Success Of Womenengineers Atrnbucknell Drawsrn$400,000 Luce Grant

摘要

Bucknell University reports more than an 80 percent retention rate among women engineering majors, who comprise 27 percent of the college. The high retention rate is one of the reasons Bucknell won a five-year, $400,000 grant for 20 scholarships for women through the Clare Boothe Luce Program of the Henry Luce Foundation. According to James Orbison, dean of Bucknell's College of Engineering, the national average is 17 percent. Bucknell's Office of Admissions will match the grant with $1.2 million in scholarships, whichwillbeawardedbasedonmerit.Typically, said Orbison, scholarships funded through Luce grants are awarded to college juniors and seniors, but the Bucknell scholarships willrnbe given to first-year students.