G Ragusa, EL Allen, GB Menezes - ASEE Annual Conference …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov

Impacts Resulting from a Large-Scale First-Year Engineering and Computer Science Program on Students' Successful Persistence Toward Degree Completion.

Computer and Information Science and Engineering Minority-Serving Institutions Research Expansion Program AND Program Evaluation

Allen, Ragusa

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There is a critical need for more students with engineering and computer science majors to enter into, persist in, and graduate from four-year postsecondary institutions. Increasing the diversity of the workforce by inclusive practices in engineering and science is also a profound identified need. According to national statistics, the largest groups of underrepresented minority students in engineering and science attend US public higher education institutions. Most often, a large proportion of these students come to colleges and …