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地区努力招收和留住大量STEM专业的学生。暑期桥项目包括课程和工业或研究实习，为大学前的学生提供职业选择，并引导他们进入适当的中学和中学后选择，旨在减少在大学和学院层面进行补救的必要性。为社区学院转学的第二个过渡性项目是降低在大学取得成功的门槛。最后，在所有合作机构内都建立了同行指导和学术支持结构，以保持对学生在毕业期间的持续支持。该项目活动的学术价值在于大规模实施了支持广泛的STEM学生的成功方法。此外，四个校区的学科教员的大力参与和协作，以及重要的机构支持也是存在的。该项目更广泛的影响在于它建立了跨STEM学科以及组成两年制学院和一所主要大学的合作的成功模式。其次，该项目具有自给自足的能力，通过培训学生在毕业前成为导师，并为他们提供机会，使他们在毕业后继续担任导师。

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.