Manning, J. A., & Brawner, C. E., & Sayster, A., & Mobley, C., & Orr, M. K., & Brent, R. (2023, February), Introducing the C2West Framework for Analyzing Assets of Black Undergraduate Students in Engineering  Paper presented at 2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD), New Orleans , Louisiana. 10.18260/1-2--44804

\bibitem{asee_peer_44804}
  Manning, J. A., \& Brawner, C. E., \& Sayster, A., \& Mobley, C., \& Orr, M. K., \& Brent, R. (2023, February), \emph{Introducing the C2West Framework for Analyzing Assets of Black Undergraduate Students in Engineering}
  Paper presented at 2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD), New Orleans , Louisiana.
  10.18260/1-2--44804

Jessica Allison Manning, Catherine E. Brawner, Aimee Sayster, Catherine Mobley, Marisa K. Orr, and Rebecca Brent.  "Introducing the C2West Framework for Analyzing Assets of Black Undergraduate Students in Engineering".  2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD), New Orleans , Louisiana, 2023, February.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44804 Internet.  14 Mar, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_44804}
  Jessica Allison Manning, Catherine E. Brawner, Aimee Sayster, Catherine Mobley, Marisa K. Orr, and Rebecca Brent.
  "Introducing the C2West Framework for Analyzing Assets of Black Undergraduate Students in Engineering".
  \emph{2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD), New Orleans , Louisiana, 2023, February}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44804 Internet.  14 Mar, 2025

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author = "Jessica Allison Manning, Catherine E. Brawner, Aimee Sayster, Catherine Mobley, Marisa K. Orr, and Rebecca Brent"
title = "Introducing the C2West Framework for Analyzing Assets of Black Undergraduate Students in Engineering"
booktitle = "2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)"
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month = "February"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - 	Asset-based theories explain how people can apply their talents and skills to thrive in diverse environments. When applied to engineering education, these theories can highlight the unique strengths of students of color that help them succeed in college and beyond. An asset-based framework allows both students and instructors to see the potential in students in ways that were previously overlooked or unexplored.
This paper combines one asset-based framework and a powerful contextual theory to highlight the assets of Black students in engineering. First, Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) framework examines familial, linguistic, aspirational, resistant, navigational, and social capital. Second, Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory (EST) describes the relationships that surround an individual as a set of systems that influence the individual in different ways. We combine the CCW and EST frameworks, to develop the C2WEST framework. This new framework can be used explore the experiences and strengths of Black students in engineering and the contexts that best describe those strengths. The various levels of influence included in EST will be used as a tool for describing the proximity of the assets to the individual as described by CCW. We present an illustrative example to demonstrate the power of combining these two frameworks. 
We posit that synthesizing these frameworks provides researchers with unique opportunities to analyze interviews based on the type of capital and the impact the particular capital could have on the individual’s engineering journey. In addition to creating a unique way to analyze the experiences of Black engineering students, we anticipate the merged frameworks could be used to help students of Color realize the strengths they bring to the classroom. By identifying their assets, students could feel more empowered in engineering by recognizing the unique strengths they possess. We hope the tool will be used to help students realize their own strengths and for faculty and administrators to further realize how to support students.

AU  - Jessica Allison Manning
AU  - Catherine E. Brawner
AU  - Aimee Sayster
AU  - Catherine Mobley
AU  - Marisa K. Orr
AU  - Rebecca Brent
CY  - New Orleans , Louisiana
DA  - 2023/02/26
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Introducing the C2West Framework for Analyzing Assets of Black Undergraduate Students in Engineering
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