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This paper details the successful strategies used over five years to recruit and employ qualified women, Native Hawaiians, and other engineers with local ties in Maui. These efforts reached over 5,000 expatriates, attracted nearly 800 applicants and resulted in more than 70 job placements.

Seven women who persisted in STEM careers after participating in a single-sex living and learning community (LLC) for women in STEM were interviewed to see how the LLC impacted their decisions. The results show that the LLC positively affected their persistence.

This brief case study highlights Las Positas College in Livermore, California, which took part in the CalWomen Tech project. The project involved each college participating in four core recruitment strategies. Outreach took form in the place of posters, flyers, brochures and a website. Las Positas...

This 2-page case study, provided by the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, highlights Louisiana Technical College's trucking program, centered at the Lafourche campus. Of 138 graduates of the two-year program, 18% were women, which was much higher than the national...

These slides are from a presentation given by Ryan McDermott at The Military as a Pathway to Skilled Technical Jobs meeting. This presentation focuses on attracting and retaining talent in the national security workforce. Slide topics include: How do we attract and retain talent in the national...

This web site provides information on the Math Works advocacy kit. These kits provide "resources that make the case for why all students, regardless of their plans after graduation, should engage in rigorous math course-taking throughout their high school experiences." The kit includes materials...

This 8-page resource, created by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), provides an aggregated summary of strategies and best practices for recruiting and retaining under-served student populations. These strategies and best practices were pulled from a variety of websites, reports, and...

These presentation slides, made available by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), are from a webinar given by Nick Ellis, CEO of Job Rooster. This presentation describes how college student success and retention rates can be improved with mobile technology. Topics covered include...

The National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, & Sciences (IWITTS) website provides articles on training, strategies, publications, and technical assistance designed to integrate women into technology and law enforcement careers in which they are underrepresented. Careers range from...

The National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) aims to help "educators nationwide close the gender gap for women and girls in male-dominated careers, such as technology, the trades and law enforcement." This is the IWITTS YouTube channel and it showcases videos on women...