Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francesca Bartram; Natalie Wint; David Maxwell Rea

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division

courses to 281 graduate students.At an institutional level, equality, diversity, and inclusion are part of the main strategicdocument of the university and are linked with a need to improve student experience, widenparticipation and to create an environment of research excellence in which “all of theUniversity community (area able to) fulfil their potential”. The Strategic Equality Plan is setin the context of complying with the Equality Act (2010), and describes the protectedcharacteristics as covered by the General Duty. The document lists nine ‘Equality objectives’,along with their success measures. Two are aimed at students, the first referring to areduction in the ‘BAME’ degree awarding differential, and second to embed inclusivity