NSF Scholars Program

跨学科(99)-加州州立大学萨克拉门托分校(CSU)NSF学者计划的首要目标是让更多拥有工程和计算机科学学位的合格学生毕业，如果没有额外的财政资源和其他支持结构，他们可能无法毕业并进入高科技领域。这一目标特别确定了传统上在欧洲共同体中代表性不足的群体。该计划每学期向工程与计算机科学学院的低收入学生提供至少30个奖学金，以支付他们全日制学杂费的全部费用。该计划的目标是提供一个全面的学生支持模式，包括指导、指导、同伴网络、经济援助和专业发展，以确保学生在学业上取得成功，留住学生，缩短毕业时间，并在获得学位后在工程和计算机科学领域获得永久的职业机会。智力优势CSU工程与计算机科学学院(ECS)在2000年秋季被列入国家科学基金会颁发的第一轮CSEMS奖项，并获准延长两年。到目前为止，已有112名学生获得了足以支付全部学杂费的奖学金。为NSF学者提供的仔细的遴选过程、咨询和学术支持产生了非常高的保留率。只有5%的人因未能达到学术指导方针而离开了该项目，导致在3年半的时间里，留校率超过了90%，令人印象深刻。自1999年以来，《美国新闻与世界报道》一直将该学院列为55所顶尖工程学院之一。设在欧洲经济合作学院的台地工程课程(MEP)在成功招收、教育和毕业人数不足的学生方面有着出色的记录。环保局局长马德琳·菲什在1999年被评为年度局长，并在1990年被评为全国杰出的环保局局长。NSF学者计划的结构是基于极其有效的MEP/项目成功模式(毕业率为87.5%)，该模式实施了经济援助和学生支持服务相结合的全面计划。布罗德影响根据NACME研究通讯，1990年8月，第1卷，第2期，根据NACME研究通讯，NSF学者计划与CSU的MEP计划相结合，后者在代表不足的少数族裔工程师的毕业方面被列为全国前50名。在以前的CSEMS奖项资助的112名学生中，63%已经毕业，70名(63%)来自种族代表性不足的群体(非洲裔美国人、奇卡诺拉丁裔或美洲原住民)，此外，34名(30%)是女性。NSF学者计划的好处是多层次的，并与当今社会的需求直接相关。首先，有经济需求的有才华的学生，主要来自传统上在工程学和计算机科学领域代表性较低的群体，正在通过严格的学术计划得到有效的帮助，使他们能够及时毕业--这将彻底改变这些学生的生活。此外，高科技行业迫切需要高质量的员工，从这一群体中招聘学生不仅满足了他们的技术需求，也有助于使他们的劳动力多样化。

Interdisciplinary (99)-The overriding goal of the NSF Scholars Program at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) is to graduate significantly more well qualified students with degrees in Engineering and Computer Science, who may not make it to graduation and into a high technology field without additional financial resources and other support structures. This goal especially identifies groups traditionally underrepresented in ECS. The program is providing a minimum of 30 scholarships per semester to low-income students in the College of Engineering and Computer Science to pay the complete cost of their full-time tuition and fees. The objective of the Program is to provide a holistic model of student support, including guidance, mentoring, peer networking, financial assistance, and professional development to ensure the students' academic success, retention, shortened time to graduation, and permanent career opportunities in engineering and computer science after degree. Intellectual MeritThe College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at CSUS was included in the first round of NSF awards for CSEMS in the Fall of 2000, and was granted an extension for another two years. To date, 112 students have received scholarships sufficient to completely pay tuition and fees. The careful selection process, counseling, and academic support provided to the NSF Scholars produced a very high retention rate. Only 5% left the program due to failure to meet academic guidelines, resulting in an impressive over 90% retention rate over the 3-1/2 year period. Since 1999, the U.S. News and World Report has ranked the College within the top 55 colleges of engineering. The MESA Engineering Program (MEP), housed in the College of ECS, has an outstanding track record of successfully recruiting, educating, and graduating underrepresented students. Madeleine Fish, Director of MEP, was recognized in 1999 as Director of the Year and in 1990 as the Outstanding MEP Director in the Nation. The structure of the NSF Scholars Program is based on the extremely effective MEP/Project Success model (87.5% graduation rate) which implements a comprehensive plan of financial assistance combined with student support services.Broader ImpactsThe NSF Scholars Program is coupled with the MEP program at CSUS that is ranked as one of the top 50 in the nation in the graduation of underrepresented minority engineers, according to the NACME Research Letter, Vol. 1, No. 2, August 1990. Out of the total 112 students funded by the prior CSEMS award, 63% have already graduated and 70 (63%) were from ethnically underrepresented groups (African-American, Chicano-Latino, or Native American), in addition, 34 (30%) were women. The benefits of the NSF Scholars program are multi-layered and directly relevant to the needs of society today. First, talented students with economic need, and largely from groups traditionally underrepresented in engineering and computer science, are being effectively assisted through a rigorous academic program toward a timely graduation - which radically changes these students' lives forever. Further, the high technology industry is desperate for quality employees, and hiring students from this population is not only filling their technical needs, but it is also helping to diversify their workforce.