Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Ibironke O. Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Topics

Race/Ethnicity

Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) showed facultyof color are less likely to remain in their employment long term. The curriculum for training RIC,included several retention initiatives. Onboarding is important in making newly hired faculty membersfeel welcome and at home, and integrated into the community. New faculty have varying degrees ofexperience with local multicultural issues (Wunsch and Chattergy, 1991). This is why New FacultyOrientation (NFO) has gained grounds at VCU. At the beginning of the school year, the different unitsin the division of faculty affairs meet with new faculty to familiarize them with local campus policies,regulations, processes and procedures of the university. Other units such as Technology

Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session III

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Paula Lynn Rees, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Tagged Topics

Race/Ethnicity

other side of campus. ! Students and faculty would benefit from training and tactics (e.g., for identifying and managing implicit bias and power imbalances, building greater cultural awareness and support for group work, etc.). ! Potentially perceived lack of engagement by students around DEI issues is not due to apathy; they feel stressed and overworked, and need time and space to “care”.While participants were drawn from across demographic groups, they self-selected to participate,making it unclear from the dialog data if climate concerns are uniform across groups. A subsequentstudent-led pilot study, consisting of semi-structured in-person interviews, did find discrepancies instudent experience

Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session VII

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Monica L. Ridgeway, Vanderbilt University ; Ebony Omotola McGee, Vanderbilt University; Dara Elizabeth Naphan-Kingery, Vanderbilt University; Amanda J. Brockman, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Topics

Race/Ethnicity

participants withinthis study. Black students have did not have the freedom to brainstorm with their peers. Mykisha: … everything about that group was horrible. I mean, I shouldn’t say all of them. But [Asian Students] were kind of condescending a bit. Um, if I an had one issue with one of them I would have them like come and confront me in the lab with other people around like, by my desk, and say things like...I don’t even...oh...it’s like I put a lot of that stuff out of my mind. But just things that would make me seem like I wasn’t capable of doing things properly… And I was learning a lot of new techniques, but they...they treated me like I didn’t know what I was doing.Like many Black doctoral students

Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session IV

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Lesley M. Berhan, University of Toledo; Revathy Kumar; Aaron Lee Adams, Alabama A&M University; Marjory A. Goodloe; Jimmie Karl Jones, University of Toledo; Willie Lewis McKether, The University of Toledo

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Race/Ethnicity

) and engineering programs (EN), the HBCU institution offered onlyengineering majors and did not include engineering technology. Therefore sample selection atthe PWI included a further level of stratification by program.Interview Protocol and Interview ProcessThe focus group protocol was constructed by utilizing protocols used in our previous research onprejudice and discrimination among college, middle, and high school minority students thatincluded African American, Latino, and Arab American students. Open-ended questionsprovided interviewees ample opportunities for frank discussion about issues and concerns crucialto their lives in and outside school [29]. The protocol included questions regarding perceptionsof the campus and engineering