NSBE Strategic Articulation - Draft Discussion Purposes Only

NSBE Strategic Articulation - Draft Discussion Purposes Only

STRATEGIC ARTICULATION MAP nsbe.org

OUR PURPOSE // What we will do to get there TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF 2021-2024 STRATEGIC PLAN

CULTURALLY RESPONSIBLE BLACK ENGINEERS

WHO

POSITIVELY IMPACT THE COMMUNITY

EXCEL ACADEMICALLY

SUCCEED PROFESSIONALLY

VISION // What we want to see

WE ENVISION A WORLD IN WHICH ENGINEERING IS A MAINSTREAM WORD IN HOMES AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, AND ALL BLACK STUDENTS CAN ENVISION THEMSELVES AS ENGINEERS.

IN THIS WORLD, BLACKS EXCEED PARITY IN

ENTERING ENGINEERING FIELDS

EARNING DEGREES

SUCCEEDING PROFESSIONALLY

STRATEGIC IDENTITY Summary from SPTF and NEB meetings to clarify NSBE’s identity and its impact

IDENTITY / NSBE’S WHO!!

IMPACT / NSBE’S DO!

• Normalize black excellence; • Provide Early academic and career exposure • Keep and Grow our Sisterhood and brotherhood • Encourage members and stakeholders to appreciate and support Black identity

SAFE HAVEN

• Present Black engineers as world-class problem solvers; • Provide local Chapters, which are the Arena of Action where the DO happens • Gives majority orgs access to black talent • Common themes: Visibility, validation, and reinforcement

BEACON OF HOPE as a PREMIER ORGANIZATION for/of Black engineers

• Helps People of Color Engineers and STEM talent get through College - a critical juncture on the Community to Career Lifecycle • Community service

BRIDGE from community to college to workplace/career for BLACK ENGINEERS

• Conventions are critical • Metrics are critical, like new convention attendees • In terms of member outreach “Go to convention” is important messaging

CAREER ADVANCEMENT PLATFORM that provides academic and professional support

IDENTITY / NSBE’S WHO!!

IMPACT / NSBE’S DO!

• A special, unique place where Black engineers - and by extension other People of Color talent - do not have to feel like unicorns - unusual or non-normative.

COMMUNITY

• NSBE taking a more activist stance regarding members’ well-being at work • Community/family to combat feelings of isolation and tokenization • NSBE has the power to “raise the question” about climate and cultural conditions within the Engineering Space that have the potential to do harm to Black or Diverse Engineers

REPRESENTATIVE of and potentially ACTIVIST for the larger African American Engineering community and its special concerns.

IN SUMMARY • IMPACT/DO! - Raise awareness of STEM in K12. Incubate, connect, engage, equip, mentor, support in a safe environment that produces leaders and creates opportunity. • NICHE/HOOD - Build and nurture a ‘regionized’ Collegiate base around which all other stakeholders revolve.

At its core: NSBE is a like-minded yet diverse group of engineers committed to supporting and increasing Blacks/Diverse talent in engineering.

STRATEGIC DIRECTION: THE NSBE JOURNEY

CEO Media networks STEM 10,000 by 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Pulitzer Prize

global tech firms

Internationally Recognized Corporate Aliate as Partners

Corporate Career Entrepreneurship Academia

Black faculty

Global presence

Our Vision Snapshots

Graduate with a 3.20 GPA or better

NSBE featured

Venture capital and technology companies

University Partners

Communities of color Prestigious awards such as Kennedy Honors or Black Girls Rock

Being focused in STEM and STEAM

Sitting on boards Visible black professors

Get into a college or University STEM/Engineering Program

Interest in STEM Engineering Computer Science

ON YOUR MARK! Giving to Community

READY! PRE-COLLEGIATE ENGAGEMENT: Helping NSBE Pre-Collegiate Be READY & RISE!

Pre-Collegiate students from K to successful high school graduates represents NSBE future’s promise and supply of potential collegiate students. However, systematically exposing, engaging and preparing these students across the early developmental and academic life span takes a variety of distinct engagement, academic/learning and enrichment strategies and tactics, best delivered by prepared, well-trained and energetic NSBE student and professional member- volunteers. The Pre-Collegiate Strategic Direction workgroup especially acknowledged the importance of segmenting this broad age-early interest continuum

into 4 core age/grade oriented groups - K-Grade 2, Grade 3rd-5th (SEEK Students) and Grades 6th-8th Grade (NSBE Jr.) and finally a high school grouping Grades 9th – 12th (NSBE Jr. Chapters and early Collegiate Chapter partner). Each group would receive di¢erent exposures, engagements, level of mentorship/tutoring or other supports. The end-game is to use this period to create deep academic readiness and career interest in Engineering academic programs and/or STEM careers.

Program Activity & Description

Age/Grade Segment

Member / Stakeholder Engagement

Vehicle for Implementation

• Chapter Leadership • Chapter members, especially those in gateway courses in their major • Graduate students (as facilitators) • Upperclassmen (as facilitators) • Multicultural Program Administrator (MEP) (help structure group sessions, and perhaps compensate facilitators, recruiting facilitators, provide, orientation, training, etc.) • Chapter Leadership • Chapter members • Mentor other schools to grow camps • Churches • Areas with high UR students • Area growth focus vs national growth focus • Grow stakeholders via Universities, industry, etc. • Growth with other URM from 50K Partners – Collective impact.

Informal Program; Not capturing member, not members of NSBE

Kindergarten – 2nd Grade

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