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20所社区学院和32名石溪大学学生提供奖学金和支持计划，这些学生在这些机构中主修cems学科。该项目的目标是显著增加CSEM专业的副学士学位和学士学位的生产，并帮助长岛地区满足对高科技和工程员工的迫切需求。这些目标是通过在领导和合作机构提供全面的一系列支持服务来实现的，包括辅导、指导、实习和职业意识活动。该项目通过外展，将石溪大学现有的大一和大二学生学术成功和研究开发技能研讨会带到社区学院。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。该项目为在所有合作院校注册的一年级学生提供奖学金支持，并为从cems社区学院项目转到石溪大学四年制cems项目的学生提供无缝过渡支持。学生是通过竞争的申请程序从每个合作院校的经济困难学生中挑选出来的。在这个群体中，重点是代表性不足的少数民族、女性、返校学生、转学学生和残疾学生。每所院校的代表委员会每年举行一次会议，选拔学生；每所学校的招生办公室、财政援助办公室和工程办公室都参与推广和招募学生。这个项目的一个独特之处在于，它为目前在长岛工程和高科技公司工作的毕业生提供了一个校友指导计划。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.