Retention of Miniority Students in Engineering

摘要

The Retention Task Force was established in November 1975 to examine the causes of the high rate of attrition among minority students in engineering schools and to help improve the efforts to increase the opportunities for minority students to enter and complete engineering education. As the study progressed, the Task Force became aware that the lack of accurate data on the retention of minorities in engineering schools limited its ability to accurately evaluate the problem. To make up for the absence of published material on retention of minority engineering students, the Task Force adopted a parallel approach of gathering new data through a survey of engineering schools and collecting the observations of the minority programs directors in those schools. On its own, the Task Force collected meaningful data from the schools, and it is presented in this report.