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APPENDIX E: POST-WORKSHOP EVALUATION REPORT
Pages 42-46

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... Strongly Strongly Agree Neutral Disagree Agree Disagree The workshop helped me to identify root causes of impediments to enhancing ethnic diversity in 43.3% 33.3% 16.7% 3.3% 3.3% engineering education and to understand their (13)
From page 43...
... Others said they became aware of best practices for enhancing diversity in engineering education. The very few people who reported less favorably on tangible outcomes noted that it's hard to achieve major outcomes and impact from a single workshop, and that, although people may know what to do, they may not be able to implement it because of lack of resources, institutional resistance, or other factors.
From page 44...
... Furthermore, separate workshops on recruiting minorities into STEM many agreed that the workshop attendees were very moti- fields, on the success of minorities in STEM fields, on math vated and diverse group of engineering professionals that, to- preparation of minorities, etc. gether with great speakers, articulated issues around diversity in engineering education particularly well.
From page 45...
... Sometimes, the breakout session discussions were too long, less focused on the workshop's biggest question, and poorly led or facilitated, which made it harder to synthesize and derive meaning, lessons, or action plans. Furthermore, some thought that the breakout sessions on local practices focused too much on anecdotes and storytelling at the expense of hard evidence and tangible impact.
From page 46...
... that at the workshop there were some implicit assumptions about the challenge to inclusion being at the feed side of Additional topics suggested for future workshops included the STEM pipeline, which takes focus away from academic a focus on faculty and student culture, conceptions of ininstitutions themselves. Colleges and universities should telligence, teaching approaches, and alternative models of consider why they are not doing better in retaining mi- funding that look beyond state and federal funds.


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