"Retaining Female Students by Teaching to Their Learning Style"

Donna Milgram
Executive Director
Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science (IWITTS)
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Want to know how to engage and retain more female students by teaching to their learning style? Interested in learning which retention strategies real female community college technology students rate as most helpful? Join Donna Milgram, NSF CalWomenTech Scale Up Project PI, to learn proven strategies for retaining female students. Want to know how to engage and retain more female students by teaching to their learning style? Interested in learning which retention strategies real female community college technology students rate as most helpful? Join Donna Milgram--IWITTS Executive Director and PI of the CalWomenTech Scale Up Project--to learn strategies used by City College of San Francisco's CNIT program to improve the retention rate of female students by 14.4 percentage points (from a baseline of 64.1% to 78.5% on average).You'll see results from two surveys of female technology students across seven California community college programs and learn evidence-based strategies and teaching techniques for appealing to female students.