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STEM Equity Pipeline

STEM Equity Pipeline. Iowa Community Colleges: Expanding Options for Women and Girls in STEM June 25, 2009 Courtney Reed Jenkins National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation 608/886-0728 creedjenkins@napequity.org. Goals for today.

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STEM Equity Pipeline

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  1. STEM Equity Pipeline Iowa Community Colleges: Expanding Options for Women and Girls in STEM June 25, 2009 Courtney Reed Jenkins National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation 608/886-0728 creedjenkins@napequity.org

  2. Goals for today • Step 1: Document Performance Results 15 minutes • Review and edit data summary • Compare to data analysis at IHCC & IWCC • Step 2: Identify Root CausesStep 3: Select Best Solutions90 minutes • Review root causes • Expand evidence base for root cause(s) Break for 15 minutes • Step 4: Pilot Test and Evaluate Solutions90 minutes

  3. Document Performance Results (Step 1) • Iowa requires comprehensive career planning, beginning in eighth grade. • Iowa requires students to take three years of HS science and three years of HS math (many require four) to graduate (2011). • Student choice for elective courses is decreasing, due to fewer periods per day and increase in core requirements.

  4. Document Performance Results (Step 1) • In some feeder HS programs, we serve low numbers of female students. For example, during this school year: • 0 female students in Blueprint Reading (gateway course) in 2007 and 2008; 1 female student in 2009 • 0 female students in Metals for the past three years • Female participation in product development ranges from small (1/17) to roughly 30% • … which means very few females are being prepared to enter into our CC programs…

  5. Document Performance Results (Step 1) • We serve very few female students in our classes. For example, this year: • Female participation in EMC² is always less than 10% • Female participation in welding ranges from 2.5% to 17% • We do not retain 100% of female students in our classes. However, … • … the number of female students entering the programs are so small that it is hard to analyze the drop-out rate; • … we do not retain 100% of male students, either.

  6. Document Performance Results (Step 1) • Female students in our programs are financially supported: • The majority of female students are nontraditional female students supported by community business • Except for financial assistance, we do not provide other formal support to the female students in our nontrad programs.

  7. Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3) • What barriers exist (“root causes”) to increasing our number of nontraditional female students – and what might solutions look like? • Access to & participation in STEM, materials & practices, support services, role models/mentoring, and collaboration • Summarize the research within the context of community colleges • Document examples of how you know this is true at HCC • Share examples of successful programs and projects – what does it take? • On a scale of 1 (least likely to be a root cause and/or make an impact) to 5 (most likely to be a root cause and/or make an impact), rank the root cause/best solutions

  8. Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3) • Access to and participation in math, science, and technology • What the research tells us:Evidence of this at HCC: • Successful programs…: • Chicago Women and the Trades: TOP Program • Madison Area Technical College: Women in Trades and Technology • Re-entering the Workforce (NFAW, p. 173) • Rank:

  9. Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3) • Materials and Practices • What the research tells us: • Evidence of this at HCC: • Successful programs…: • Michigan’s Breaking Traditions Award • Changing College Freshmen’s Attitudes toward Women in STEM (NTAW2, p. 38) • U of O IT Program (NFAW2, p. 44, and NTAW, p. 39) • WOMENTECH at Community Colleges (NFAW, p. 195): • Community College of Rhode Island • College of Alameda • Rank:

  10. Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3) • Support Services • What the research tells us: • Evidence of this at HCC: • Successful programs…: • Conduct support groups and peer counseling • Orientation programs: Re-entering the Workforce (NFAW, p. 173) • Facilitate informal support groups • Support groups • Rank:

  11. Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3) • Role Models/Mentoring • What the research tells us: • Evidence of this at HCC: • Successful programs…: • Community-based Mentoring (NFAW, p. 49) • RISE: Research Internship in Science and Engineering (NFAW, p. 21) • MentorNet: http://www.mentornet.net/ • Rank:

  12. Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3) • Collaboration • What the research tells us: • Evidence of this at HCC: • Identify five local, regional, or state organizations or businesses that would be interested in partnering on this issue: • Rank:

  13. Would anyone like their own copies of NSF materials? http://www.nsf.gov/ehr/hrd/Newformulas/newformulas.jsp

  14. Pilot Test and Evaluate Solutions (Step 4) • HCC Implementation Plan • Root causes • Core values • Funding/resources

  15. Next steps & Evaluations

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