At a Glance: Best Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Students in CTE Programs that are Nontraditional for their Genders
- Promote flexible scheduling of classes and meetings with advisors with weekend and evening availability
- Facilitate collaboration between two-year and four year institutions
- Provide mentoring programs to school aged children that will help overcome barriers of gender discrimination and inspire individuals from a young age. Start early!
- Showcase role-models and their success stories, make them visible and allow these role-models to act as support systems to decrease feelings of isolation due to gender differences
- Provide financial assistance, tutoring, child care and job placements.
- Provide a straightforward and simple application with good and easy to reach customer service
- Promote the benefits of nontraditional occupations, such as higher wages, economic self-sufficiency, job satisfaction and broader
opportunities. - Provide face to face academic and career counseling.
- Use the media to your advantage in running a recruitment campaign, sending out press releases to local media outlets.
- Place non-traditional opportunities for women in women magazines and vice versa for men.
- Provide orientations, internships, and job shadowing.
- Ensure equal education and training for both male and female students and employees.
- Adopt a proactive approach to incidents of sexual harassment.
- Provide teachers' trainings to address unconscious bias.
- Evaluate the curricula to de-gender contents and address bias.
- Develop recruitment messages that are de-gendered.
- Use social media and information and communication technologies to reach younger and older audience.
- Build partnerships with businesses and community organizations to strengthen outreach.
- Evaluate, evaluate, evaluate! What gets evaluated gets done!