intervention that we suggest engineering institutions test is to start curating engineers’stories in undergraduate education. What we suggest here is to have undergraduate studentscurate their own stories as they progress through engineering education and then archive thesestories so that the next generation can view the variety of stories that have been pursued and,eventually, practiced as professional engineers.Figure 2: A sample curated story of an undergraduate engineer progressing from High Schoolthrough to a company.Figure 2 shows a digital version of an imaginary student’s progress from high school through anundergraduate degree to a career. We imagine that the curation of the story can be accomplishedwith digital tools including QR codes that
need a way toarticulate both tacit and explicit knowledge. This paper presents a thought model about how thework of the Director of a successful program is organized.Composing a model of how diversity programs at colleges and universities should and/or dowork, as viewed from outside is likely to result in lists of events, which are clearly a part ofexplicit knowledge. A program has mentoring. It has bridge programs. It may include a varietyof career programs or speaker programs. What is typically invisible from outside is that theseevents and programs are outward manifestations of planning and practices that come from bothresearch and experience and a combination of tacit and explicit knowledge.What may not be evident from the external view is
[8]Most extant research has sought to explain these persistent patterns by focusing on howindividual-level factors shape degree patterns [9], [10], [11], [12]. Yet, theoretical andempirical research on organizations also tells us that institutional dynamics matter:Institutional parameters limit access to specific STEM majors, as only a subset of institutionsoffers CS&E degrees [13], [14]. Moreover, institutions generally reify and reproduce group-level gender and racial inequalities in educational and career trajectories [8], [15], [16], [17],[18], [19]. Indeed, racialized and gendered dynamics shape the types of postsecondaryinstitutions students attend: Women are concentrated in smaller, less selective 4-year and 2-year institutions
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