How Role Models Can Help Students to Persist in STEM

“Having role models […] who said, ‘You are someone, you are intelligent, I see you doing great things.’ let me know that I had the skills and the self-efficacy to go on to be successful and to dream big.”  In this video, Dr. Robert T. Palmer, professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Howard University, reflects on the importance of role models in STEM education, particularly for racially diverse students.