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Track 3: Technical Session 6: Uncovering the less-heard histories and barriers of Asian and Asian American Students

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Siqing Wei, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Li Tan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

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released a report, titled, “The Rise ofAsian Americans” (Pew Research Center, 2012) based on the 2010 U.S. census (U.S.Census Bureau, 2012). The title referred, in part, to the changing demographic andsocioeconomic trends. In 1960, Asian Americans comprised less than one percent ofthe U.S. population, but account for 5.6% today—becoming the fastest growing groupin the country. Immigration is driving much of this demographic change (Alba & Nee,2003; Lee & Bean, 2010). China and India have now surpassed Mexico as the leadingsources of new immigrants to the United States. Demographers project that, by 2065,immigrants from Asia will comprise 38% of all immigrants to the country. As a result,Asian Americans will nearly triple in size, and

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Track 5: Technical Session 1: Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Members' Personal and Professional Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Yvette E. Pearson P.E., University of Texas at Dallas; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Lisa J. Borello, University of Texas at Dallas; Torrie Cropps; Jue Wu, Univertify of Florida; Samara Rose Boyle

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(Slaton 2010). Further,while our larger project is focused on equity in STEM faculty hiring for racially and ethnicallyminoritized individuals, we were interested in collecting and analyzing data (for future studies)that covered several additional dimensions of diversity (e.g., disability, socioeconomic status,gender identity, and sexual orientation). Neither ATDS nor ACES is as comprehensive as thePohan and Aguilar scales with respect to the dimensions of diversity addressed.Data collected from attitude scales is susceptible to participants’ tendency to provide responsesthat are in line with the prevailing beliefs within a given social arena, a phenomenonpsychologists call social desirability bias (Neherdorf 1985). We added items from an

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Track 6: Technical Session 4: WIP: investigate recruitment strategies used by engineering bridge and success programs to recruit underserved students

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Xinyu Zhang, Purdue University; Lynette Michaluk, West Virginia University; N’Diya Harris, Wright State University; Ansley Lynn Shamblin, West Virginia University

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education such as broadening participation in engineering, teaching technology innovations, and engineering entrepreneurship, as well as EEE discipline-based topics such as energy-water-environment nexus and sustainable biomanufacturing. Previously, Dr. Zhang was a Teaching Assistant Professor of Engineering at West Virginia University and has successfully led and expanded their summer bridge program for incoming first-year engineering students called Academy of Engineering Success (AcES).Lynette Michaluk, West Virginia University PI, is a social sciences researcher at the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in STEM Education. Her research interests include broadening access to and participation in STEM. She