Student Resources @ MTU

This list includes the resources that the students who created this website think are useful for students at Tech.

Learning Centers (www.admin.mtu.edu/dos/learningctrs.htm)

MTU Writing Center (www.hu.mtu.edu/wc)

Multi-Ethnic Programs (http://outreach.mtu.edu/)

Advisors (www.mtu.edu/studenthandbook/advisors.html)

Tech Talk (http://www.mtu.edu/studenthandbook/talk.html)
A list of commonly used terms at MTU.

Student Organizations (www.sos.mtu.edu)

Counseling Services (www.counseling.mtu.edu)

ExSEL Program (http://outreach.mtu.edu/exsel/)

 

Faculty Resources

This list includes resources (websites and recommended readings) that faculty might find useful for understanding issues of identity negotiation within education. It is presented as a starting point for teachers, advisors, and learning coaches to explore some of the issues raised by the students' stories.

"Thin Ice: 'Stereotype Threat' and Black College Students"
An article by Claude Steele

When Race Breaks Out: Conversations about Race and Racism in College Classrooms
When Race Breaks Out by Helen Fox is a guide for instructors who want to promote
more honest and informed conversations about race and racism.

A description of Uri Treisman's model of teaching
This is a model for creating learning programs in which minority students excel.

Teaching Tolerance
A web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Mavin Foundation
A site that explores redefining diversity through a better understanding of multiracial identities.

The Shape of The River
A book by William G. Bowen and Derek Bok in which they attempt to provide empirical evidence about the effects of racial preferences in higher education. One reviewer writes, "What they find is certainly provocative--and if, in the end, Bowen and Bok still haven't answered the affirmative-action conundrum, they've taken a valuable first
step toward providing some of the necessary facts for an intelligent discussion of the issue."

A site with strategies and resources for teaching underrepresented students
This is site focused on California, but it has strategies and resources useful for teaching underrepresented students.

American Indian Science and Engineering Society

Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science

National Society of Black Engineers