Carpenter, J. P., & Rynearson, L. K., & Albers, L. A., & Miller, M. (2017, June), Attracting and Retaining a Diverse Cohort of Engineering Majors:  Building a Program from the Ground Up  Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. 10.18260/1-2--27646

\bibitem{asee_peer_27646}
  Carpenter, J. P., \& Rynearson, L. K., \& Albers, L. A., \& Miller, M. (2017, June), \emph{Attracting and Retaining a Diverse Cohort of Engineering Majors:  Building a Program from the Ground Up}
  Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Columbus, Ohio.
  10.18260/1-2--27646

Jenna P. Carpenter, Lee Kemp Rynearson, Lynn A. Albers, and Michele Miller.  "Attracting and Retaining a Diverse Cohort of Engineering Majors:  Building a Program from the Ground Up".  2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2017.  https://strategy.asee.org/27646 Internet.  14 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_27646}
  Jenna P. Carpenter, Lee Kemp Rynearson, Lynn A. Albers, and Michele Miller.
  "Attracting and Retaining a Diverse Cohort of Engineering Majors:  Building a Program from the Ground Up".
  \emph{2017 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2017.
  https://strategy.asee.org/27646 Internet.  14 May, 2024

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author = "Jenna P. Carpenter, Lee Kemp Rynearson, Lynn A. Albers, and Michele Miller"
title = "Attracting and Retaining a Diverse Cohort of Engineering Majors:  Building a Program from the Ground Up"
booktitle = "2017 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - In Fall 2016, Campbell University welcomed its first cohort of engineering majors, the culmination of fourteen months of planning and recruiting.  Building a new school of engineering affords a number of unique opportunities, including the chance to develop an engineering program based on best practices, engineering education research, and the recommendations of national reports such as "Educating the Engineer of 2020," among others.  Central to starting a new engineering program is crafting a unique business case, complete with a marketing and recruiting plan designed to attract a cohort of students willing to partner with the faculty and staff to create the communicated vision.  In this paper, we identify the key obstacles to attracting a diverse cohort of students to a new program, along with the evidence-based strategies used to tackle those obstacles in recruiting for the new engineering program.  We report on the diversity of both our newly admitted students and the students transferring into engineering from other schools in the university.  We will also report on retention efforts, derived from best practices, and enrollment data at the end of the first semester, as well as examining an early snapshot of the diversity of our second year of entering students.
AU  - Jenna P. Carpenter
AU  - Lee Kemp Rynearson
AU  - Lynn A. Albers
AU  - Michele Miller
CY  - Columbus, Ohio
DA  - 2017/06/24
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Attracting and Retaining a Diverse Cohort of Engineering Majors:  Building a Program from the Ground Up
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