Stephens, M., & Oliver, T. R., & Leggett-Robinson, P. M. (2023, June), Increasing the Persistence of Black Women in STEM (WiSTEM) by Implementing and Sustaining a Successful Cohort Model for First-Year Undergraduate Women at an HBCU  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43950

\bibitem{asee_peer_43950}
  Stephens, M., \& Oliver, T. R., \& Leggett-Robinson, P. M. (2023, June), \emph{Increasing the Persistence of Black Women in STEM (WiSTEM) by Implementing and Sustaining a Successful Cohort Model for First-Year Undergraduate Women at an HBCU}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--43950

Monica Stephens, Tiffany Renee Oliver, and Pamela M Leggett-Robinson.  "Increasing the Persistence of Black Women in STEM (WiSTEM) by Implementing and Sustaining a Successful Cohort Model for First-Year Undergraduate Women at an HBCU".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/43950 Internet.  27 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_43950}
  Monica Stephens, Tiffany Renee Oliver, and Pamela M Leggett-Robinson.
  "Increasing the Persistence of Black Women in STEM (WiSTEM) by Implementing and Sustaining a Successful Cohort Model for First-Year Undergraduate Women at an HBCU".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/43950 Internet.  27 Apr, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Despite initiatives, policies, and procedures to increase the representation of Black women in STEM, they still remain largely underrepresented, especially in mathematics, computer science, and engineering. This study describes the long-term success of the Women in STEM (WiSTEM) Program, a pre-freshman summer bridge and academic-year experience for incoming first-year students majoring in STEM disciplines. The program has had twelve cohorts over the last fifteen years and has served over 235 women. Ninety percent of WiSTEM participants graduate from college and more than seventy percent obtain their degree in a STEM discipline. This represents a marked increase from the national and College STEM retention rates of 43 and 45 percent, respectively. Many of these students have received or are pursuing advanced degrees in STEM.
Our motivation for creating WiSTEM is the observation that Black women are underrepresented in STEM for a variety of reasons that include (1) anxiety pertaining to mathematics and computing (2) a lack of exposure to STEM disciplines and tangential careers (3) a lack of exposure to culturally responsive pedagogy, and (4) a lack of communities of support.

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