-work with your school-work. The most important thing you can do for our community is to achieve your goals and become a model for others to emulate. So when you have to make a decision between completing SHPE objectives or studying for an exam, the exam should take priority.
Today, only about 54% of Latinos who start a STEM degree, finish it in 5 years. I know this is not true of our intelligent, resourceful and well connected SHPE student members. But it is all of your job to make sure we change that statistic for our community. This will take the combined efforts of our undergrad, graduate and professional members.
Graduate students must connect with our undergrads and share your best practices and coach our undergrad student in academic discipline. Professionals must be involved with our student chapters and at a minimum, share with them their career success and give them a light at the end of the tunnel.
Yes, we have a lot of work to do this year with community outreach, and I'm not asking you to stop doing this. What I'm asking is for all of you to think about balance. Do the hard work of delegating, coaching and share in the work and the success of your chapter together. If we all work together, we can achieve our community goals and our academic goals.
I am very proud of all of you for taking on the most challenging majors and the most rewarding careers. I look forward to meeting you all at the SHPE National Conference (if you can reschedule your interfering midterms) and hearing about all your successes.
Today, only about 54% of Latinos who start a STEM degree, finish it in 5 years. I know this is not true of our intelligent, resourceful and well connected SHPE student members. But it is all of your job to make sure we change that statistic for our community. This will take the combined efforts of our undergrad, graduate and professional members.Graduate students must connect with our undergrads and share your best practices and coach our undergrad student in academic discipline. Professionals must be involved with our student chapters and at a minimum, share with them their career success and give them a light at the end of the tunnel.
Yes, we have a lot of work to do this year with community outreach, and I'm not asking you to stop doing this. What I'm asking is for all of you to think about balance. Do the hard work of delegating, coaching and share in the work and the success of your chapter together. If we all work together, we can achieve our community goals and our academic goals.
I am very proud of all of you for taking on the most challenging majors and the most rewarding careers. I look forward to meeting you all at the SHPE National Conference (if you can reschedule your interfering midterms) and hearing about all your successes.
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