New York City College of Technology, CUNY, S-STEM Program in Chemical Technology, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

纽约城市理工学院（City Tech）的S-STEM项目是纽约城市大学指定的技术学院，S-STEM每学期为25名有前途但经济困难的学生提供奖学金，为期四年。这种支持使学生能够获得化学技术或计算机科学的副学士学位，或应用数学的学士学位。参加这三个项目之一的新生、继续学生和转学生都有资格获得奖学金支持。城市科技的实用职业导向课程与机构学生支持基础设施相关联。为学生提供新生学习社区，同伴领导的团队学习，实习，研究机会，咨询和指导，针对S-STEM奖学金获得者的职业兴趣，以确保学业成功。城市科技S-STEM项目采用了具体的策略来实现NSF S-STEM项目的目标：改善学生的教育机会；增加学生对学位成就的保留；改善学生支持计划；在国家需要的技术领域增加受过良好教育和熟练的雇员人数。这些策略包括但不限于：缓解经济问题，让学生有更多的时间学习和参与校园内的职业活动；家庭参与提供培育情感的支持；建立STEM招聘计划，招收大约800名参加城市理工大学非分类健康（UCH）项目的学生，这些学生都接受过重要的本科STEM课程；每个S-STEM学者都被分配一名个人顾问，并根据专业分配一名个人顾问或共同个人顾问；入学新生是S-STEM学者学习社区的一部分；咨询服务中心提供关于培养更好的学习习惯的信息；就业办公室协助学生寻找暑期工作；对于即将毕业的学生，奖学金可以让他们接受有价值但没有报酬的实习机会，这些实习可以培养他们的工作技能；向高中辅导员和教师提供有关S-STEM奖学金机会的信息，以提高学生参加更具挑战性的高中科学和数学课程的动力。尽管学生群体通常被认为是“处于危险之中”，但美国国家科学基金会（NSF）在授予非裔美国学生的科学和工程副学士学位数量方面，将城市科技列为全美第4位，授予西班牙裔学生的学位排名第14位，女性排名第21位，男性排名第19位。这些奖学金不仅将增加建立更多样化的美国劳动力所需的STEM毕业生，而且这个城市科技S-STEM项目还参与评估招聘和保留实践，有可能成为类似机构的典范。

The S-STEM project at New York City College of Technology (City Tech), the designated college of technology within the City University of New York, S-STEM provides scholarships to twenty-five promising, but financially disadvantaged students, each semester for up to four years. This support enables students to earn associate degrees in Chemical Technology or Computer Science, or bachelor degrees in Applied Mathematics. Incoming freshmen, continuing, and transfer students enrolling in one of these three programs are eligible for scholarship support. City Tech's practical career-oriented programs are linked to an institutional student support infrastructure. Students are provided with freshmen learning communities, peer-led-team-learning, internships, research opportunities, counseling, and mentoring targeted to career interests for S-STEM scholarship recipients to ensure academic success.The City Tech S-STEM project employs specific strategies to address the NSF S-STEM program goals: Improve educational opportunities for students; Increase retention of students to degree achievement; Improve student support programs; and increase the number of well educated and skilled employees in technical areas of national need. These strategies include, but are not limited to: easing financial concerns, so that students have more time for study and involvement in professional career activities on campus; family involvement to provide nurturing emotional support; establishment of a STEM recruitment plan that reaches out to the approximately 800 students enrolled in City Tech's Unclassified Health (UCH) program, who have had significant undergraduate STEM courses; each S-STEM Scholar is assigned an individual counselor and one of the PIs or co-PIs as an advisor, based on major; entering freshmen are part of an S-STEM Scholars Learning Community; the Counseling Services Center provides information on developing better study habits; the Placement Office assists students in finding summer employment; for students nearing graduation, the scholarships allow them to accept valuable, but unpaid credit-bearing internships, which develop work place skills; and high school counselors and teachers are given information regarding the S-STEM scholarship opportunity in order to increase motivation among students to take more challenging high school science and mathematics courses.Despite a student population often considered 'at risk,' the NSF ranked City Tech 4th in the nation in the number of science and engineering associate degrees awarded to African American students, 14th in degrees to Hispanics, 21st for women, and 19th for men. These scholarships will not only increase the STEM graduates needed to build a more diverse US workforce, but this City Tech S-STEM project also is engaged in evaluating recruitment and retention practices, with the potential of serving as a model for similar institutions.