Recruitment and Retention of Students and Faculty With Disabilities

这笔赠款将使美国科学促进会能够通过一个探索残疾学生在工程教育中障碍的长期项目，直面科学和工程劳动力迫在眉睫的危机中的一个领域。该项目将与工程学院的院长和学院合作，制定招聘和留用战略，并确定更容易进入教育过程的辅助技术和其他支助服务。六所工程学院将被选为招收和保留残疾学生的示范项目的选址。同时，还将评估对残疾学生进行数据收集的方法，并开发可针对工程学校的调查问题。将通过各种网络传播成功的战略。在五年项目结束时，预计许多战略将在工科学校制度化，关于留住残疾学生的数据将纳入所有人力资源研究。

This grant will enable the American Association for the Advancement of Science to confront one area in the impending crisis in the science and engineering workforce through a long-term project to explore barriers for students with disabilities in engineering education. The project will work with deans and faculties of schools of engineering to develop strategies for recruitment and retention and to identify assistive technology and other support services that give easier access to the educational process. Six schools of engineering will be selected as sites for model projects in recruitment and retention of students with disabilities. A parallel effort will assess methods of date collection on disabled students and develop survey questions that can be directed at engineering schools. Successful strategies will be disseminated through a variety of networks. At the end of the five year project, it is anticipated that many of the strategies will be institutionalized in schools of engineering and, data on retention of students with disabilities will be included in all human resources studies.