Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Scholarship Program for Suffolk County Community College

该项目继续，建立在，并显着扩大了以前成功的NSF-CSEM奖学金计划。 该计划（从2001年至2006年运行）已经表现出显着更高的毕业率（71%）和转移率（46%）相比，平均毕业率（24%）和转移率（14%）在萨福克郡社区学院（SCCC）。 正在添加的其他功能包括：有关经济援助，毕业和转移的增强咨询;更多的暑期实习，研究机会，和工作阴影的机会;在合作机构的频繁现场图尔斯之旅;和额外的教师演示文稿，特邀演讲者，和非（SCCC）导师SSTEM/CSEMS奖学金会议.这个项目的智力优点包括：（1）由一个在科学、工程和技术方面拥有不同学术背景的项目主任团队，对现有成功的NSF-CSEMS和SCCC-CSEMS联合项目进行修订和改进;（2）团队中的两名联合PI，他们将大量时间和精力投入到SCCC的科学和工程/技术计划中，招募女性和代表性不足的少数民族（目前的NSF-CSEMS Co-PI和工程学教授谁设计，开发，目前指导学院的第一个性别平等计划，为妇女追求非传统职业的工程和技术，并在继续教育办公室的主要管理人员，谁指导许多少数民族招聘计划，包括SCCC的大学科学&技术教育计划，科学&技术入学计划和自由伙伴关系计划）;和（3）与道林学院合作，为学者提供独特的教育和研究机会，布鲁克海文国家实验室和斯托尼布鲁克大学。该项目的更广泛的影响包括通过与CSTEP合作，每年将10-15名低收入和/或代表性不足的学生过渡到NSF-STEMS计划。

This project continues, builds upon, and significantly expands a previously successful NSF-CSEM Scholarship Program. This program (operating from 2001-2006) has already demonstrated significantly higher graduation (71%) and transfer (46%) rates in comparison to the average graduation (24%) and transfer (14%) rates at Suffolk County Community College (SCCC). Additional features being added include: enhanced counseling regarding financial aid, graduation, and transfers; more summer internships, research opportunities, and job shadowing opportunities; frequent on-site tours at partnering institutions; and additional faculty presentations, invited speakers, and non- (SCCC) mentors for SSTEM/CSEMS scholarship meetings.The intellectual merits of this project include: (1) the implementation of a revised and improved version of the existing successful joint NSF-CSEMS and SCCC-CSEMS program by a team of project directors who possess diverse academic backgrounds in the sciences, engineering and technology; (2) two Co-PIs on the team who devote much of their time and efforts to recruiting women and underrepresented minorities into SCCC's science and engineering/technology programs (a current NSF-CSEMS Co-PI and engineering professor who designed, developed, and currently directs the college's first gender equity program for women pursuing nontraditional careers in engineering and technology, and a key administrator in the Office of Continuing Education, who directs numerous minority recruitment programs, including SCCC's Collegiate Science & Technology Education Program, Science & Technology Entry Program, and Liberty Partnerships Program); and (3) a unique combination of educational and research opportunities for the Scholars, offered in collaboration with Dowling Colleges, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University.The broader impacts of the project include a greater emphasis on enhancing diversity within SCCC's current core group of NSF Scholars by collaborating with CSTEP to transition 10-15 low income and/or underrepresented students into the NSF-STEMS Program each year.