Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session VI

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Catherine Cohan, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

Race/Ethnicity

graduation rates of majoritystudents in Engineering? To demonstrate the efficacy of a summer bridge program it isimportant to compare the outcome of interest (GPA, math course grades, retention atthe end of the first year, retention in a particular major, academic self-efficacy, sense ofbelonging) against some benchmark. The benchmark might be the change in scoresfrom a pre-test to a post-test. For benchmarks such as GPA, retention in a major, orgraduation rates in a particular major, the most rigorous way to evaluate the efficacy ofan intervention is to have random assignment of participants to the experimental groupor to a control group. This research design is difficult to achieve because sample sizesare often small or there is no appropriate

Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Katherine C. Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jaclyn Duerr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Emily E. Liptow, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Monica Lauren Singer; Helene Finger P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Race/Ethnicity

, andInclusivity in STEM Education at Cal Poly,” PLC sought to: 1.   identify explanations for patterns of underrepresentation that exist within the research and best practices literature; 2.   assess how Cal Poly’s student recruitment (admission and yield), retention, and graduation demographics compare to those at other institutions and the nation (with a focus on discipline-by-discipline comparisons); 3.   employ the research and best practices literature as a lens to a) initiate analysis of Cal Poly at the course, major, department, college, and university levels and b) identify research questions and areas of uncertainty; 4.   build and strengthen new and existing faculty

Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session I

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Ruth E. Davis, Santa Clara University; Sarah Kate Wilson, Santa Clara University; Kimberley Gonzalez; Jennifer Yarp, Santa Clara University; Muna Zaki Sinada, Santa Clara University; Naeem Khari Turner-Bandele, Santa Clara University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Race/Ethnicity

of theeffort to another office on campus (the Career Center).The students report was both eye-opening and impressive. In our response to the students, weresponded to their points in the following way.1. Create a Center for Diversity and InclusionWe are in the midst of designing a new Campus for Discovery and Innovation, a center for allSTEM disciplines. We have a working group on STEM diversity and student engagement, andthey are charged with identifying appropriate space in the center devoted to diversity andinclusion. This would be the future home of the Center for Engineering Diversity. The new deanis not going to wait for the new building to get started on this effort. He has committed togetting university approval to create a new