Assessment of programs that encourage students from diverse populations to consider transportation careers.

Details

• Creators:
  Jasek, Debbie
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Diversity In The Workplace Transportation--Vocational Guidance--Evaluation Transportation Careers
• Publication/ Report Number:
  SWUTC/10/167175-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Edition:
  Technical report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Southwest Region University Transportation Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  The primary purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes, experiences, and awareness level of
  
  students exposed to a specialized transportation curriculum and to track the progress of participants in a
  
  series of summer transportation institutes and other outreach programs held during the period, 1999-2008.
  
  These programs include the Summer Transportation Institutes in Texas, Go Girl!, On the Move!, Career
  
  Exploration, the Rural Transportation Institutes, and Students from Nontraditional Backgrounds. Although
  
  an attempt was made to contact students from all of outreach events, the vast majority of responses and data
  
  were obtained from the participants in the Texas Summer Transportation Institute and the SWUTC funded
  
  Summer Aviation Transportation Institute and Rural Summer Transportation Institute.
  
  Many of the students contacted are either currently attending a university or beginning their careers. This
  
  project attempted to determine the status of these students and document whether and where they are
  
  attending college as well as their course of study. If appropriate the team then contacted the student to gauge
  
  their desire for interaction with either a University Transportation Center or transportation program.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  10727
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a48e3b7cd1da79bd1d94c6e5525591331e581af215e9dea70d1e4ca87fdcf4f5
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17806/dot_17806_DS1.pdf
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