Minority Engineering Association Urges National Focus on Community College Students

Minority Engineering Association Urges National Focus on Community College Students: WASHINGTON – A national engineering science group, citing the surge in minority student enrollment in community colleges, says more emphasis should be placed on two-year college students as a key to boosting science, technology, engineering and math degree candidates and graduates.

At a Capitol Hill briefing here Wednesday, the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) called on the nation’s higher education community to do more to remove decades-old academic transfer and financial barriers that “impede” the efforts of many community college students to attend and graduate from four-year, degree-granting engineering and related science programs.