RU-STEPed Up for Success

Are You Steps for Success“是一套具有凝聚力的计划干预措施，从代表性较低的群体(女性和少数族裔)中招募STEM专业学生，并通过暑期桥牌体验、学术支持、指导和迎新计划提高一年级和转学STEM学生的保留率。该计划有两个基石招聘战略：一个是针对对工程职业感兴趣的高中女生的招聘计划，另一个是针对当地学区高三和高年级学生的周六科学计划。当地学区的特点是少数民族人口众多，历史上贫困，大学出勤率低。保留活动针对数学和写作水平未达到大学水平的入学和转学学生，包括：为一年级新生提供写作、数学和化学方面的暑期过渡计划；学年辅导计划，利用训练有素的同伴导师和助教，在学生进入大学水平的课程时继续提供支持；以及创建四个学习社区：微积分预科、普通化学、女性和转学学生，包括非住校学生。该计划提供了一个具有凝聚力的学术和社会支持系统的模式，通过该系统，学业上处于不利地位的年轻人将对STEM领域的学术和智力探索感到舒服，并为之做好准备。

"Are You STEPped Up for Success" is a cohesive set of programmatic interventions that recruits STEM majors from underrepresented groups (women and minorities) and improves retention of first-year and transfer STEM students through summer bridge experiences, academic support, mentoring, and orientation programs. The program has two cornerstone recruitment strategies: a recruitment program targeted at high school girls interested in engineering careers and a Saturday Science program for high school juniors and seniors in local school districts characterized by large minority populations, historic poverty, and low college attendance. The retention activities are directed at both entering and transfer students whose skill levels in mathematics and writing do not reach college level including: a summer bridge program in writing, mathematics and chemistry for incoming first-year students; academic year mentoring programs utilizing trained peer mentors and teaching assistants to continue support as students enter college level courses; and creation of four learning communities: pre-calculus, general chemistry , women, and transfer students including non-residential students. This program provides a model for a cohesive academic and social support system by which academically disadvantaged young people will feel comfortable with, and be prepared for, academic and intellectual exploration in the STEM fields.