Tech scholars learning community: a college-university partnership program for academically and economically disadvantaged students

Author

Yeh, Chih-Ping ; Kanoyton, Silverenia ; Daiek, Deborah

Author_Institution

Div. of Eng. Technol., Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

20-23 Oct. 2004

Abstract

This paper describes a college-university partnership program, namely the tech scholar learning community, formed by the Division of Engineering Technology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and the Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. The objective is to increase the number of academically and economically disadvantaged students who transfer from community colleges to baccalaureate programs. The strategies adopted to improve transfer rates are presented, and the criteria for selection of the target students and the factors affecting the transfer of the target group are discussed.

Keywords

educational institutions; engineering education; Division of Engineering Technology; Michigan; Tech scholars learning community; Wayne State University; college-university partnership program; community college; minority student; transfer student; Computer aided manufacturing; Continuing education; Coordinate measuring machines; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Educational technology; Engineering profession; Information systems; Optical design; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education, 2004. FIE 2004. 34th Annual

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8552-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2004.1408716

Filename

1408716