Recruiting & Retaining Students with Disabilities in Engineering, Science and Mathematics

科学和技术领域中的妇女、少数群体和残疾人问题工作队建议采取行动，增加残疾人对科学和工程的参与。在这一点上，这些教育改革最受关注的是大学前的科学和数学教育，但要实现这一目标，高校必须参与进来。该项目的目标是招收和留住华盛顿大学工程和科学专业的残疾学生。该项目包括四个部分：(1)为残疾中学生提供的暑期寄宿科学计划；(2)为参与的暑期学生提供指导计划，该计划将在很大程度上依赖于与科学家(其中许多人有残疾)的全年基于计算机的互动；(3)为大学教职员工和本地大学预科理科教师提供“多元化意识”计划；以及(4)一项信息传播计划，其中将包括向西北地区的科学和数学教师进行外联。将制作和分发各种形式的招收和留住残疾学生的材料--录像带、录音带、计算机磁盘、可通过因特网查阅的电子文件；以及标准和大号印刷体和盲文的书面小册子。一次会议将提供一个机会，传播招聘/保留材料以及专门为暑期计划编制的材料。它们将被其他学校改编使用。每季度为教职员工、学生和当地理科教师举办的“多元化意识”研讨会，旨在提高对残疾学生面临的障碍的认识，并提出向残疾学生提供获得教育和校园服务的创造性和实用的方法。该项目开发的方法将作为华盛顿大学其他学院以及全国其他校园招收和留住残疾学生的模式。

The Task Force on Women, Minorities and the Handicapped in Science and Technology recommended that actions be taken to increase the participation of persons with disabilities in science and engineering. To this point, most attention to these educational reforms has been given to precollege science and mathematics education, but colleges and universities must be involved if this goal is to be reach. The goals of this project are to recruit and retain students with disabilities in the engineering and science programs at the University of Washington. The project includes four components: (1) A live-in summer science program for secondary-level students who have disabilities; (2) A mentoring program for the participating summer students that will rely heavily on year-round computer-based interactions with scientists ( many of whom have disabilities); (3) A "diversity awareness" program for university faculty and staff and local pre-college science teachers; and (4) An information dissemination program that will include outreach to science and math teachers in the northwest region. Materials for recruiting and retaining students with disabilities will be produced and distributed in a variety of forms -- videotape; audiotape; computer disks; electronic files accessible over the Internet network; and written brochures in standard and large print, and braille. A conference will provide an opportunity for dissemination of materials for recruitment/retention as well as those developed specifically for the summer program. They will be adaptable for use by other schools. The quarterly "diversity awareness" workshops for faculty, staff, students, and local science teachers, are intended to increase the awareness of barriers faced by students with disabilities and to present creative and practical approaches for providing access to instruction and campus services to students with disabilities. Methods developed in this project will serve as models for recruiting and retaining students with disabilities in other colleges at the University of Washington as well as on other campuses across the country.