Student Success: Access, Motivation, Retention (SAMR) Subcommittee

Notes for the Meeting of March 15, 2006

Committee Chair: Eileen Boerger.

Agenda posted Tuesday March 14, 10:00 am

Roster of Members  
Opassamr - Email to the entire committee  
Email to Jo Oshiro, OPAS Staff Support
   
Subcommittees  
Related Events, Activities, Webpages  
   
Mission & Recommendations  
Resources  
 Previously Posted Resources  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAMR Mission: Identifying perceived barriers to access and developing strategies to increase student confidence in their ability to succeed. Identifying motivational and retention strategies that will inspire students to pursue engineering & applied science education and support these students in completing this education.

Recommendations:  The two priority strategies were to form a stakeholder team to rethink standards and develop a problem solving, inquiry-based model; and create a statewide council for resource coordination and planning.

Resources:

Previously Posted Resources:

Agenda for the first meeting posted Tuesday, March 14, 10:00 am

1:30-1:40

Introductions

1:40 - 1:50

Overview of OPAS efforts – Bruce

  • Overall purpose, mission, themes
  • How subcommittee fits in OPAS efforts
               
1:50 -2:05

Review of SAMR mission
2:05 - 2:40

Review of SAMR recommendations from summit

  • Do we understand recommendations?
  • Do they need refining or is anything missing?
  • How do these compare to the mission/recommendations being developed by other committees?
  • Are they do-able?
  • Basic approach to acting on recommendations (priorities, steps)
2:40 - 2:55

What do we need to move forward?

  • Other members needed? (with other skills or represent other organizations)
  • Other resources needed?
  • Work methodology (meetings, e-mail, website, etc)
2:55-3:00 Wrapup and next meeting

OPAS Student Success: Access, Motivation, Retention (SAMR) Subcommittee
Notes from the Meeting of Tuesday, March 15, 2006

Attending: Eileen Boerger, Bruce Schafer, Dick Knight, Marcia Fischer, Jo Oshiro

  • Overview of OPAS Efforts (Bruce)
    • Lateral communication highly encouraged
  • Review of SAMR Mission as stated: “Identifying perceived barriers to access and developing strategies to increase student confidence in their ability to succeed.  Identifying motivational and retention strategies that will inspire students to pursue engineering & applied science education and support these students in completing this education.”
    • Problem: Even when decent curricula/ courses are available students either don’t take them or drop out, because of perceived difficulty, peer pressure, or lack of knowledge
    • New Mission formulated, subject to further wordsmithing:  Increase the number of students who go into, stay with, and succeed in Engineering and Applied Science Career paths.
  • Review of SAMR Recommendations from the Summit as stated: “ The two priority strategies were to form a stakeholder team to rethink standards and develop a problem-solving, inquiry-based model; and create a statewide council for resource coordination and planning.”
    • Recommendations discussed:
      • Rethinking K12 standards should be removed to another committee; can’t have much impact on national engineering curriculum such as ABET.
      • Ensuring access – should be removed to another committee.
      • Use motivation as a focus to meet the mission
        • Target middle school, high school and undergraduate college levels
        • Interest/attraction à preparation
        • Motivate students to go into engineering and applied sciences
        • Retain students once they are in engineering and applied sciences
  • What do we need to move forward?
    • Do some research
    • Educators can bring in published literature
    • Recruit some industry representation, especially entrepreneurial types.     
      • ETIC contacts – Eileen & Bruce
      • Joe Waln – Engineers without Borders
      • Recent graduate/dropout/current student
    • Find political will & capital
    • Connect with subcommittee members who were not able to attend – Eileen will talk with Ellen Momsen, OSU; David Coronado, PSU/MESA; Eda Davis-Butts, OSU/SMILE; Bob Dunton, Corbett School District.
    • Jo will furnish committee contact info as a spreadsheet
    • Set the next meeting

Respectfully submitted,
Jo Oshiro

SAMR Subcommittee Members:   email to entire subcommittee

Chair Eileen Boerger Vice President & General Manager, Agilis Solutions
Ellen Momsen Director, Women & Minorities in Engineering, OSU
David Coronado Oregon MESA, PSU
Marcia Fischer Assistant Dean for Enrollment & Outreach, PSU
Eda Davis-Butts Oregon SMILE, OSU
Dick Knight Chair, Friends of Saturday Academy
Bob Dunton Superintendent, Corbett School District
Jo Oshiro OUS Staff Support
 

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