NACME Creating Opportunities, Ensuring Success

1. NACMECreating Opportunities, Ensuring Success

2. Overview Pre-engineering Programs • Middle and High School – develop collaborative relationships Scholarship and Student Support • Community College • Increase awareness of career opportunities in Engineering • Improve transition to 4 year institutions – Articulation Agreements • Universities • Scholarships – 5 year commitment • Diversity matters – recruit, retain and graduate • Evaluate effectiveness of student support strategies – share best practices • Facilitate corporate internships and recruitment – online resume system • Post Graduate -Support Sloan Foundation Minority PhD Program Research • Publish reports, articles, op-ed pieces and editorials and participate in panels • Increase understanding and provide recommendations on the the national issues related to minorities in the fields of engineering, science and technology National Meetings • Communications and community building • Leaders from industry, education, foundations and government

3. University Program

4. University Program 1,269 Scholars - 20% growth Y-T-Y • Cash Grants total $1.6M – growing to $1.8M in 2008 • Retention rate of 82% vs. national average of 39% • 3.1 Average GPA • 33% women compared to national avg. of 24% • 49% African American; 43% Latino; 5% American Indian; 3% Other Community College Programs • San Diego • Maryland

5. Partner Universities Prairie View A&M University Purdue University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rochester Institute of Technology Stevens Institute of Technology Syracuse University Temple University Tennessee Technological University Tuskegee University University of Akron University of Bridgeport* University of California, San Diego University of Central Florida University of Colorado – Boulder University of Houston University of Illinois, Chicago University of Maryland, Baltimore County University of Missouri, Rolla University of Southern California University of Texas, El Paso University of Texas, San Antonio University of Washington Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Arizona State University, Tempe Bucknell University California State University, Los Angeles California State University, Sacramento City College of The City University of New York Clarkson University Cornell University Drexel University Fairfield University Florida International University Georgia Institute of Technology Howard University Jackson State University Kansas State University Kettering University Louisiana State University Marquette University Michigan Technological University New Jersey Institute of Technology North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina State University Northern Arizona University Polytechnic University Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

6. Pre-Engineering Program

7. Pre-Engineering Facts • 70% of 8th Graders are not proficient in reading and will never catch up • 1.1M American high school students drop out every year – 6K every school day • America has world’s largest economy - $11.1 Trillion (China 2.0 Trillion) • Americans are more productive than their global peers • US attracts the most foreign investment • R&D in the US is the world’s largest – emerging markets growing faster • American citizens make up a declining share of science and engineering students • May 2007 – Minority population in America exceeds 100 million

8. Pre-Engineering How are underrepresented minorities doing? • Math test scores – wide gaps and growing • Advanced math completion – white students 47%, minority students 31% • High School graduation rates – improving but wide gaps still persist • College – White 28%, Black 19%, Latino/Hispanic 12% • USA ranks 10th in the world for college attainment ages 25-34 • College graduates by age 26 – high income families 60%, low income families 7% • USA invests significantly more in education than other countries, yet we rank 22 out of 26 in math performance • In 2002 only 4% of minorities (28K out of 690K) had taken and passed sufficient math and science to qualify for admission to study engineering and technology at the college level – of those 16,800 admitted

9. Pre-Engineering Deliverables: • The NACME Guide to Engineering Colleges (in collaboration with The Princeton Review) • Helping Teachers Make a Difference (in collaboration with Cambell-Kibler) • Quick Study Guide for Students and Parents (in collaboration with Guaranteed 4.0) • Engineering Your Future: A Career Guide for Minority Youth • Classroom STEM Materials (posters, deliverables, etc.) • NACMEBacksMe.org – December 2007 Partnerships • ACE Mentoring Program - high school outreach program that includes mentors and the development of education and career-related materials to support the AOE students • MESA – bring after school programs to the AOE sites California/Washington Grants & Scholarships • Teacher STEM Innovation Grants (Deadline: November 30th, 2007) • Student Pre-Engineering Scholarships (Deadline: May 31st, 2008) Symposium • NACME Symposium and Partner Meeting - May 27th- May 29th, 2008

10. Academy of Engineering(AOE) • The National Academy Foundation, Project Lead the Way and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering • A partnership to create small learning communities in high schools focused on Science/Technology/Engineering/Math (STEM). The goals are: • Recruit and encourage more high school students to investigate careers in engineering science and technology • Increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in the study of engineering • High school graduates ready for postsecondary education and prepared to succeed and graduate with a degree in the field

11. AOE Involvement National Academy Foundation (NAF): unique capabilities and documented success in developing specialized career academies in Finance, IT, Travel and Tourism Project Lead The Way (PLTW): Provides the curriculum development for core pre-engineering studies, teacher certification and classroom requirements National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME): reinforcing and enhancing the educational experience in the classroom by providing support to the local community, students and parents – using a collaboration model

12. AOE Guidelines The guidelines for this new academy include: • Small, 400 student four-year high school • Either stand-alone or small learning community in an urban school • Must have a separate leader and independent, dedicated staff across all disciplines and approval by the school district • Degree of autonomy negotiated with school district and significant budget authority • AOE will not be a set of drop-in courses • AOE will not be for the top students of a high school or community, but must be open to all students of the school • Agreed policy for admission to program (Student expresses interest in theme and enrolling in the school) • Every student graduates ready for success at a four-year institution • STEM theme: The academy will center its course curriculum on science, technology, engineering and math

13. Advisory BoardInvolvement TENTATIVE

14. NACME Model for Collaboration Partner Universities Academy of Engineering MESA Programs SLOAN/GEM/NACME ACE Programs

15. Research and Policy

16. Research and Policy 2007 • Scholarship Program evaluation • Progress report –Minorities in Engineering • Coming later this fall 2008 • Executive Roundtable (January) – Efforts to enhance minority participation in STEM education • Graduating scholar survey • Women in engineering – focus on women of color • Proving the model – joint study PLTW/NACME • Community College – Transfer student performance at 4 year institutions

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19. Contact Information Raluca Cadar Program Manager, Pre-Engineering NACME, Inc. 440 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 302 White Plains, NY 10601-1813 Tel:     914-539-4010 x 202 Fax:    914-539-4032 Email: rcadar@nacme.org