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SECTION II - FRAMING THE ISSUE: A LONG, SLOW TREK & SECTION III - PRE-WORKSHOP PREPARATIONS
Pages 3-9

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... (Dan) Mote, Jr., President of the National Academy of Engineering, noted that, while previous attempts to achieve broad ethnic diversity in engineering education had fallen short, it is important to take the lessons from those efforts and consider ways to move forward.
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... for academic document their • Take part in summer support programs experience enrichment programs • Evaluate and document their experience • Perform public • Take part in nonsummer • Perform public service service enrichment programs • Participate in summer research opportunities • Go to • Perform public service • Go to conferences conferences • Take part in Upward • Have minority students take part in self-paced Bound, Talent Search, and instruction other organizations • Take part in summer training programs • Participate in military awareness programs • Go to conferences Educational • Provide minority students • Encourage cross-institutional/-organizational • Maintain a Institution with opportunities for cooperation to develop programs targeted at database of self-paced instruction minorities demographic • Give teachers and • Help foster individual institution efforts to support trends instructors leave time for minorities • Evaluate professional development • Develope faculty-/staff-led support activities programs that • Develop and maintain (mentoring by faculty, tutoring by students) are targeted to outreach programs • Create research opportunities for undergraduates minorities for teachers (establish • Open cultural centers partnerships between • Maintain and develop professional organizations precollege teachers and • Encourage curriculum development university science and • Encourage collaboration with government and engineering faculty)
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... Postcollege/Graduate Education Precollege College or Professional Stakeholder School Government • Fund support activities • Fund scholarships, grants, work study • Fund fellowships • Develop organized ways • Develop organized ways to fund programs and and work study to fund programs and evaluate them • Maintain a evaluate them • Maintain a database of demographic trends database of • Maintain a database of • Evaluate programs that are targeted to minorities demographic demographic trends trends • Evaluate programs that • Evaluate are targeted to minorities programs that are targeted to minorities Private • Communicate science to • Communicate science to the public • Improve Sector the public • Perform self-assessments of programs developed minorities' • Perform self-assessments for minorities careers by of programs developed creating policies for minorities among public and private employers that are sensitive to minority needs • Create jobs for minorities 6 SURMOUNTING THE BARRIERS: ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION
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... for academic • Communicate engineering and science to the support programs public • Evaluate and document their experience • Create a work environment that is inclusive • Take part in summer enrichment programs through the creation of policies that are sensi • Take part in nonsummer enrichment programs tive to minority needs • Perform public service • Create jobs for minorities • Take part in Upward Bound, Talent Search, and • Publicize positive stories of minority accom other organizations plishments • Take part in summer training programs • Participate in summer research opportunities F. Increase educational research and policy • Participate in military awareness programs development • Go to conferences • Perform self-assessments of programs devel oped for minorities B. Enhance pedagogy for current and future teachers • Maintain a database of demographic trends and faculty • Evaluate programs that are targeted to minorities • Develop and maintain teacher preparation courses To illustrate the history of these recurring recommenda • Prepare teachers with science and mathemat- tions for increasing diversity, Table 2 shows a matrix of ics training these six recommendation categories and the decades • Provide teachers with bilingual courses and reports in which they were presented. • Provide minority students with opportunities for self-paced instruction • Provide teachers and instructors with reduced course loads • Give teachers and instructors leave time for professional development • Provide summer workshops for teachers • Develop and maintain outreach programs for teachers (establish partnerships between precollege teachers and university science and engineering faculty)
From page 9...
... Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education. Recommendations A-D Washington: National Academy Press.


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