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

retainstudents across wide cross section of the population. While the diverse population of fiveboroughs of New York City provides a large pool of potential candidates, QCC attracts studentsfrom all five boroughs with a majority of student originating from Queens County. The collegealso attracts students from Nassau and Suffolk counties as well. This paper will present ourefforts to maintain and improve the diversity of our student body. The efforts are focused on ourhigh school recruitment effort, the Summer Robotics program, the Women in TechnologySummer Workshop, and the changes we initiated in our curriculum in an effort to maintain andhave our student achieve a successful academic outcome. Research shows that a first-generationcollege student needs