RETAINING FEMALE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE: 1995 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION

With a six-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Women in Engineering (WIE) Initiative at the University of Washington is conducting a longitudinal study of undergraduate women pursuing degrees in science or engineering. Now in its fifth year, four of six cohorts of approximately 100 students each year have been added to the study. The objectives of this study are to (a) determine a more accurate measure of retention by tracking...