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UP LeveLIng UCLA Gets Creative with the NSBE Retention Program o 20 • nsbe magazine • convention 2013 n the Left Coast last summer, NSBE’s University of California, Los Angeles Chapter heard the directive to focus on Academic Excellence, from the National Executive Board. But it was local motivations that really got them to buy into the NSBE Retention Program. “A lot of our upperclassmen were graduating, and we were losing a lot of our members. So we really wanted to make sure that we kept the members we did have, as we tried to recruit more,” explains NSBE UCLA Chapter President Ashly Ainley, a mechanical engineering student. “And talking to our Industry Advisory Board, we learned that their main priority was academics, and we wanted to make sure we were aligning our chapter with that. “We want our members to get jobs at the end of the day,” she adds. “So in order to do that, we felt that academics was something we really needed to focus on.” NSBE’s Retention Program was launched nationally in 2009 to improve the four- and five-year graduation rates of black college students in science, technology, engineering and math. Originally for freshmen, the program soon developed components for sophomores and juniors. The Retention Program takes NSBE back to its roots. The National Society of Black Engineers was founded in 1975 by six African-American engineering students at Purdue University. These students wanted to stop the huge leakage of their peers from engineering programs at Purdue and other colleges and universities across the nation. www.nsbe.org http://www.nsbe.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of 2013 Convention

2013 Convention
Contents
Your 4.0…Guaranteed!
My Academic Comeback
THE PROGRAMS ZONE
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Inga Brathwaite: Empowered at Toyota
Jerome Brown: Stoking the Engines at Aerojet
Christina Barker: On Track at PGW
Leveling Up
SEEK 2013 Update!
Back to Indiana
NSBE Calendar
Honoring Our Past, Driving Our Community Forward
Passing the Golden Torch
The Professional’s Perspective
Trailblazers
Petroleum Engineering Digs Deep for Talent
Employer Profiles
Celebrating Academic Excellence
Advertisers Index

2013 Convention