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Campus Climate for Engineering Graduate Students: Examining Differences Between Domestic Minority, Domestic Majority, and International Students

Conference Session
Graduate Education Track - Technical Session V
Collection
2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference
Authors
Thomas M. Bluestein, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Mayra S. Artiles , Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education
Tagged Topics
Diversity, Graduate Education
background helps me feel like I belong here/fit in my with program; and as agraduate student, I feel like a fraud. Methods This study sought to understand whether there are differences in international anddomestic majority and minority student perceptions about campus climate focusing on aspects offaculty and peer interactions. As such, the following research question guided this study: (1)CLIMATE AND ENGINEERING GRADUATE STUDENTS 8Are there differences in perceptions of campus climate between international, domestic minority,and domestic majority students? To answer this research question in our study, we used anAnalysis of the
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The Women in Engineering Graduate Student Steering Committee at the University of Delaware

Conference Session
Graduate Education Track - Technical Session V
Collection
2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference
Authors
Heather Doty, University of Delaware; L. Pamela Cook, University of Delaware
Tagged Topics
Diversity, Graduate Education
satisfaction.1 The workshop for international students was so well attended each year that OISS started offering it regularlythroughout the academic year. It is therefore no longer on WIE’s annual calendar.Networking activities provide students the opportunity to meet and learn from role models.These events tend to center on hearing people’s stories. Our signature networking activity is anannual career panel, which brings engineers from across the country to campus to talk to studentsabout their jobs and career paths. Panelists provide brief introductions, but most of the session isreserved for audience questions. The discussions are always lively and appreciated by thestudents.Another example of a networking event is our “Meet Your Faculty” lunches
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