NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS
SET! SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT: Helping NSBE Collegiate Graduate with 3.2 GPA or Better
THINK BIG
NSBE was founded on Purdue University’s campus when six students from Chicago’s South Side (the Chicago Six) invited accredited engineering college and university deans to identify Black student leaders to support a national Black engineering student recruitment and retention eort. On April 10-12, 1975, 48 students representing 32 schools attended the first national meeting and voted to establish the National Society of Black Engineers. In the same pioneering spirit of its founders, NSBE has since expanded to include pre-collegiate and professional members. Still, NSBE’s collegiate members remain the organization’s heartbeat, comprising nearly 60 percent of the membership. Today, NSBE is one of the largest United States based, student- governed professional associations.
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Graduate with a 3.20 GPA or better
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ON YOUR MARK! Giving to Community READY! SET! Scholastic Achievement Pre-collegiate Engagement
However, resting on laurels is not the NSBE way. Despite some presence and progress, Black engineers comprise only 4 percent of all Bachelor’s degrees awarded in engineering; and their representation in the master’s and doctoral levels is even less. This section’s bold initiatives reflect a realization that significantly increasing the number and success of Black engineering and computer science students will require a similar game-changing courage. Exceeding parity will require several bold moves - lifting expectations, intensifying structural and programmatic supports and challenging our norms.
Focus Area: What type of
Member / Stakeholder Engagement: Who are the current/ potential personal and professional connections involved in this experience? What role do they play?
Suggested Changes Necessary: What will we change about the current experience or what should we add to provide additional value to the member? Prepare student-centric toolkits to implement and assess this program. • Implementation Steps • Best practices • Sample budgets • Case studies • Evaluation forms
Program Description: How is this experience, currently inspiring and transforming?
experience will provide value to the member?
Facilitated Study Groups
Typically regularly scheduled study sessions for engineering students to increase understanding of course material and challenging concepts. These groups, which complement the lecture and recitation with supplemental instruction and problem-solving, are typically facilitated by graduate students or upperclassmen with demonstrated proficiency in the subject area. (See below for details) Whether or not upperclassmen, graduate students and postdocs are available, chapter members should self-organize study groups around specific courses. The key is to utilize the study groups in ways that reinforce the learning you do on your own, rather than it being just a homework aid. (See below for details)
Chapter Leadership
Chapter members, especially those in gateway courses in their major
Graduate students (as facilitators)
Upperclassmen (as facilitators)
Create incentives
Multicultural Program Administrator (MEP) (help structure group sessions, and perhaps compensate facilitators, recruiting facilitators, provide, orientation, training, etc.)
Create tracking systems (e.g., align Activity Reports with these data)
Self-Organized Study Groups
Chapter Leadership
Prepare student-centric toolkits to implement and assess this program. • Implementation Steps • Best practices • Sample Budgets • Case Studies • Evaluation Forms
Chapter members
Create incentives
Create tracking systems (e.g., align Activity Reports with these data)
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