Community College Transfer Students: Does Gender Make A Difference?

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Engineers. Her awards are based on her mentoring of students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is the PIC IV Chair and a frequent speaker on career opportunities in engineering, especially for women and minority students.

An Academic Scholarship Program For Transfer Students In Engineering And Computer Science: A Five Year Summary

“…Three students listed additional problems: missing a lot of school due to religious holidays, taking too many credits the first semester, and being ignorant of using blackboard since no announcement was made that class material was posted there. 2 It is the author's opinion that "no easy classes left to take" was actually a larger factor than the transfer students admitted. Transfer students take their English, general studies, and some electives at the CC.…”

“…had taken classes at a CC while in high school. 2 Students were asked to check all reasons that applied.…”

“…The first semester experiences of these transfer students summarized in a previous paper are given here for completeness in Table 2. 2 Nine women and 15 men took this survey. The students were told to check all that applied.…”

Understanding the Path of Engineering and Computer Science Upper Division Transfer Students to a Large University

“…was made of transfer students in the CIRC/METS program who were enrolled in the Academic Success program in Fall 2007. The results of this survey were published in 2008 with all 25 of the transfer students in the program responding to the survey 3. In the 2008 survey, 36% of the transfer students were women compared with 29.5% in this current study.…”

“…The class content has been described in other recent papers [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] ; however, for completeness, a short description is given here. The Academic Success Class has six 75-minute meetings per semester (each meeting is held 5 times to accommodate student schedules).…”