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SECTION V - POST-WORKSHOP COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS
Pages 18-20

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... ments presented in this section is paired with suggestions of the types of impediments noted in Section IV that A key question for the workshop attendees was why have bedeviled similar recommendations in the past. This previous recommendations for increasing diversity in en- cross-referencing is shown in Table 4.
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... And they Higher and Postsecondary Education of the University of need to validate and replicate success by investing in Michigan, reported that: the institutionalization of proven initiatives." • Susan Herbst: "What faculty hate -- rightfully so -- "Findings from a large-scale study of undergradu- is change they don't understand or…that is out of ate engineering programs reveal that acceptance of their control." diversity as a professional value is far from achieved. • Anne-Marie Nuñez: "When…experiments are coupled Engineering alumni three years on the job reported that with careful collection and analysis of data (includ working with people who are different from them in ing studying financial aid thresholds and tracking terms of gender, race/ethnicity, or cultural backgrounds students' experiences in college)
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... Research evidence challenges the widespread belief about the existence of a strong relationship between standardized admis sions test scores and secondary school performance and subsequent collegiate academic success -- and thus the belief that recruiting a diverse student population requires sacrificing educational excellence." References 1. Butler, J.E.
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