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Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
April 22, 2009
Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining STEM Majors and Increasing Under-Represented Students in the STEM pipeline
Facilitator: Adrienne Hamcke Wicker
Pipelining problems as students are not from homes of scientist
Difficulty understanding the language of a university setting
Educating parents that nobody goes to graduate school on their own dime
Clarifying what office hours are
Know how to work in the system
More women take physics in high school.
Need to explain what a PhD is clearly
Help students educate their parents
Cant assume that students know what the path might be
Help them develop a toolkit
Summer bridge programs are like academic boot camp. One school teaches the value of working together by having a policy that the lowest grade received will be the grade for all in the class. This teaches the students to work for everyones success.
It is important to meet the students where they are
The path to the PhD is not a clear one
Need to find ways of selling STEM as something other than being in a lab all by yourself
There are negative stereotypes of being a physicist or engineer
Bring in professionals who have different kids of jobs to showcase what you can do with STEM
Shift pedagogical thinking of it has to be hard too bad or toughening people up
Female more than males express fears about their performance
What kind of dialogue is happening with middle school and elementary school? You dont wake up and say Im going to be a mathematician
It is easy to associate recruitment and outreach with High school
Need to reach out both ways: elementary and middle to university and vice versa
High school on campus at Coppin is hands on at the campus
Specific courses at the high school e.g., Rosemount high school and Coppin
Outreach program called Gear Up Salisbury with Somerset city started at the 6th grade
Must get parents involved
Sustaining this is what is really hard as you are constantly writing grants
What can students do to get their peers to get the help they need
Encourage informal peer to peer tutoring
Create scenarios where students must work together to succeed
Move pedagogy to have more group work and foster teamwork
Saturday/weekend programs for elementary students and their parents
How do you fund summer bridge programs? Through corporate sponsorship, fee based. Money is a huge issue. Or institution eats tuition cost
Need to pique interest of MS/HS students
New TV Show, Numbers, has put math in a popular context
Societal communication about STEM is lacking
Public benefit and private good, what is the return on the investment
Federal regulation has to be periodically reauthorized
How do we help our graduates deal with the realities and politics of the work world extend the pipeline
We need to provide an on-going network of support for graduates
Make better connections with our graduates when we are fundraising
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