Financial Aid for Science and Technology Students

理工科学生资助

• 批准号: 0806471
• 负责人: Michelle Bushey
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Trinity University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-15 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0806471&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Financial; Aid; Science; Technology; Students

Through its Financial Aid for Science and Technology (FAST) Student Grant Program, Trinity University is awarding an estimated 176 individual scholarships of $4,600 per year to academically talented students who demonstrate financial need, offsetting a significant portion of the need-based loan portion of each student's financial aid package. The scholarships are renewable by individual students for up to four years. Through the program, Trinity especially seeks to recruit first-generation college students in order to reach institutional goals of increasing the diversity of students majoring in a broad range of STEM disciplines, including Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering Science, Geosciences, Mathematics, and Physics & Astronomy. Moreover, FAST student grants are also available to eligible transfer students matriculating at Trinity after commencing their college careers on one of the campuses of the Alamo Community College District. The FAST Student Grant Program is linked strongly with two other Trinity programs: an Upward Bound program for secondary students at area high schools and a Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program for undergraduate students moving on to doctoral studies.The FAST Student Grant Program has three major objectives:1. To decrease the loan indebtedness of a significant number of academically talented students majoring in the STEM disciplines by offering multi-year scholarships, thereby making if easier for economically challenged students to attend Trinity University and complete their degree within four years;2. To increase the diversity (economic, ethnic, cultural, physically-challenged, and/or gender) of students majoring in the STEM disciplines , with a primary focus on first-generation college students; and3. To provide academic support, faculty and peer mentoring and career placement counseling services to scholarship recipients by utilizing existing Trinity practices and programs and by strategically strengthening and focusing these programs to improve the college experiences of the recipients and enable their success.

通过其财政援助科学和技术（FAST）学生补助金计划，Trinity大学每年向表现出经济需要的学术天才学生颁发约176个4，600美元的个人奖学金，抵消了每个学生经济援助计划中基于需求的贷款部分的很大一部分。 奖学金可由学生个人续期，最长可达四年。通过该计划，Trinity特别寻求招募第一代大学生，以达到增加学生的多样性的机构目标，主修广泛的STEM学科，包括生物学，化学，计算机科学，工程科学，地球科学，数学和物理天文学。 此外，FAST学生赠款也可用于在阿拉莫社区学院区的一个校区开始大学生涯后在Trinity录取的合格转学生。 FAST学生补助金计划与其他两个Trinity计划密切相关：一个是针对地区高中中学生的向上拓展计划，另一个是罗纳德E。麦克奈尔学士后成就计划的本科生转向博士研究。FAST学生资助计划有三个主要目标：1。 通过提供多年奖学金，减少大量主修STEM学科的学术天才学生的贷款债务，从而使经济困难的学生更容易进入Trinity大学并在四年内完成学位;2. 增加STEM学科专业学生的多样性（经济，种族，文化，身体障碍和/或性别），主要关注第一代大学生; 3. 通过利用现有的Trinity实践和计划，并通过战略性地加强和集中这些计划，以改善受助人的大学经历，使他们取得成功，为奖学金获得者提供学术支持，教师和同伴指导和职业安置咨询服务。