TY - CONF
T1 - Redshirt in engineering
T2 - 2018 Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference, CoNECD 2018
AU - Myers, Beth A.
AU - Knaphus-Soran, Emily
AU - Llewellyn, Donna C.
AU - Delaney, Ann
AU - Cunningham, Sonya
AU - Cosman, Pamela
AU - Ennis, Tanya D.
AU - Pitts, Kevin
N1 - Funding Information:
The Washington STate Academic RedShirt (STARS) Program began in 2013 as a collaborative effort between UW and WSU, funded by NSF’s STEM Talent Expansion Program (STEP). The program, modeled after the Goldshirt Program at CU-B, was created as an effort to ensure that students from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds are not excluded from the opportunities afforded by a state-level initiative to increase the number of Engineering degrees. The state of Washington currently ranks number one nationally in the concentration of STEM-related jobs, but students in Washington, particularly students of color and low income students, are not graduating with the skills they will need to fill these jobs (Washington State STEM Education Alliance 2017). Only 40% of high school graduates in Washington meet STEM competency standards, and only 9% of children born in Washington will end up working in a STEM-related job in the state (STEM Education Report Card 2016). In an attempt to reduce this job-skills gap, the state has allocated funds to increase the number of Engineering B.S. degrees at the UW and WSU.
Publisher Copyright:
© CoNECD 2018.
PY - 2018/4/29
Y1 - 2018/4/29
N2 - The NSF-funded Redshirt in Engineering Consortium was formed in 2016 with the goal of enhancing the ability of academically talented but underprepared students coming from low-income backgrounds to successfully graduate with engineering degrees. The Consortium takes its name from the practice of redshirting in college athletics, with the idea of providing an extra year and support to help promising engineering students complete a bachelor's degree. The Consortium builds on the success of three existing “academic redshirt” programs and expands the model to three new schools. The Existing Redshirt Institutions (ERIs) help mentor and train the new Student Success Partners (SSP), and SSPs contribute their unique expertise to help ERIs improve existing redshirt programs. This Work in Progress paper describes the history of the Redshirt in Engineering Consortium; the Redshirt model as a framework for addressing issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering; and initial lessons learned from the implementation of the model across unique institutional contexts.
AB - The NSF-funded Redshirt in Engineering Consortium was formed in 2016 with the goal of enhancing the ability of academically talented but underprepared students coming from low-income backgrounds to successfully graduate with engineering degrees. The Consortium takes its name from the practice of redshirting in college athletics, with the idea of providing an extra year and support to help promising engineering students complete a bachelor's degree. The Consortium builds on the success of three existing “academic redshirt” programs and expands the model to three new schools. The Existing Redshirt Institutions (ERIs) help mentor and train the new Student Success Partners (SSP), and SSPs contribute their unique expertise to help ERIs improve existing redshirt programs. This Work in Progress paper describes the history of the Redshirt in Engineering Consortium; the Redshirt model as a framework for addressing issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering; and initial lessons learned from the implementation of the model across unique institutional contexts.
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M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85078726829
Y2 - 29 April 2019 through 2 May 2019
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