Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session II

Collection

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

Authors

Kelly Mack, Association of American Colleges and Universities; Kate Winter, Kate Winter Evaluation, LLC

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Undergraduate Education

. Winter has worked with major NSF initiatives (e.g., ADVANCE, HBCU-UP, S STEM) since 2003. KWE is the external evaluator for the AAC&U Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) initiative, Metacommunity for Broadening Par- ticipation; AAC&U PKAL’s Undergraduate STEM Education Reform (USER) project; and two five-year long consortia-based projects funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education (a FITW and an HSI-STEM). KWE’s areas of evaluation expertise include diversity in STEM, college student access and retention, professional development for faculty, and institutional cultural change. Dr. Winter is a member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the European Evaluation So- ciety (EES), adheres to AEA professional and

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session III

Collection

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

Authors

Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado, Boulder; Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Ann Delaney, Boise State University; Sonya Cunningham, University of Washington; Pamela Cosman, University of California, San Diego; Tanya D. Ennis, University of Colorado, Boulder; Katherine Christine Tetrick, Washington State University; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Undergraduate Education

STateAcademic Redshirts (WA STARS) Program at University of Washington (UW) and WashingtonState University (WSU) suggests that the “redshirt in engineering” model is a successful tool forimproving outcomes for students who would be otherwise excluded from engineering. Theexpansion of the model to three additional schools -- University of California, San Diego(UCSD), Boise State University (BSU), and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) --will allow for an examination of its malleability and potential for further dissemination. Lessons1 Note: much of the information in the introduction was drawn from the NSF S-STEM proposal to fund theRedshirt in Engineering Consortium.learned from existing redshirt programs and the first two years of the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session VII

Collection

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

Authors

Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Janice Fenn, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Undergraduate Education

support diverse studentsappropriately. Faculty should be engaged in supporting these diverse students beyond theirteaching role, including academic advising, coaching and mentoring, social status checks, andmore. Furthermore, faculty involved in these roles should be supported and rewarded, as theywould be for other important campus initiatives. Nonetheless, there are some challenges with thisapproach since research has shown that women and minority faculty typically already have aheavier service load and more diversity responsibilities than do their peers. Berry & Walter [2] describe an NSF S-STEM a mentoring and professional skills programdeveloped to increase the recruitment, retention and development of URM in STEM fields