Toward a National Agenda for Broadening Participation of African Americans in Engineering & Computer Science: A Methodological Overview of Phase II

Black Faces, White Spaces: Understanding the Role of Counterspaces in the Black Engineering Graduate Student Experience

“…Despite an increasing interest in diversity and inclusion in engineering, there has been a stagnant trend in the enrollment of Black graduate students while students from other racial minority groups have shown a steady increase over the last decade [1]. Where it might seem that more studies would seek to understand why this is the case for Black students, a recent review of the literature on broadening participation in engineering and computer science found Black graduate students to be the most understudied demographic [2]. Understanding how Black students transition from undergraduate studies and experience graduate studies in engineering could be particularly insightful in demystifying the enrollment and retention trends.…”