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Too Black to be a Woman and Too Much Woman to be a Man: Best Practices from Black Women Persisting through Doctoral Engineering and Computing Programs

Conference Session
Track : Graduate - Technical Session 8
Collection
2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity
Authors
Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Irvine; Stacie LeSure, Engineers for Equity
Tagged Topics
Diversity, Graduate Education
CASE STUDIES FOR Too Black to be Woman and Too Much Woman to be a Man: Best Practices from Black Women Persisting through Doctoral Engineering and Computing Programs Case Study #1: Black EyesHow does your race impact your experience in your doctoral program?My race impacting my experience in this department is huge because not only am Ithe only Black PhD candidate in Computer Science in the history of this school,there’s only been five other black students who have graduated from thisdepartment. Knowing this makes me think more about the school and why it beenso difficult for the staff here to recruit other students like me. I know they exist, soit's strange for me to sit here and know that I'm the
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Intersectional Perspectives: Interpersonal Contributors to Moments of Doubt for Graduate Women of Color in STEM

Conference Session
Track: Graduate - Technical Session 12
Collection
2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity
Authors
Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel, Indiana University ; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University; Amanda James Reed
Tagged Topics
Diversity, Graduate Education
Berkeley and graduate degrees in Counseling Psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara.Dr. Jennifer M Bekki, Arizona State University Jennifer M. Bekki is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Chair for the Engineering Education Systems and Design program within The Polytechnic School within the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engi- neering at Arizona State University. Her research interests include topics related to engineering student persistence, STEM graduate students (particularly women), online learning, educational data mining, and the modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering and graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering, all from Arizona
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