Career and Technical Education is a significant part of many high school curricula. Technology courses offer hands-on learning and problem-solving skills to prepare students to be both college and career ready. The teachers who obtain a degree in this field are often referred to as Technology and Engineering Educators (TEE). TEE majors in the…

While many technical disciplines have reached or are moving toward gender parity in the number of bachelors degrees in those fields, the percentage of women graduating in computer science remains stubbornly low. Many recent efforts to address this situation have focused on retention of undergraduate majors or graduate students, recruiting…

We describe a day-long introduction to new accounting majors, which we call a boot camp. Boot camp it is an effort to make juniors more aware of their identity, career purposes and learning resources that are now parts of their world, much of which is not covered explicitly in the accounting curriculum. This paper provides an overview of the…

"Lumina Foundation Lessons" is an occasional publication in which the foundation shares the results of its grantees' work on strategies to improve the persistence rates among Indiana's underserved college freshman and sophomore populations. This issue, the first in the series, contains the following articles: (1) Summer Transition…

Presents a high school journalism teacher-newspaper advisor's practical 10-step plan to recruit minority students for the school newspaper staff. Notes that the staff of James Whitcomb Riley High School's "Review" changed their coverage, sought diverse input, and implemented many nontraditional approaches. (NKA)

The following are among the 47 papers included: "Academic Performance and Retention of College of Agriculture Students" (Garton, Dyer, King); "Perceptions of Recent Graduates and Employers about Undergraduate Programs in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University" (Heyboer, Suvedi);…