Making the Connection: Linking Stony Brook University and Community Colleges via CSEMS

石溪大学与拿骚和萨福克县社区学院合作，每年为这些机构CSEMS专业的20名社区学院和32名石溪学生提供奖学金和支持计划。该项目的目标是显著提高CSEM专业的副学士学位产量，并帮助长岛地区满足对高科技和工程技术员工的迫切需求。通过在牵头机构和合作伙伴机构提供一系列全面的支持服务，包括辅导、指导、实习和职业意识活动，实现了这些目标。该项目正在通过外展，将石溪现有的一年级和二年级的学术成功和研究开发技能研讨会带到社区大学。鼓励学生申请通过与长岛公司和布鲁克海文国家实验室的现有关系提供的实习机会。该计划为所有合作院校选定的一年级学生提供奖学金支持，并为从CSEMS社区大学项目过渡到石溪大学四年制CSEMS项目的学生提供无缝过渡的支持。学生是通过竞争性申请程序从每个伙伴机构的经济困难学生池中挑选出来的。在这一群体中，重点是代表人数不足的少数族裔、妇女、返乡学生、转学学生和残疾学生。每个机构的代表每年都会开会挑选学生；每个机构的招生、经济援助和工程办公室都参与促进和招收学生参加该项目。该项目的一个独特方面是校友指导计划，该计划的毕业生目前受雇于长岛的工程和高科技公司。该项目包括一个详细的评估计划，评估CSEM奖学金在吸引和留住弱势学生方面的有效性。

Stony Brook University, in partnership with Nassau and Suffolk County Community Colleges is providing a scholarship and support program for 20 community college and 32 Stony Brook students each year who are majoring in CSEMS disciplines at these institutions. The goals of this project are to significantly increase the associate and bachelor degree production in CSEM majors and to help the Long Island Region meet a critical need for high technology and engineering employees. These goals are met by providing a comprehensive series of support services at both the lead and partner institutions that include tutoring, mentoring, internships, and career awareness activities. The project is bringing, through outreach, Stony Brook's existing freshman and sophomore seminars in academic success and research development skills to the community colleges. Students are encouraged to apply for internships provided through preexisting relationships with Long Island companies and Brookhaven National Laboratory. The program provides scholarship support for selected students enrolled as first-year students in all partner institutions, as well providing support for a seamless transition to students transferring from the CSEMS community college programs to Stony Brook's four-year CSEMS programs. Students are selected through a competitive application process from the pools of economically disadvantaged students at each of the partner institutions. From within this pool, emphasis is given to underrepresented minorities, women, returning, transfer, and disabled students. A committee of representatives from each institution meets annually to select students; the offices of admissions, financial aid, and engineering at each institution share in promoting and recruiting students to the program. A unique aspect of this project is an Alumni Mentoring program with graduates who are currently employed in engineering and high tech companies on Long Island. The project includes a detailed assessment program that evaluates the effectiveness of the CSEM scholarships at attracting and retaining disadvantaged students.