Among the steps that Secretary Clinton and the White House announced in support of attracting and retaining women to STEM careers are improving data collection and dissemination on women in science and technology, bolstering the available pool of skilled STEM mentors, encouraging research-based STEM teaching, and helping to connect women to online and mobile STEM skills training.

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It remains to be seen whether, having achieved the status they coveted, these new universities will now feel self-confident enough to offer their students a distinctive teaching-based education, or whether they will aspire to become fully fledged research universities like their older rivals.

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