Cankdeska Cikana STEM Planning Project

这一规划工作的重点不仅是评估STEM课程，还包括制定专门针对STEM课程的战略计划。它将包括审查所需的扩展，以最大限度地增加学生的机会，并增加在当前的瓶颈课程的成功。此外，学院需要确定额外的课程以及必要的物质和人力资源。该项目的长期影响预计将在三个方面带来显著增长：STEM课程的课程完成、毕业和转到四年制学校。学院的主要重点将是制定一项强调纳入达科他州文化的战略计划。此外，该学院历来都开发了满足学生需求的课程。这一先前的经验将应用于STEM工作，并包括从其他部落学院STEM项目审查中获得的额外材料。

The focus of this planning effort is not only the assessment of STEM offerings,but also, the development of a strategic plan specific to the STEM courses. It willinclude the examination of expansions needed to maximize student opportunity andincrease success in current bottleneck courses. Further, the college needs to identifyadditional course offerings and physical and human resource necessary to add to those.The long term impact of this project is expected to provide significant increases inthree areas: course completions in the STEM courses; graduations; and transfers to fouryear schools.The college's major focus will be on the development of a strategic plan whichemphasizes the inclusion of the Dakota culture. Further, the college has historicallydeveloped programs which are responsive to the needs of students. This prior experiencewill be applied to the STEM effort with additional materials included from reviews ofother Tribal college STEM programs.