Tufts-CSEMS Scholars Program

塔夫特的CSEMS计划的目标是提高学生的招聘，保留和毕业证明经济需要，特别是妇女，和代表性不足的少数民族，谁追求计算机科学，工程和数学的研究。每年将向一批进入塔夫茨大学的新生和社区大学转学生颁发为期两年的奖学金。该计划将在四年内每年支持28名学生。四项奖学金将分配给从社区大学转学的学生。该计划还旨在减轻学生的工作需要，使他们有更多的时间专注于他们的学术课程。然而，尽管额外的学习时间很重要，经验表明，有经济需求的学生在大学取得成功时也会遇到其他一些障碍。例如，他们的父母不太可能毕业于四年制大学，因此，他们不太熟悉学术环境的许多期望和协议。缺乏榜样，如年长的兄弟姐妹或朋友，谁经历了学术上的成功，也剥夺了他们的机会，规划出他们将在大学面临的期望。再加上计算机科学、工程学和数学对他们提出的大量要求，这些学生可能会变得灰心丧气，最终寻找其他领域，或者完全离开学校。通过早期干预，塔夫茨大学的CSEMS学者项目希望为参与者提供一套综合的支持服务，既能监控他们的进步，又能解决问题，无论是学术还是非学术，都是如此。通过这样做，学生将获得最大的机会在学术上取得成功。该计划为他们提供了一个特别指定的CSEMS教师顾问，同行指导，研究生导师，加速获得学术和其他大学的支持服务，以及一系列的研讨会，汇集了教师，研究生和支持人员，形成CSEMS学者跨两年的综合经验，他们在程序中。

The objective of Tuft's CSEMS program is to improve the recruitment, retention, and graduation of students with demonstrated financial need, especially women, and underrepresented minorities, who pursue studies in computer science, engineering, and mathematics. Two-year scholarships are going to be awarded each year to a cohort of entering freshmen and community college transfers to Tufts. The program is going to support 28 students per year over a four-year period. Four scholarships are going to be allocated to students who transfer from community colleges.The program also aims to relieve students of the necessity to work, so that they have more time to concentrate on their academic program. Yet, as important as this additional study time is, experience indicates that students with demonstrated financial need confront several other obstacles to succeeding at college as well. They are, for example, less likely to have parents who graduated from a four-year college, and are, therefore, less familiar with many of the expectations, and protocols of an academic environment. The absence of role models, such as older siblings or friends, who have experienced academic success, also denies to them opportunities to map out the expectations they will confront in college. Together with the substantial demands that the regimens of computer science, engineering, and mathematics make on them, these students can become discouraged, and eventually seek out other fields, or leave school entirely.Through early intervention, the CSEMS Scholars program at Tufts expects to provide participants with an integrated set of support services that is going to both monitor their progress and address problems, both academic and non-academic, as they occur. By doing so, students are going to be afforded the maximum opportunity to succeed academically. The program offers them close contact with a specially designated CSEMS faculty advisor, peer mentoring, graduate student mentors, accelerated access to academic and other university support services, and a series of seminars that brings together faculty, graduate students, and support staff to form an integrative experience for CSEMS Scholars across the two years they are in the program.