Conference Session

Two-Year College Division (TYCD) Technical Session 1: Transfer Pathways

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi G. Loshbaugh, University of Colorado Boulder; Chris Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder; Nick A. Stites, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

. With aDWD, a student could earn 60 general education credits in a community college, transfer to auniversity, earn 60 upper-division credits, and graduate with a bachelor’s degree—nominally infour years’ time. At this writing, nearly 40 statewide DWDs have been adopted. All publicinstitutions participate in statewide articulation agreements, and some private institutions alsoarticulate credits from community colleges. However, the onus for navigating policyramifications rests on students, who must know the policy and how to advocate for themselves.Unfortunately, what would appear to be straightforward on paper can be opaque to students [74].The culture of higher education with gaps between systems [75] can challenge successfultransfer [9

Conference Session

Persistence, Outcomes and Barriers for Women in Engineering

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lily Skau, Austin Peay State University; Emmabeth Parrish Vaughn, Austin Peay State University; Bobette Bouton; Steven Blake Warth, Austin Peay State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

education a more socially just and safe space for all and uses writing, speaking, and research to address each of these important aspects of her academic career.Steven Blake Warth, Austin Peay State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Retrospective Insights in Choosing a Career in Engineering Abstract Women have historically been underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields [1]. The gender gap in participation in engineering remains especially large, and the cause of this gap is the question of many researchers [2],[3],[4]. Research teams have found that perceptions of the