ASEE Public Policy Statements

ASEE Actions: Race-Conscious Admissions

ASEE suggests actions in response to the Supreme Court decision on race-conscious admissions

ASEE Response: Race-Conscious Admissions

ASEE Responds to today’s Supreme Court Ruling on Race-Conscious Admissions.

ASEE DEI Statement

ASEE joins peer societies on a joint DEI statement: On behalf of the national engineering professional societies signed below, we are writing to express our views about pending state legislation targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion.  We have concerns about proposals impacting our on-campus chapter members and engineering faculty and staff supporting students pursuing careers in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

ASEE Affirmative Action Statement

Since our nation's birth in 1776, we have made halting progress in pursuing "equality for all." From emancipation and adoption of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment in the late 1800s to the civil rights movement in the 1960s and Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action this millennia, our nation has openly and caustically struggled to reconcile its heterogeneity with its founding principle to "form a more perfect Union."

ASEE Board Statement on Instruction on Race, Gender, and Sexuality Topics in Engineering Courses

ASEE Statement on White House Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping

ASEE Statement on Planned Change to Authorized Duration of Stay for F-1 Visa Holders

American innovation is the envy of the world in large part because American research universities, as engines of that innovation, attract the best and brightest engineering students the world has to offer.

ASEE Statement on Prevention of Nonimmigrant Students from Taking Online-Only Coursework

The changes announced on July 6, 2020, by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may have a significant negative impact on many ASEE individual and institutional members, most notably colleges of engineering and engineering technology. 

Actions ASEE is Taking in Support of Black Lives Matter

ASEE Statement on Professional Licensure of Engineering Technology Program Graduates

ASEE strongly supports the position that baccalaureate graduates from ETAC/ABET accredited Engineering Technology programs are fully capable of protecting the health, safety, and welfare of the public and should, therefore, be eligible, without additional requirements, to become Licensed Professional Engineers.