Comparing Student Outcomes From Four Iterations of an Engineering Learning Community

Three Years of the Urban STEM Collaboratory

“…Additionally, instructors of the ELC courses work together to ensure that content is coordinated. The ELC at CU Denver has a history longer than the Urban STEM Collaboratory, and ELC participation correlated positively with improved outcomes for students [5], [6].…”

"I’m not a big English person but I liked this class”: Lessons from a collaboration between the School of Engineering and the English Department

“…Students in the ELC courses had multiple forms of support not available to students in non-ELC sections of composition [15]. Every year starting in 2019, several of the students participated in a one-week Summer Bridge program in the summer before their first semester, which smoothed their transition to college and helped establish a sense of community [16].…”

Making Meaning through Mentorship: A Student-Led Layered Peer Mentorship Program

“…This paper describes a mentorship program for undergraduate engineering students at a public urban research university, and it will focus on the aspects that make the program most meaningful for the students. This mentorship program is a concerted effort with an engineering learning community (ELC) for first-year students [1,2], which was initially designed to increase student retention at the engineering college. Moreover, eligible students voluntarily take part in an NSF-funded Scholarships for STEM (S-STEM) program where participation in both ELC and the mentorship program is required.…”