Tufts-CSEMS Scholars Program

塔夫茨大学-CSEMS学者计划

• 批准号: 0220651
• 负责人: Diane Souvaine
• 金额: $ 38.5万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-15 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0220651&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Tufts; CSEMS; Scholars; Program

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.

塔夫特CSEMS计划的目标是改善有经济需求的学生的招生、留住和毕业情况，特别是攻读计算机科学、工程和数学专业的女性学生和代表性不足的少数族裔学生。每年将向一批进入塔夫茨大学的新生和社区大学转校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。四个奖学金将分配给从社区大学转学的学生。该计划还旨在消除学生工作的必要性，使他们有更多的时间专注于学业。然而，与这段额外的学习时间同样重要的是，经验表明，有经济需求的学生在大学取得成功还面临着其他几个障碍。例如，他们的父母不太可能毕业于四年制大学，因此，他们对学术环境的许多期望和规则不太熟悉。缺乏有过学业成功经历的哥哥姐姐或朋友等榜样，也剥夺了他们规划自己在大学里面临的期望的机会。再加上计算机科学、工程和数学课程对他们提出的实质性要求，这些学生可能会变得灰心丧气，最终会寻找其他领域，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集成的支持服务，既可以监控他们的进步，也可以在出现问题时解决他们的学术和非学术问题。通过这样做，学生将获得在学业上取得成功的最大机会。该计划为他们提供与CSEMS特别指定的教师顾问、同行指导、研究生导师的密切联系，加快获得学术和其他大学支持服务的机会，并举办一系列研讨会，将教师、研究生和支持人员聚集在一起，形成CSEMS学者在项目两年中的综合体验。