1. Assistant to the Senior Executive Vice President
Minority Students:
Reducing the Gaps & Moving Towards Excellence
Pre-Board Meetings of The Academic
Committee
June 3, 2016
Yosef Jabareen
Assistant to the Senior Executive Vice President
for Minority Affairs

2. Achievements

3. Drop-out Rate of Arab Students by Years (%)

4. Undergraduate Arab students at the Technion

5. Undergraduate Arab students at the Technion (%)

6. Arab Students by Gender (%)

7. New Female Students at the Technion in 2015-16

8. Arab Students by Selected Faculty: Percentage of Accepted (%)
2005
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015 % N
Electric Engineering
5.7
13.2 22
19.3
22.2 20 60
Civil Engineering
34.0
26.6
28.6
23.6
23.3 37 91
Computer Science
9.7
18.1
29.4
27.6
26.3 25 59
Biotechnology & Food
11.0
20.7
30.5
25.4
32.2 24 14
Faculty of Medicine
46.0
44.3
29.7
37.1
50.8 49 90
Biology
32.0 45
69.6
57.4
63.6 63 27

9. Selected Intervention Programs
Pre-Academic Preparatory Studies
Academic and Social Tutoring
Mirroring the Technion website in Arabic
Translating material for new students
Workshops with local and international hi-tech companies
Collective Impact

10. The Excellence Program
Objectives:
Increase minority students attendance in graduate studies
Exposure minority students to the academic life
Improve academic and soft skills
Activities:
Exploring the academic world: Conferences; lab; etc..
Academic mentoring
Soft skills courses: Empowerment, presentation, etc.
Exploring the business world: Courses, internships; summer jobs etc.
Networking

11. Gaps

12. Minority Academic Achievements
Our study among Arab and Jewish students at the Technion founds significant associations between
Academic Achievements
and
Bagrut
Psychometric
Age
Gender
Most Significant Factors
Mathematics
Preliminary studies
Academic Achievements
Bagrut
Gender
Mathematics 4 vs. 5 units
Psychometric
Age
Preliminary studies

13. Distribution of First Year students by Ethnicity

14. From Exclusionary to Inclusionary Campus

15. Employment Fair Day at the Technion 2016
“Isolation” at Campus

16. “Segregation” at Campus
Employment Fair Day at the Technion 2016
“Segregation” at Campus

17. Inclusionary Policies
Inclusionary Campus
The First in Israel
Mixed Housing
Shared Activities
Student helps Student
Diverse Administration
AcknowledgMinority Holidays
Acknowledge Minority Language

18. Strategy for the Next Five Years
Academic
Social
Employment
Excellence
Inclusion
Career
Collective Impact
VATAT
Civil Society