Who We Are

This project (NSF DUE #0501971) is examining the ways in which community and technical colleges awarded grants by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program recruit women and girls into their educational programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM).

Outcome

When planning recruitment strategies, a major challenge for STEM education programs is the lack of a broadly available, easily accessible, set of proven practices that is substantiated by a well-researched model of how girls and women make career decisions. The intended outcome of the project is a comprehensive package of proven practices that others can use in their program design to improve STEM recruiting strategies for women and girls.

Findings Report Coming 2010

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Access information and results of a 2008 survey on recruitment.

Everybody always says, ‘You’ve got to go to college. You’ve got to have a four year degree.’ Four-year degree! Four-year degree! Four year degree! You make more money even if you just have one or two semesters here [in a technical college] than you would in four years [with a four-year degree].
Women Welders Focus Group
Florence-Darlington Technical College

This grant is sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technology Education Program under Award No. 0501971