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Work in Progress: Participants of the Cultivate ACCESS Program

Conference Session
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Rachel Ibach, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jennifer Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Deepak R. Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Sydney E. Everhart, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Leah Sandall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
ofemployability skills, and strengthening of their own self-efficacy and confidence to pursue acareer in agSTEM.Youth are guided through career exploration, college majors, and the development ofemployability skills, the new industry term for soft skills by their mentor and ambassador inregular mentoring sessions. Youth are able to connect with their mentor and ambassador throughemail, phone calls, or video calls to accommodate schedules and participate wherever they arelocated. During these mentoring sessions mentors and ambassadors are provided with discussionprompts, activities, and other resources relevant to the assigned topic for that cycle. The topics ofthese cycles are tied to the desired objectives and educational goals to ensure
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A Curriculum in Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, and Lessons Learned

Conference Session
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Lisa Deane Morano, University of Houston, Downtown; Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
presentation and other important professional soft skills. Students were also asked torespond to open questions about the program. Key highlights from the annual assessments andcomments by the external program evaluator are summarized in the following paragraphs. For simplicitywe have focused on the data from the last cohort of the program, but it is representative of previous years.a. DiversityUHD is a Minority Serving Institution and a Hispanic Serving Institution which serves a large segment ofthe city’s underrepresented population. As the program at this university would automatically have aracially diverse group of students we focused on making sure there was also a diversity of students basedon additional parameters of socioeconomics and
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