The Influence of Professional Engineering Organizations on Women and Underrepresented Minority Students’ Fit

Our work focuses on women and underrepresented minority (URM) students’ cultural models of engineering success (CMES) or beliefs about doing well in engineering. Because of its consequential effect on persistence, we pay special attention to the fit domain of CMES—student feelings of belonging in th...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Education
Main Authors:	Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, Gladis Kersaint, Chrystal A. S. Smith, Ellen Puccia, Oxana Sidorova, Hannah Cooke, Hesborn Wao, Julie P. Martin, John Skvoretz, George MacDonald, Reginald Lee
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-01
Subjects:	social capital belonging STEM-Science Technology Engineering Mathematics women black students
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2021.755471/full

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