METS pilot program: A community college/university collaboration to recruit underrepresented minority students into engineering

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 9741-9749

  Anderson Rowland, Mary R ^a,c   Vanis, Mary I ^b   Banks, Debra L ^a,d   Mater, Bassam ^b   Zerby, Donna M ^a,c   Chain, Elizabeth ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Maricopa Community Colleges ^*  (United States)

^c Arizona State University   (United States)

^d ASU

Author keywords

Collaboration; Community College; Integrated Programs; Recruitment; Retention; Transfer Student; Transition Student; Underrepresented Minorities; Women

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; COMMUNITY COLLEGE; INTEGRATED PROGRAMS; RECRUITMENT; RETENTION; TRANSFER STUDENTS; TRANSITION STUDENT; UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES;

COLLEGE BUILDINGS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PERSONNEL; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 5444249989     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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