This finding has come as good news to the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), Inc. whose release of its “NACME Scholars Retention and Graduation Report Cohort Years 2004 — Summer 2012” study was one of the highlights of the group’s national meeting on Tuesday in Washington.
Dr. Christopher Smith, the director of research and evaluation at NACME, Inc., told roughly 100 meeting attendees that, while additional research is needed to produce six-year graduation rates of NACME Scholars, the newly-released research represents promise for the organization’s goal that its scholars achieve an 80 percent graduation rate. He noted that the study found overall that the six-year graduation rate of underrepresented minorities (URM) is 39.3 percent at 23 NACME Partner Institutions, while the rate for non-underrepresented minority students is 60.3 percent.
