Conference Session

Money and People; Resource Management for Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

engineering and computer science students who made up close to 60% of the totalenrollment in the program. Through the programming, the CIRC students were exposed totopics not normally found in the classroom such as portfolios, writing a good resume, and talksby practicing engineers on what it is “really like in industry”. The program has been determinedto be very successful and is being continued with an NSF S-STEM grant.II. Program HistoryThis first group was composed of 12 transfer students, 9 women, 5 minority students, and 2freshman minority students who were unable to attend Arizona State University withoutscholarship assistance. All of the students had at least a 3.0 GPA and all were in need offinancial assistance as determined by their FAFSA