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Developing Communities of Practice to Serve Hispanic Students: Supporting Identity, Community, and Professional Networks

Conference Session
Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Minorities in Engineering
of peer support to achieve in higher education [2]. Co-curricular and informal learning opportunities can provide students access to expert thinking intheir disciplines, and can improve retention in the sciences [3]. S-STEM scholarship programswere designed to provide curricular, co-curricular, and financial support to students withfinancial need who are underrepresented in STEM fields. Results from S-STEM programindicate scholars experience greater retention and higher achievement than their peers, [4,5,6] yetlittle is known about how S-STEM scholarship programs shape students’ professional identitiesin their fields.The Cybersecurity National Science Foundation S-STEM scholarship project is a joint effortbetween two- year and four-year
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KickStarter: Providing Hispanic Serving Community Colleges with Technical Assistance to Improve their Federal Funding Competitiveness (Experience)

Conference Session
Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Cynthia Kay Pickering, Science Foundation Arizona; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, Science Foundation Arizona; Anita Grierson, Science Foundation Arizona; Anna Tanguma, Science Foundation Arizona
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Minorities in Engineering
external motivation to keep their teams moving forward and makeprogress towards their STEM goals through the following forums and community activities: • Attend Cohort Monthly Meetings to share best practices and hear from guest speakers. • Participate in KickStarter’s NSF program-specific group meetings and related KickStarter communications including access to existing resources such as NSF proposal preparation workbooks (e.g., join the S-STEM working group to share ideas and discuss aspects of the S-STEM proposal). • Get the latest updates on NSF proposals and webinars with access to the STEM Network and KickStarter group. • Support and training provided for new and additional faculty and proposal teams
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Community: Voices from a Small Cohort

Conference Session
Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Monica Lauren Singer, AmeriCorps VISTA; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Emily E. Liptow, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Katherine C. Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Minorities in Engineering
Education Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Her degrees in Materials Science and Engineering are from Michigan State University and MIT. Her research interests include pre-college engineering education and equity in education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Community: Voices from a Small CohortAbstractPEEPS (Program for Engineering Excellence for Partner Schools) NSF S-STEM scholarship wasdesigned to support students from low socioeconomic, first generation and/or underrepresentedgroups in obtaining an undergraduate engineering degree at California Polytechnic StateUniversity in San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). Students receive up to $10,000/year to aid in
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