The WREASN Typology of Student Involvement Activities

Abstract

This Research Work in Progress paper presents a typology for categorizing undergraduate extra-curricular activities. We observed that the all of the activities listed on a corpus of student resumes could be fully described by defining two levels of identifiers, the first of which describes the type of activity while the second is a descriptor of the activity. As a proof of concept, the typology was applied to resumes of participants in a program that serves underrepresented students studying engineering at a large public R1 institution. Simple descriptive findings are reported, and potential future applications are discussed.