Goldshirt Transitional Program: Creating Engineering Capacity And Expanding Diversity Through A Performance Enhancing Year

At our nation's universities, too few rural, low-income, underrepresented minority and firstgeneration students pursue engineering degrees, and most well-prepared women show little interest. Because inadequate pre-college academic preparation is a known critical barrier to university-level engineering admission, one pathway for engineering colleges to increase their undergraduate student population diversity is to commit to boosting the performance of underprepared high school graduates admitted under transitional status.