Process-Based Scholarship and Retention Program for Low-Income Students

针对低收入学生的基于流程的奖学金和保留计划

• 批准号: 0094907
• 负责人: James Gregory
• 金额: $ 27万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-01-01 至 2004-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0094907&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Process; Based; Scholarship; Retention; Program

The specific project objectives of the program include: (i) promoting diversity and increase the numbers of minority students enrolling in, and completing degrees in computer science, engineering and mathematics; (ii) expanding the pool of minority talent that have suffered from a long- standing under- utilization for industry, government, and academia (i. e., Ph. D. holders); (iii) improving the educational experiences of students through connections of academic content to the work environment and building new industry partnerships; (iv) increasing enrollment of academically- gifted students from community colleges; (v) encouraging scholarship recipients to pursue advanced degrees; and (vi) providing mentor programs that allow students to devote more time to their degree programs as opposed to working on non- discipline jobs. The goals of the program are being accomplished by: (i) Recruitment; (ii) Academic support to provide participants the tools necessary to succeed; (iii) A retention program, which relies heavily on the positive impact of mentors and academic contracts that include professional development of the scholars; (iv) Building on the existing infrastructure for student and industry support within the University as well as local community colleges; (v) Establishing faculty mentors in every department to provide one- on- one mentoring by experienced faculty and peers; (vi) Requiring the Scholars to participate in research and design projects for presentation at professional meetings and industry- sponsored workshops; (vii) Maintaining records on the Scholars: progress toward degree, research experiences, design projects, resume, career goals, work portfolios, mentoring activities, professional development opportunities, job interviews, graduate school applications, the change in the number of minority students transferring in; and (viii) Initiating an exit interview process to evaluates the effectiveness of scholarship programs. The grant award acts as a catalyst to reinforce other curricula enhancement programs. The scholarship program provides leadership training and experience, and a controlled academic process for low- income students to insure successful graduation and entrance to graduate school when desired. The scholarship program builds on several existing programs that help students achieve academic success.

该计划的具体项目目标包括：（i）促进多样性，增加少数民族学生就读和完成计算机科学、工程和数学学位的人数;（ii）扩大长期以来工业、政府和学术界利用不足的少数民族人才库（i）扩大少数民族人才库。例如，Ph. D.持有人）;（iii）将学术内容与工作环境结合，并与业界建立新的伙伴关系，以改善学生的教育经验;（iv）增加社区学院的学术资优学生人数;（v）鼓励奖学金得主修读高等学位;以及（vi）提供导师计划，让学生投入更多时间攻读学位课程，而不是从事非专业工作。该方案的目标正在通过以下方式实现：㈠征聘; ㈡学术支持，为参与者提供成功所需的工具; ㈢保留方案，该方案在很大程度上依赖导师和学术合同的积极影响，包括学者的专业发展; ㈣在大学和地方社区学院内建立现有的学生和行业支持基础设施;（v）在各学系设立导师，由经验丰富的教员和同侪提供一对一的指导;（vi）要求学者参与研究和设计项目，以便在专业会议和业界赞助的工作坊上发表;（vii）保存学者的记录：学位进度，研究经验，设计项目，简历，职业目标，工作档案，指导活动，专业发展机会，工作面试，研究生院申请，少数族裔学生转学人数的变化;以及（viii）启动离职面谈程序，以评估奖学金方案的有效性。赠款奖作为一种催化剂，以加强其他课程的增强计划。奖学金计划提供领导力培训和经验，以及为低收入家庭学生提供受控的学术过程，以确保成功毕业和在需要时进入研究生院。奖学金计划建立在几个现有的计划，帮助学生取得学术成功。