Conference Session

Broadening Perspectives in Construction Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Mosier, Oklahoma State University; Sanjeev Adhikari, Kennesaw State University; Sandeep Langar, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Tulio Sulbaran, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

budgets for public education, specifically K12 [3] (Figure 1).There are approximately 800 separate institutions on the NASA Minority Serving Institution(MSI) list [4], which make up about 10% of post-secondary institutions and 26% of students [5].MSIs have been identified through a series of Executive Actions by which the U.S. Departmentof Commerce, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of the Interiorallocate specific funding to MSI institutions. However, while federal funding is available, about59.3% of MSIs are funded [6]. It is critical to determine if students graduating from these MSIsare employed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields, especially asworkforce shortages continue [7]. Further, students