Transcript 4- The 3 R's - Recruitment, Retention Returning.ppt

Part 4
Investigation of policies and
policy- related issues, and
experimental intervention and
implementation of relevant
exploratory research
Why 3R’s are important & what we
should do?
• Recruitment
• Retention
• Reentry and Career Change
Recruitment in Engineering
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Address the image problems
Focus on engineering
Invest time and funds in existing programs
Invest leadership, time and funds to create
targeted new programs
Retention in Engineering
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Women have lower persistence rates Self confidence declines even when
academic performance does not
• Factors: Influence of advisor and/or mentor
Influence of other students
Perception of academic performance
Perception of career opportunities
Financial difficulties
Retention in Engineering
• Retention :
Is time-intensive
Requires sustained
commitment
• Adopt :
Student chapter
Academic program
Retention program
Some students
Faculty member
Reentry and Career Change
• Women more likely to have absence from
work force
Child care and elder care
• Women in related disciplines more likely to
be underemployed
Mathematics, physics, chemistry
4-1
The 3Rs” Recruitment , Retention
and retiring
(project & report summary)
• Recruitment: fewer women than men train or pursue
careers in science, engineering and technology.
• Retention: a significant proportion of women leave
science, engineering and technology, either to pursue
alternative careers or to start a family;
• Returning: It is not easy to return to science, engineering
and technology disciplines after a career break.
4-2
Recruitment and retention of women
graduate students in computer science and
engineering
• (Project & report summary)
• Recruiting women to graduate in
computer science programs
• .Retaining women through graduation
4-3
Women in to Engineering
• (Project & report summary)
• Read part 4-3 which includes material
taken from the commissioned report by
Etta Wharton provides a snapshot of the
current state of women in engineering,
particularly regarding enrolment, retention,
& outreach activates that support girls and
women to pursue a career in engineering.
4-4
Engineering student Retention:
Reducing Attrition and improving
graduation Rates
of Upper classmen Engineering
Students
(An Annotated Bibliography)