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CCASE Program

SWE's Community College Affiliate Support and Expansion (CCASE) Program aims to increase support for Community College Affiliates across the United States. By offering direct financial and membership incentives, we aim to facilitate professional development and outreach activities.

The Impact of SWE Scholarships on Retention in Engineering, Engineering Technology, and Computer Science

SWE scholarships have a significant impact on women's retention in engineering and technology degree programs!

Tags: General Higher Education

Recruiting and Retaining Women in STEM from Minority-Serving Institutions

In 2023, SWE conducted a qualitative study to understand the various activities of mentoring programs for women in STEM academia across four higher education institutions in Austria and Germany.

Tags: Women of Color, SWE Research: Higher Ed

Mentoring Programs for Women in STEM: Mentoring Modules

Mentoring modules provide readers with some of the research literature that informed a SWE study on the factors contributing to a strong mentoring program for women in STEM.

Tags: General Higher Education, SWE Research: Higher Ed

Case Study on Mentoring Programs for Women in STEM

In 2023, SWE conducted a qualitative study to understand the various activities of mentoring programs for women in STEM academia across four higher education institutions in Austria and Germany.

Tags: General Higher Education, SWE Research: Global, Germany

Exploring the Relationship Between Diverse Engineering Faculty and Women’s Degree Attainment

This study investigates the relationship between women's representation in engineering tenured/tenure-track faculty positions and the percentage of degrees awarded to women in engineering fields at doctoral universities in the United States.

Tags: General Higher Education

Collegiate Leadership Institute: WoC in STEM

50K Coalition

The 50K Coalition is a sustained and structured collaboration of associations, colleges, universities, agencies, corporations, and foundations working to increase the number of diverse engineering graduates to 50,000 per year by 2025.

Tags: Women of Color, Women Engineers in the Workplace

Diversifying STEM: Student Success and Community College Transfer in Engineering and Computer Science

Community college students are often excluded from conversations surrounding broadening participation in STEM, particularly in the fields of engineering and computer science (ECS). The Society of Women Engineers conducted a phased research study of ECS transfer students to understand the success of women and minority students on this pathway towards a baccalaureate degree.

Tags: General Higher Education

COVID-19 Research

In June 2020, SWE surveyed its members to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic was impacting their college and career plans. Most survey respondents were U.S.-based. In October 2020, a second survey was sent to SWE members in India to determine how the pandemic was affecting women engineers and engineering students in that country. Read about…

Tags: General Higher Education, Women Engineers in the Workplace, COVID-19