Empowering Underrepresented Students in Science: Stem Students Speak Johnson-Anderson Sonji
Empowering Underrepresented Students in Science: Stem Students Speak Johnson-Anderson Sonji Empowering Underrepresented Students in Science: STEM Students Speak chronicles the best practices of a…
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Empowering Underrepresented Students in Science: Stem Students Speak Johnson-Anderson Sonji
Empowering Underrepresented Students in Science: STEM Students Speak chronicles the best practices of a STEM retention program for underrepresented minority students (URM) at a public university. It reveals to readers what lies at the heart of creating and sustaining a STEM retention program that is as inviting as it is vital. Written mostly as an engaging series of vignettes, this story invites its audience to examine the "underbelly" of this successful program.
This book addresses the problem of merely throwing resources at a program to have it only achieve mild success.Most STEM retention/support programs offer a litany of "things" they think are necessary for students, especially traditionally underserved students, to survive in STEM. The program's practice of reflection helps to build students' self-efficacy and self-understanding. We contend that our program goes