Recruiting, Retaining, and Graduating Appalachian and Minority Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Majors ( AMSTEMM)

阿巴拉契亚肯塔基大学和少数民族科学、技术、工程和数学专业(UK AMSTEMM)项目通过一系列相关活动招聘、保留和毕业STEM专业的学生。招聘阶段包括提供和协调高中数学支持、校园暑期科学夏令营、访问学校、教师支持、家长计划和周六的活动，如职业咨询。英国AMSTEMM为参与导师研究体验和担任同行导师提供奖学金，以使学生能够负担得起英国的费用。有一个协调一致的努力，以说服一年级的学生，尤其是女性，注册了微积分预科课程的特殊部分，将他们的专业选择转向STEM学科。保留阶段包括专注的专业建议；教师指导；密集的暑期数学课程；为微积分预科学生增加对数学Excel项目的支持；特别的一年级基于地点的发现研讨会；指导研究经验；同行指导计划；以及每两周一次的研究座谈会。毕业阶段旨在确保专业在攻读学位方面有规律的进步，并“按时”毕业，包括参加每两周一次的研究座谈会；专业建议；同行指导；指导研究经验；以及各种STEM学科的基于地点的课程-这些课程有趣、具有挑战性，与学生的生活和家庭社区相关。这些创新技术的成功，如让家长广泛参与大学前的招生和定向；提供密集的大学前数学测试、咨询和课程；以及提供基于地点的发现研讨会、充实研讨会和STEM课程，为其他努力增加STEM入学人数提供了一个模式。

The University of Kentucky Appalachian and Minority Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Majors (UK AMSTEMM) program recruits, retains, and graduates STEM majors through a number of related activities. The recruitment phase includes providing and coordinating high school mathematics support, summer science camps on-campus, visits to schools, teacher support, programs for parents, and Saturday events, such as career advising. UK AMSTEMM provides fellowships for participating in mentored research experiences and serving as peer mentors, to allow students to afford UK. There is a concerted effort to persuade first-year students, especially women, enrolled in special sections of pre-calculus courses to redirect their choices of majors to STEM disciplines. The retention phase includes dedicated professional advising; faculty mentoring; intensive summer mathematics courses; increased support for the Math Excel program for pre-calculus students; special first year, place-based, Discovery Seminars; mentored research experiences; a peer mentoring program; and bi-weekly research colloquia. The graduation phase, intended to ensure that majors make regular progress toward their degrees and graduate "on time," includes participation in biweekly research colloquia; professional advising; peer mentoring; mentored research experiences; and place-based courses in the various STEM disciplines - courses that are interesting, challenging, and relevant to the students' lives and home communities. The success of such innovative techniques as involving parents extensively in pre-college recruiting and orientation; offering intensive pre-college mathematics testing, counseling, and courses; and providing place-based Discovery Seminars, enrichment seminars, and STEM courses provides a model for other efforts to increase STEM enrollments.