Rochester STEM Scholars

该项目致力于将坚持申报科学、工程或数学专业的低收入学生人数增加50%，并了解适当水平和形式的奖学金支持在留住STEM学生方面的作用。为此，该项目正在为一年级、二年级和三年级的学生提供大量的奖学金支持，并整合了一些学术、经济和社会支持系统。教师学员还受益于培训和支持，以加强对指导和建议做法的理解，这些做法有助于留住高风险学生在科学领域的留住。该项目预计，这种对教师发展的关注将为低收入家庭的学生带来更友好的学术文化。该项目在机构和国家范围内都产生了更广泛的影响。在当地，该计划制定的指导和咨询结构和文化正在制度化；在全国范围内，该计划以学生和教师为重点的方面的结果正在传播，作为适应和实施其他学院和大学的潜在模式。该项目的智力价值包括重点了解校园和人际、种族和社会经济动态的交叉点，以及它们对STEM研究中留存的影响。这一重点有助于国家理解科学家可以也应该为美国生活的多样性做好准备和反映的方式。

This project is striving to increase the numbers of low-income students who persist to declaration of a science, engineering, or mathematics major by fifty percent, and to gain an understanding of the role of appropriate levels and forms of scholarship support in retention of STEM students. Towards this end the project is providing significant scholarship support to first, second, and third year students, and integrating a number of academic, financial, and social support systems. Faculty participants also are benefiting from training and support in the development of enhanced understanding of the mentoring and advising practices that work to increase retention of higher-risk students in the sciences. The project expects this attention to faculty development to lead to a more friendly academic culture for low-income students. The broader impacts of this project are both institutional and national in scope. Locally, the mentoring and advisement structures and culture that are developed by this program are being institutionalized; and nationally, the results of the student and faculty-focused aspects of the program are being disseminated as potential models for adaptation and implementation at other colleges and universities. The intellectual merit of the project includes a focus on understanding the intersections of campus and interpersonal racial and socioeconomic dynamics and their impact on retention in STEM study. This focus contributes to the nation's understanding of the ways in which scientists can and should be prepared for and reflect the diversity of American life.