Resources In support of Excellence (RISE): A USF/NSF Computer Science, Engineering, & Mathematics Scholarship Program

卓越的资源支持（上升）利用国家科学基金会的奖学金资金结合积极的招聘和保留计划和其他支持，以显着增加南佛罗里达大学的有才华的低收入，代表性不足，第一代，成人和转学生在工程，计算机科学和数学的招生。RISE计划超越了传统的学生奖学金计划，通过实施计划和支持，重点关注学生的发展需求，因为他们通过theirCSEMS学位准备计划以及他们的职业和专业发展培训计划取得进展。因此，USF/NSF RISE计划招募并选择了一批29名低收入的有才华的本科生，其中也包括少数民族和妇女，为他们提供密集的支持和指导，确保在CSEMS学科的成功。作为这一目标的一部分，从CSEMS学科的导师干部被选为学科为基础的辅导员工作。由高科技公司，USF管理人员和教师组成的咨询委员会，以及学区监督项目RISE的所有计划和管理需求。采用多方面的方法吸引来自低收入和代表性不足群体的不同学生骨干。这包括积极招募进入一年级的学生，以针对高水平的学生在他们的计划在CSEMS为基础的学科的最后2年。智力优势：最近的研究表明，一些关键的支持问题的重要性，使我们的目标群体的差异。这些包括指导，财政支持，实习和支持性环境。考虑到目标人群，对此类支持的投资有助于学生实现某些里程碑，这些里程碑通常是他们自己无法实现的，包括成功完成学士学位，并成为CSEMS劳动力的贡献者。更广泛的影响：在全球知识经济中，对科学和技术教育人力资源的投资是社会和经济福祉的重要基础。代表性不足的群体，包括贫困学生跨越种族线，少数民族和妇女是严重不足的那些持有终端学位的CSEMS劳动力和教授的一部分。通过招募和准备学生的这一干部追求和获得本科学位CSEMS学科，并鼓励他们考虑在这些领域的职业生涯，以及暴露他们在CSEMS研究生教育，我们正在帮助建立我们的国家迫切需要维持其科学，技术和工程基础设施的能力。

Resources In Support of Excellence (RISE) utilizes National Science Foundation's scholarship funds in conjunction with aggressive recruitment and retention programs and other supports to significantly increase the University of South Florida's enrollment of talented low income, underrepresented, first generation, adult, and transfer students in engineering, computer science, and mathematics. The RISE program exceeds the offerings of the traditional student scholarship programs by implementing programs and supports that focus on students' developmental needs as they progress through theirCSEMS degree preparation programs as well as their career and professional development training programs. Thus, the USF/NSF RISE Program recruits and selects a cohort of 29 low-income talented undergraduate students that also includes ethnic minorities and women, for the purpose of providing them with intensive supports and mentorship that ensures success in the CSEMS disciplines. As part of this goal, a cadre of mentors from CSEMS disciplines are selected to work as discipline based counselors. An Advisory Board consisting of high tech companies, USF administrators and faculty, and the school district oversees all programmatic and management needs of project RISE. A multi-faceted approach is used to attract different cadres of students from low-income and under represented groups. This includes aggressively recruiting entering first year students to targeting upper level students during the last 2 years of their program in CSEMS based disciplines. INTELLECTUAL MERIT: Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of some key support issues that make a difference for our target group. Those include mentorship, financial supports, internships, and a supportive environment. Given the target population, investments in such supports help students achieve certain milestones that ordinarily they would not have achieved on their own, including successful completion of baccalaureate degrees, and becoming contributing members of the CSEMS workforce.BROADER IMPACT: Investments in human resources for science and technology education are essential underpinnings for social and economic well being in a global, knowledge-based economy. Underrepresented groups, including impoverished students across ethnic lines, ethnic minorities, and women are sorely underrepresented among those holding terminal degrees as part of CSEMS workforce and the professorate. By recruiting and preparing this cadre of students to pursue and obtain undergraduate degrees in CSEMS disciplines and by encouraging them to consider professional careers in those areas as well exposing them to graduate education in CSEMS, we are helping to build the capacity that our nation sorely needs to sustain its science, technology, and engineering infrastructures.