HR: 0800h
AN: ED21B-0066    [Abstracts]
TI: Retention: A Model
AU: * Davis, E J
EM: edavis@bowiestate.edu
AU: Strand, D
EM: dstrand@bowiestate.edu
AU: Wiggs, M
EM: mwiggs@bowiestate.edu
AB: Bowie State University, one of six institutions, received a Model Institution for Excellence Award through the National Science Foundation and was funded by the National Aeronautic Space Administration - Goddard Space Flight Center. The primary goals for the Initiative are to increase Science Mathematics Engineering and Technology (SMET)student enrollment, retention and graduation rates and the number of minorities and women entering graduate school and SMET related workforces. Additionally, a satellite operations and control center was established at Bowie State University to provide training for students interested in space science. Thus far, the number of students entering the SMET domain has increase, the retention rate is up to 72-75%, graduation rate is up 80% and approximately 70 certifications have been awarded to students as Command Controllers, Spacecraft Analysts or Mission Planners as a result of their training in the Bowie State Satellite Operations and Control Center (BSOCC). The partnership between NASA and Bowie State University has been extremely beneficial to both and has established a model for the retention of science, mathematics, engineering and technology students.
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting