ACCESS Engineering (Achieving Community College Excellence, Success, and Scholarship in Engineering)

蒙哥马利学院的接入工程寻求增加在社区大学开始教育的、获得工程学学士学位的人数不足的学生的数量。该项目扩展了最佳实践和创新，包括在高中的主题暴露，密集的同行和教员支持，以及强有力的衔接协议和精选的4年制工程项目的方案增强，该项目预计在赠款期间向两个队列提供150个奖学金和支持。从高中和大学水平的数学和科学班级招募的学生是根据非传统人群学术成功的认知和非认知相关性所表现出的学术潜力来挑选的。一个由学术界、工业界和高级学生组成的顾问委员会正在支持一个由管理人员、教职员工和学生服务人员组成的项目管理团队。

ACCESS Engineering at Montgomery College seeks to increase the number of underrepresented students earning bachelors degrees in engineering who start their education at a community college. Expanding on best practices and innovations involving subject-matter exposure in high school, intensive peer and faculty support, and strong articulation agreements and programmatic enhancements with select 4-year engineering programs, the project expects to provide 150 scholarships and support to two cohorts during the grant period. Recruited from high schools and college-level math and science classes, students are being selected on the basis of academic potential demonstrated by cognitive as well as non-cognitive correlates of academic success for non-traditional populations. An advisory board including academia, industry, and upper-level students is supporting a project management team of administrators, faculty members, and student services staff.