Pan-Organizational Summit on the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce Meeting Summary (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Although enrollments soared through the mid-199Os, a persistent and significant achievement gap continues to grow. Only two of five minority students nationally who enroll in engineering graduate with a baccalaureate degree in engineering, compared to two of three nonminority students.
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Barriers to minority student retention continue to be: the cost of education, isolating campus climates, a lack of peer and faculty engagement, and inadequate math and science preparation.3 Increasing the minority retention rate to that of nonminorities would raise aggregate baccalaureate production of underrepresented 2Symonds, W.C. "America's Future College Crunch The Human Factor," Business Week, August 20-27, 2001.
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Increased access through academic preparation and financial aid must augment current enrollments rates. To enhance selection for college admission students with unconventional academic profiles, we provide financial assistance as well as intellectual support (e.g., mentoring, peer tutoring, internship experiences)
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A diverse faculty is a sure sign to an increasingly diverse student body that a woman or person of color can indeed excel and achieve. Such role models are often disparaged, but they can make a difference between persistence in and departure from a science or engineering course of study.7 Assessing Institutional Production The concentration of federal R&D funding, with 100 institutions accounting for 90 percent of federal R&D obligations and 30 institutions receiving the lion's share of that, is familiar to us all.
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Student readiness for college may be revealed by college entrance exams and admission decisions, but an academic profile that includes rigorous mathematics and science courses bestows a true competitive advantage.~° While few high school students take four years of math and science, nonminority students are twice as likely as their minority peers to have taken the requisite courses. Some of this is due to choice (students opt out of challenging coursework)
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Given the variability in tuition, fees, and books, we want to stretch scarce resources and at the same time increase the number of students that can be supported under the block award. Recruitment refers to institutional leadership committed to recruiting and admitting promising students from high schools in underserved communities and two-year colleges; admissions to published policies and procedures that goes beyond SAT/ACT scores and high school GPA in evaluating student potential to succeed in engineering; pre-matriculation enrichment to summer programs designed to enrich intellectual exchange and socialize students for participation in the life of the university and the engineering community)
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It is our collective responsibility to nurture, develop, and guide it not only by directly supporting the financial and intellectual needs of students, but also by activating institutional allies who can bring full campus resources to bear on the development of human resources for science, engineering, and the national workforce. i4Hersh, R.H., and R
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