Jul 19, 2016
Hundreds of Students of Color to Convene at UT Leadership Summit
More than 200 students from school districts, community colleges and universities across Texas will participate in the third annual UT…
Jul 11, 2016
Mission Moments: Stella Smith
Dr. Stella Smith found her second home at the Longhorn Center for Academic Excellence (LCAE) long before it…
Jul 11, 2016
IE Program Highlighted in Texas Diversity Magazine
Lat month, Texas Diversity Magazine spotlighted the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium (IE) in a story about diversity in higher…
Jun 30, 2016
Underserved Students Learn Technical, Entrepreneurship Skills in New Summer Program
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)—in collaboration with the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium (IE) is piloting the first Verizon…
Jun 22, 2016
DDCE Staff Profile: Jazmine Leon-Wing
In our next installment of staff profiles, we’re shining the spotlight on our development director Jazmine Leon-Wing. She came to…
Jun 21, 2016
Project MALES Summer Academy Focuses on Middle School Students
DDCE’s Project MALES (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success) hosted its inaugural Summer Academy on June 15-17. The three-day academy was open to…
Jun 17, 2016
Leadership through IE Starts Early at East Austin College Prep
Dr. Tommy Darwin, bottom left, and Ricky Williams top right spent a day at East Austin Prep. Fifth and sixth…
Jun 08, 2016
Project MALES Launches New Summer Academy
Decades of research confirm that summer learning loss is a real phenomenon, particularly for low-income students of color. Over the…
Jun 08, 2016
IE Citizen Scholars Program Announces 2016-17 Co-Presidents
From left: Anisha Mehra and Amie Tran, both seniors majoring in human development/family sciences Two College of Natural Sciences seniors,…
May 20, 2016
IE Kuhn Scholar Shama Momin Headed to Columbia for Grad School
Kudos to IE Kuhn Scholar and Pre Grad intern Shama Momin, the first in her family to graduate from college,…