Castles, R., & Venters, C., & Goodman, C. (2022, August), Recruiting and Retaining Low-Income Engineering Students Across Four Institutions During a Pandemic: Progress and Lessons Learned from a Track 3 S-STEM Grant  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--42060

\bibitem{asee_peer_42060}
  Castles, R., \& Venters, C., \& Goodman, C. (2022, August), \emph{Recruiting and Retaining Low-Income Engineering Students Across Four Institutions During a Pandemic: Progress and Lessons Learned from a Track 3 S-STEM Grant}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--42060

Ricky Castles, Chris Venters, and Charles Goodman.  "Recruiting and Retaining Low-Income Engineering Students Across Four Institutions During a Pandemic: Progress and Lessons Learned from a Track 3 S-STEM Grant".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/42060 Internet.  02 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_42060}
  Ricky Castles, Chris Venters, and Charles Goodman.
  "Recruiting and Retaining Low-Income Engineering Students Across Four Institutions During a Pandemic: Progress and Lessons Learned from a Track 3 S-STEM Grant".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/42060 Internet.  02 Jun, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - In January 2020 East Carolina University (ECU) in partnership with Lenoir Community College
(LCC), Pitt Community College (PCC), and Wayne Community College (WCC) was awarded an
S-STEM Track 3 Grant (Grant number: 1930497). The purpose of this grant was to support lowincome students at each partner institution, to research best practices in recruiting and retaining
low-income students at both universities and community colleges, and to research how such
programs influence the transfer outcomes from two-year to four-year schools. This grant
provides scholarship support for two cohorts of students, one starting their engineering studies in
Fall 2020 and the other starting their engineering studies in Fall 2021. Each cohort was to be
comprised of 40 students including 20 students at ECU and 20 students divided among the three
partnering community colleges. In addition to supporting student scholarships, this grant
supported the establishment of new student support mechanisms and enhancement of existing
support systems on each campus. This project involved the creation of a faculty mentoring
program, designing a summer bridge program, establishing a textbook lending library, and
enhancing activities for students in a living-learning community, expansion of university tutoring
initiatives to allow access for community college students, and promoting a new peer mentoring
initiative. The program emphasizes career opportunities including promoting on-campus career
fairs, promoting internship and co-op opportunities, and bringing in guest speakers from various
industry partners. A goal of the program was to allow community college students to build
relationships with university students and faculty so they can more easily assimilate into the
student body at the university upon transfer. This paper presents the challenges presented to the
project in the first year and the pivoting that occurred due the pandemic. Data is presented
regarding recruitment of scholars in both cohorts and retention of scholars from year 1 to year 2. 
AU  - Ricky Castles
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TI  - Recruiting and Retaining Low-Income Engineering Students Across Four Institutions During a Pandemic: Progress and Lessons Learned from a Track 3 S-STEM Grant
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