A CSEMS Program in Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics for Transfer Students Linking Two-year Colleges with a Four-year University

该项目通过奖学金为30名有学术天赋、有经济需求的学生提供教育机会，以促进全日制入学和学士学位水平的取得。该计划与该地区的两年制学院(其中一所是HBCU)建立了独特的合作伙伴关系，为符合条件的计算机科学、数学和工程专业的学生创建招生渠道，这些学生a)寻求吸引更多的学生进入这些领域，b)让两年制院校的合格学生意识到CSEMS支持在UAB完成三个学科之一的四年制学士学位。该项目的智力优势在于，UAB与两所两年制学院建立了独特的合作伙伴关系，以吸引更多符合条件的学生进入这三个学科，并提高了这三个项目所提供的教育质量。这项计划的更广泛影响是，该计划能够吸引一批代表性不足的学生(少数族裔和女性，由于伯明翰及其周围的人口结构和该计划的设计)进入这三个学科，并为他们提供资金支持和基础设施，以确保他们成功获得学士学位。

This project provides educational opportunities to 30 academically talented students with demonstrated financial need through scholarships that promote full-time enrollment and degree achievement at the baccalaureate level. The program uniquely partners with two two-year colleges in the area (one a HBCU) to create a recruitment pipeline for qualifying computer science, mathematics, and engineering students that are a) seeking to attract additional students into these fields, and b) make qualifying students at the two-year institutions aware of CSEMS support for completing a four-year baccalaureate degree at UAB in one of the three disciplines. The intellectual merit of this program is the unique partnership between UAB and two two-year colleges to attract additional qualifying students into the three disciplines, and in the quality of the education offered by the three programs. The broader impact of this program is the ability of the program to attract a cohort of underrepresented students (minorities and women, due to the demographics in and around Birmingham and also the design of the program) into the three disciplines, and to provide them with financial support and an infrastructure that ensures their success in earning a baccalaureate degree.