Kalamazoo Scholars: Local Access to a National Science-Rich Liberal Arts Education

该项目通过S-STEM计划支持十名有经济需要的学术天才学生四年。按照机构的目标，成为一个更具包容性的校园，学院正在招募学生在种族和民族多元化的城市卡拉马祖和巴特克里克在努力吸引学生从传统上在科学代表性不足的群体本地这个程序。招聘工作建立在与卡拉马祖公立学校、巴特克里克公立学校和当地社区组织已有的关系基础上。该项目的目标是：（a）吸引代表性不足群体的学生（主要是黑人和西班牙裔）有学术天赋和经济需要，对科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）领域感兴趣;（B）加强和增加现有的支持结构，以留住这些和其他学生在STEM领域;以及（c）在这个项目中建立一个概念证明，以鼓励捐助者为希望主修STEM领域的学术人才和经济需要的学生提供奖学金计划。该项目的智力价值在于高质量S-STEM学生正在接受科学教育。这些学生与有成就和敬业的教师合作;在数学和科学方面采取严格，引人入胜的课程;并参加丰富的教育计划，如暑期研究经验和职业实习。该项目正在调整那些成功帮助少数民族学生在数学和科学方面达到高水平的项目。这些计划包括工作的尤里Treisman，工作的罗伯特摩西和代数项目，特别是工作的弗里曼Hrabowski和迈耶霍夫学者计划。该项目更广泛的影响包括重点支持传统上代表性不足的群体的学生获得STEM领域的学士学位，并帮助这些学生为研究生学习做好准备。为S-STEM学生提供的支持计划也增加了学院所有STEM专业的保留率，并鼓励更多的有色人种学生，而不仅仅是S-STEM学生，考虑并坚持STEM学科。

This project is supporting ten academically talented students with financial need for four years through the S-STEM program. In accordance with institutional goals to become a more inclusive campus, the college is recruiting students for this program locally in the racially and ethnically diverse cities of Kalamazoo and Battle Creek in an effort to attract students from groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. Recruiting efforts build on pre-existing relationships with the Kalamazoo Public Schools, the Battle Creek Public Schools, and local community organizations. The goals of the project are to: (a) attract students from underrepresented groups (mainly Black and Hispanic) with academic talent and financial need interested in majoring in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) fields; (b) enhance and add to existing support structures to retain these and other students in STEM fields; and (c) establish a proof of concept in this project to encourage donors to endow a scholarship program for students from underrepresented groups with academic talent and financial need who wish to major in a STEM field.The intellectual merit of the project lies in the high quality science education the S-STEM students are being offered. These students work with accomplished and dedicated faculty; take rigorous, engaging coursework in math and science; and participate in enriching educational programs, such as summer research experiences and career internships. The project is adapting programs that have been successful in helping minority students achieve at a high level in math and science. These programs include the work of Uri Treisman, the work of Robert Moses and the Algebra Project, and in particular the work of Freeman Hrabowski and the Meyerhoff Scholars Program. The broader impacts of the project include a focus on supporting students from traditionally underrepresented groups in earning a baccalaureate degree in a STEM field and helping these students prepare for post-graduate study. The support programs put in place for S-STEM students are also increasing retention for all STEM majors at the college and encouraging more students of color, not only S-STEM students, to consider, and persist in, STEM disciplines.