Ohio's Sustainable Science and Engineering Talent Expansion Program (OSTEP) - Bridges to Success

通过与三所社区学院（哥伦布州立社区学院、斯塔克州立技术学院和华盛顿州立社区学院）的合作，俄亥俄州立大学正在该州三个不同的社会经济区域招募和留住大量STEM专业的学生。一个包含课程和工业或研究实习组成部分的暑期桥梁项目向大学预科学生介绍职业选择，并指导他们进入适当的中学和高等教育选择，旨在减少在学院和大学阶段补习的必要性。另一个面向社区大学转校生的桥梁项目正在减少在大学取得成功的障碍。最后，在所有的合作机构中都有同伴指导和学术支持结构，以保持对学生毕业的持续支持。该项目活动的智力价值在于大规模实施成功的方法来支持广泛的STEM学生。在四个校区之间，还存在着强有力的学科教师参与和合作，以及重要的机构支持。该项目更广泛的影响在于它建立了一个成功的STEM学科合作模式，并在组成的两年制学院和一所主要大学之间建立了合作模式。其次，通过培养学生在毕业前成为导师，并为他们提供毕业后继续指导的机会，该项目具有自我维持的能力。

Through a partnership with three community colleges (Columbus State Community College, Stark State College of Technology and Washington State Community College) the Ohio State University is working in three distinct socioeconomic regions of the state to recruit and retain a broad population of STEM majors. A summer bridge program with curricular and industrial or research internship components introduces pre-college students to career options and guides them into appropriate secondary school and post-secondary options aimed at reducing the necessity for remediation at the college and university level. A second bridge program for transfer students from community colleges is reducing the barriers to success at university. Finally, peer-mentoring and academic support structures are in place within all of the collaborating institutions to maintain continuous support for the students through graduation. The intellectual merit of the project's activities rests on the large scale implementation of successful approaches for supporting a broad range of STEM students. Strong disciplinary faculty involvement and collaboration across the four campuses is also present, as well as significant institutional support. The broader impacts of the project lie in its establishment of a successful model of collaboration across STEM disciplines and among constituent two-year colleges and a major university. Secondly, the project has a self-sustaining capacity through the training of students to be mentors before they graduate and the provision of opportunities for them to continue mentoring after graduation.