Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Student Organizations Technical Session 14

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Jennifer Sheridan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Manuela Romero, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mary E. Fitzpatrick, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine Fabian Bell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Eve Fine, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Carmen Juniper Neimeko; Katherine Fallon, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Student Organizations

99% of the students find the workshop very or somewhat valuable, with the section on“recruitment and messaging” being the most highly rated. Over 93% of the participants reported beingsomewhat or very motivated to engage in specific bias-reducing activities in their organization. Futureanalyses will include tracking demographic data from student organization membership and leadershiplists, as well as climate survey results. I. IntroductionIt is clear that the field of Engineering not only lacks the diversity of the U.S. workforce, but also is lessdiverse than other fields in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine)fields [1], [2]. At the undergraduate level