STEM Pioneer Project

在潮水社区学院女子中心的监督下，先锋项目正在展示，有可能辍学的聪明的社区大学女性可以在三年内毕业，获得A·S的科学、技术、工程和数学学位，为转到工商管理硕士项目做准备。该项目的目标包括：1.坚持到毕业。115名原本无法毕业于STEM专业的女性毕业了。2.保留女性。女学生在STEM班级的保留率从目前的74%上升到85%。3.招聘。在STEM学科注册的女性人数从目前的40%上升到59%，她们在大学人口中所占的比例。4.学业和事业成功。长期跟踪显示，60%的参与者坚持在转学学院并进入他们选择的职业。项目参与者正在接受测试，以确保他们处于符合其兴趣和能力的最佳计划中。他们既接受学术咨询，也接受干预咨询。所有学员均可获得训练有素的辅导员和辅导员。参与者定期在一个支持小组中会面，以获得职业指导和调动援助。STEM教师参加年度研讨会，接受关于如何创建一个对女性友好的课堂的培训，并选择女性本质上感兴趣的材料；教师还得到帮助，以改善他们的学术建议。在最后一个学期，学生们参加了一门关于女性工作的体验式顶峰课程，在这门课程中，他们经常会跟着所在领域的专业人士学习。智力价值：这个项目解决了一个很少研究的问题，即希望进入STEM职业的聪明的、有风险的社区大学女性的毕业率很低。该项目建立在这所大型城市社区学院正在进行的特别援助努力的基础上。要采用的策略包括那些在该学院和其他学院的其他学生中取得成功的策略，但这些策略以一种新的形式结合起来，并为最后一个学期的学生增加了一门新的动手课程。每年都会举行由一名经验丰富的培训师举办的教师研讨会，该培训师来自一家为女性温暖寒冷教室的机构，直到所有全职STEM教师都得到培训。更广泛的影响：通过创建一个让聪明、高危的社区大学女性受益的示范项目，目标不仅是为学院的女性成功改善环境，而且还为许多非传统的大学女性创造材料和可复制的模式，为她们在科学、数学、工程和技术方面的成功铺平道路，她们进入STEM职业的唯一途径是通过社区学院这一进入高等教育的第一线。

Under the supervision of the Tidewater Community College Women's Center, the Pioneer Project is demonstrating that bright, community college women at risk of dropping out of college can graduate within three years with A. S degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) prepared for transfer to B. S. programs. The objectives of the project include: 1. Persistence to graduation. 115 women, who would not have been able to graduate in STEM majors, graduate. 2. Retention of women. Retention of women students in STEM classes rises from the present level of 74% to 85%. 3. Recruitment. The number of women enrolled in STEM disciplines rises from current levels of 40% to 59%, their proportion of the college population. 4. Academic and career success. Long-term tracking shows that 60% of participants are persisting at the transfer college and entering their chosen profession. Project participants are being tested to assure that they are in the best program for their interests and abilities. They receive both academic advising and intervention counseling. Trained supplementary instruction leaders as well as mentors are available to all participants. Participants meet regularly in a support group for career guidance and transfer assistance. STEM faculty attend annual workshops to receive training in how to create a female-friendly classroom and select materials intrinsically interesting to women; faculty are also be helped to improve their academic advising. During their final semester, students take an experiential capstone course in women's work in which they regularly shadow a professional in their field. Intellectual Merit: This project addresses a seldom-studied problem which is low graduation rates for bright, at risk, community college women who wish to enter STEM professions. The project builds on special assistance efforts taking place at this large, urban community college. Strategies to be employed include those which have succeeded with other populations at this college and at other colleges, but which are combined in a new form and with the addition of a newly created hands-on course for students in their last semester. Faculty workshops by an experienced trainer from an institution that has warmed its chilly classrooms for women are being carried out each year until all full-time STEM faculty are trained. Broader Impacts: By creating a model program to benefit smart, at-risk community college women, the goals are to not only improve the environment for the college's women to succeed, but also to create materials and a replicable model that would pave the way to success in science, math, engineering, and technology for the many non-traditional college women whose only avenue to STEM professions is through the first line of access to higher education, the community college.