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Student Retention Toolkit
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781974031368
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 6 2017
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.37 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Expanding the nation's engineering talent pool is critical to U.S. economic competitiveness, and diversity is vital to engineering innovation. But many U.S. institutions of higher education are struggling in these efforts. Only 35,421 of the 112,721 engineering bachelor's degree recipients in this country in the 2015-16 academic year were African American/Black, Latino, Native American or female. And the percentage of those students among U.S. engineering graduates has been flat or declining for more than a decade.
The NSBE Student Retention Toolkit provides research-based strategy briefs, each nine pages or fewer, that present proven strategies for improving student retention and student success in engineering degree programs.
The briefs include clear action steps for the readers as well as guidance in avoiding pitfalls. Each strategy is grounded in examples of campus programs that have raised success rates for underrepresented minorities, women and first-generation college-goers.
The Student Retention Toolkit is part of NSBE's broader effort to dramatically increase the number of underrepresented minority and women engineers in the U.S. over the next eight years, both separately and in collaboration with the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) in the 50K Coalition.
The NSBE Student Retention Toolkit Briefs
Institution and Department Topics
Campus Climate: How to measure and shape students' perceptions of the college environment in general and engineering programs in particular
Faculty Development: The critical role of active learning by faculty in improving student outcomes
Institutional Leadership: Strategies to engage senior leaders of the college or university in supporting and promoting engineering diversity efforts
Core Strategy Topics
Early Alert Systems: Effective methods of reaching out to struggling students in time to turn around their performance
Facilitated Study Groups: How to implement these periodic, collaborative learning sessions to improve students' grades and self-confidence
Living-Learning Communities: Bonding college students to the campus, their peers and their engineering programs in residential academic settings
Scholar Cohort Programs: Setting up talented teams of students who pursue their engineering degrees and graduate together
Summer Bridge Programs: Designing and implementing these gateway programs for incoming freshmen that are proven to increase their retention in engineering
Concept Topics
Identity: Moving underrepresented minority and women students beyond cultural, racial or gender differences from the majority to help them see themselves as engineers
Self-Efficacy: How to improve students' assessment of their capability in engineering
Diversity increases engineering innovation and engineering success. This publication is a unique resource for leaders who want to advance their educational institutions by acting on that knowledge.- NSBE 2016-18 National Chair Matthew C. Nelson
The Goals To increase the annual number of engineering bachelor's degree recipients in the U.S. by 2025
NSBE 10,000 African-American Graduates
50K Coalition 50,000 African-American, Latino, Native American and Women Graduates
NSBE's Mission To increase the number of culturally responsible Black Engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community
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