NSBE Strategic Articulation - FINAL - Draft in Progress

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS

Member / Stakeholder Engagement: Who are the current/ potential personal and professional connections involved in this experience? What role do they play?

Focus Area: What type of

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?

Study Skills Workshops

Learning how to learn is critical for success in college. These workshops should focus on how students can learn to work smarter, not just harder. (See below for details)

Chapter Leadership

Chapter members, especially freshmen, and sophomores in gateway courses in their major

Graduate students (as facilitators)

Create incentives

Upperclassmen (as facilitators)

Chapter Advisor

Create tracking systems (e.g., align Activity Reports with these data)

Foster Multicultural Engineering/ STEM Program and Faculty Engagement

NSBE chapters should increase engagement with faculty and administration on campus to foster success and confidence. (See below for details.)

Chapter Leadership

Prepare student-centric toolkits to implement and assess this engagement. • Implementation Steps • Best practices • Sample Budgets • Case Studies • Evaluation Forms

Chapter members, especially freshmen, and sophomores in gateway courses in their major

Chapter Advisor

Multicultural Engineering Program Administrator (MEP) (help structure group sessions, and perhaps compensate them, multicultural orientation, training, etc.) Faculty who are aware of NSBE and supporting programming

Create incentives

Create tracking systems (e.g., align Activity Reports with these data)

Mentoring Program

Students who have mentors adjust better to college, feel more supported, and have greater academic program satisfaction. Having mentors with whom students can identify builds self- e‰cacy. Chapters thus should establish mentoring relationships between upper- and lower- classmen, and between students and faculty (group mentoring).

Chapter Leadership

Prepare student-centric toolkits to implement and assess this program. • Implementation Steps • Best practices • Sample Budgets • Case Studies • Evaluation Forms

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Chapter Members

Upperclassmen and Graduate Students (to serve as mentors)

Create incentives

Faculty mentors

Create tracking systems

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