Vanguard

Through the Engineering Vanguard Program, NACME reaches into communities and schools overlooked by most engineering institutions and finds students with the "right stuff" to become engineers. Looking beyond academic background and performance on standardized tests, we identify the skills that often make the difference between those who run and those who finish the race. 

 

B.E.T.T.A.

The Black Engineering Technology Alumni Association (BETTA) consists of Black NJIT graduates. In January, 1990, BETTA proposed an initiative designed to address the short fall of scientists and engineers in the Black community. The Program's objectives are to recruit ten Black students who are in need of financial and academic support and provide a support system that offers career advisement, mentoring and leadership training.

Through a collaborative effort with the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) the first BETTA grant recipients were admitted into the EOP Summer Academic Enrichment Program in June 1990. This year marks the eighth anniversary of the BETTA grant program.

 

Book Stipends

Some students of the EOP meet the state financial criteria to be considered for additional aid. These students are classified as EOF ("F" meaning Fund) and recieve financial aid in the form of a summer stipend (for the pre-freshman summer experience) and an annual award for books distributed each semester.

The following student services programs have EOP students in their population.

AMP

administered and located within EOP, AMP is a NSF-Funded program to increase the number of African American and Latino SEM (science, engineering and math) graduates in the nation. NJIT is a member of the Philadelphia AMP and EOP has selected those SEM-EOP sophomore, junior and senior students who fit the ethnic and academic criteria and are willing to participate in other program activities (URE-Undergraduate Research Experience, peer-tutoring and mentoring of freshmen, etc.). Participants receive financial and career-related benefits.

 

CAP Program

is designed for women, African American and Latino pre-freshmen year students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. An eligible student may enter the program prior to the freshman year begin to take advantage of the CAP program's career development activities. Those activities include $1,000 scholarships for selected students; a brief residential program called Summer Tech for entering freshmen; a semester-long career development course; major-related work experiences for academic credit; group tutoring, corporate visits and career-oriented workshops and seminars. CAP students interact with faculty, staff and business professionals as they explore their career options.

 

NACME

co-administered with NCE (Newark College of Engineering) and located within EOP, African American and Latino Students, who meet the academic and financial need criteria of NACME, are awarded grants and scholarships from the organization. NACME (the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering) is an organization dedicated to increasing the number of minority students who graduates in engineering.

 

Student Support Services Program

a federally-funded program out of the TRIO programs grouping, SSSP serves students 66% of whom must be first generation, low-income (ethnicity is not, and cannot be, a factor in SSSP). SSSP also considers students with disabilities and limited English proficiency. The program provides academic tutoring, personal counseling, graduate and professional preparation workshops with GRE examination focus and, in cooperation with EOP, a two week Winter Intercession that provides students with additional preparation for sequential courses in the spring semester.