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SUPPORT BY FACULTY BY GENDER
(%s)
Have there been particular faculty
supportive of you personally this year?
Male Female Total
No 22.4 18.0 21.5
Yes, female faculty 3.4 12.5 5.3
Yes, male faculty 24.2 13.3 22.0
Yes, both male and female faculty 49.9 56.3 51.2
Enrichment Activities with Other Students
Residential arrangements have received a great deal of attention regarding students’
retention in a college in general (Tinto, 1993), and women’s retention in engineering, in
particular. Some of the programs geared to enhancing the persistence of women in
engineering have established living communities for women in science, math, and
engineering, with the rationale that women involved in these disciplines can provide a
supportive network for each other to a greater extent than women in other disciplines
(Hathaway, et. al., 2000; Seymour & Hewitt, 1997). While Rowan has no formal program
of the kind, many of the engineering and other math and science students do room
together. Therefore, another aspect of student life at Rowan that was explored was
whether the students were living with other students in the fields of engineering or related
math and science majors.
When asked about their living arrangements for the academic year, 36.7% of all
engineering students indicated that they were living with other science, math and
engineering students; 36.7% indicated that they were living with students in other
disciplines; and 26.6% indicated that they were not living with students (the majority of
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