How Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students Derive a Sense of Be- longing from Engineering
How Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students Derive a Sense of Be- longing from Engineering
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少数族裔工科学生如何从工程中获得归属感
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10.18260/1-2--19688
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发表时间：
2013
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C. Samuelson
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作者：
Elizabeth Litzler;C. Samuelson
虽然感到不堪重负的工作量，速度和概念上的困难可能是本科工程专业学生的共同经历，但少数民族工程专业学生在本科课程中往往面临额外的挑战，这可能使他们感到孤立，并阻碍他们融入大学校园的能力。融入大学环境对学生在校园中的归属感起着重要的作用，并最终决定他们是否坚持下去。通过各种方式融入大学环境的种族和少数民族学生可以找到支持，如具有相似背景的朋友，先进学生的建议，榜样和顾问，这可以积极影响学业成绩。本文确定了四个主要领域，代表性不足的少数民族学生在工程描述为有助于他们的社区意识和归属感的发展：课外/课外参与，同伴支持，教师和部门的支持，和住宅计划。该研究表明，代表性不足的少数民族工程专业学生能够获得一种融合感，社区和归属感使用多种手段，他们使用的支持机制随着时间的推移发生了变化。通过了解代表性不足的少数民族能够融入他们的大学校园并最终找到社区和归属感的不同方式，工程项目可以制定策略，以更好地支持代表性不足的少数民族学生在他们的项目中，可能有助于学生的坚持和保留。
While feeling overwhelmed by the workload, pace and conceptual difficulties can be a common experience among undergraduate engineering students, ethnic minority engineering students often face additional challenges in their undergraduate programs, which can make them feel isolated and hinder their ability to integrate into their college campuses. Integration into the college environment plays an important role in students feeling a sense of belonging on campus, and ultimately in their decisions to persist. Racial and ethnic minority students who are integrated into the college environment through various means can find supports such as friends with similar backgrounds, advice from advanced students, and role models and advisors, which can positively influence academic performance. This paper identifies four main areas which under-represented minority students in engineering described as helpful to their development of a sense of community and belonging: co-curricular/extracurricular involvement, peer support, faculty and department support, and residence programs. The study demonstrates that underrepresented minority engineering students were able to derive a sense of integration, community and belonging using multiple means, and that the support mechanisms they used changed a bit over time. By understanding the different ways that under-represented minorities are able to integrate into their college campuses and ultimately find a sense of community and belonging, engineering programs can work to develop strategies to better support under-represented minority students in their programs, potentially contributing to student persistence and retention.