Conference Session

First-Generation Track - Technical Session IV

Collection

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

Authors

Jennifer Blue, Miami University; Brielle Johnson, Miami University; Amy Summerville, Miami University; Brian P. Kirkmeyer, Miami University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, First Generation

surveys and a FERPA releaseallowing access to their course grade and other educational information. Next, they provideddemographic information including their age, racial and ethnic identity, and gender. They wereasked to indicate the highest level of educational attainment for two parents or legal guardians;they were instructed to skip the questions for the second parent if they had only one parent, andto answer for the two parents with the highest educational attainment if they had more than twoparents. The options provided were: “Some high school”; “High School”; “Some college”;“Associate’s or other 2-year degree”; Bachelor’s degree”; “Master’s degree”; “Doctoral degree(JD, MD, PhD, etc.)”; and “Unknown/Not Applicable/ Do not wish to disclose