Structural Concerns in Minority Serving Institutions Delivering Online Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Education

9 pages•Published: May 26, 2024

Rachel Mosier, Tulio Sulbaran, Sandeep Langar and Sanjeev Adhikari

Abstract

Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) aim to bring equity to education and support the development of a diverse workforce to address numerous challenges. COVID-19 significantly impacted academia and institutions, including MSI. This research focused on how AEC educators affiliated with MSI were impacted by Online Learning Environment (OLE) proficiency and technology associated with COVID-19 impacts. To determine how educators were affected, an electronic survey was sent to universities within the US. The survey was sent to two population sets of Construction educators and Architecture and Engineering educators, about six months apart. The survey queried AEC educators about their teaching experience, teaching load, proficiency in online content delivery, university policies, concerns over the online delivery of courses, and ability to deliver AEC education online. To determine differences between MSI and non-MSI respondents, the over 400 responses from the survey were compared with the 800 institutions classified as MSI. Quantitative analyses were performed on multiple choice questions, and qualitative analyses were performed on open-ended questions to identify the top three education concerns. Research previously determined concerns for delivering all online courses, like a lack of faculty-peer interaction and peer-to-peer interaction, and structural university-level concerns, but not from the MSI perspective which is required.

Keyphrases: aec education, minority participation in construction, minority serving institutions, msi faculty expertise

In: Tom Leathem, Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud (editors). Proceedings of 60th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference, vol 5, pages 220-228.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/Hb3g
	https://doi.org/10.29007/xbcq

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ASC2024:Structural_Concerns_Minority_Serving,
  author    = {Rachel Mosier and Tulio Sulbaran and Sandeep Langar and Sanjeev Adhikari},
  title     = {Structural Concerns in Minority Serving Institutions Delivering Online Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Education},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 60th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference},
  editor    = {Tom Leathem and Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Built Environment},
  volume    = {5},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2632-881X},
  url       = {/publications/paper/Hb3g},
  doi       = {10.29007/xbcq},
  pages     = {220-228},
  year      = {2024}}

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