Collection

2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

Authors

Marvin Gayle, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York; Dugwon Seo, Queensborough Community College; Danny Mangra, Queensborough Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

diverseborough of Queens County. Using the fall 2018 semester fulltime enrollment data [1], ourstudent body consists of 50.5 % female and 49.5% male. The racial make up the student body iscomprised of students from 127 nationalities and over 78 different languages. The ethnicity ofthe college population comprises 26% of African American, 1 % of Native American Indian,2019 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Fall Conference30% of Asian or Pacific Islander, 15 % of Caucasian and 29 % of Hispanic / Latino [1].However, the retention gap between non-underrepresented students [Asian or Pacific Islanderand Caucasian] and underrepresented students [African American and Hispanic/Latino] has 7-10% difference. The ET department makes a determined effort to effectively recruit and