Student success: what factors influence persistence?

Abstract:

For the past three years, the Arizona State University's (ASU) Office of Minority Engineering Programs (OMEP) has been hosting the Minority Engineering Program (MEP) Summer Bridge Program. The purpose of the program is to promote greater awareness of an to recruit potential candidates to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) at ASU as well as to increase the retention rate of these students. This article attempts to discover the factors affecting retention through a series of focus group evaluations of the usefulness of the bridge program or the seminar course.

Año de publicación:

1999

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scopus