Broadening the Pipeline Through the Study of Pathways and Persistence: Findings From the Second Year

• In Event: Common Ground on Diversity: Research on Inclusiveness in Professions Education

Abstract

Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Howard University and Florida International University are conducting a 3-year empirical study with two other minority serving institutions to investigate undergraduate Black and Hispanic engineering students’ decision-making processes. It investigates their persistence and identity at minority serving institutions where they are the majority. Major findings from the first year were presented at the 2013 meeting. It indicated that goal and institutional commitment predicted persistence and sex and race/ethnicity were perceived as not affecting persistence and that students identified strongly with engineering as a profession. The second year data (obtained from students in their third year of study) are presently being analyzed and will be presented at the annual meeting.

Authors

• Leonard B. Bliss, Florida International University

• Fabiana Bornmann, Florida International University

• Lorraine Fleming, Howard University

• Dawn G. Williams, Howard University

• Kalynda C. Smith, Howard University

• Inez Moore, Howard University