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- ecacy. 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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