Math & Science Institute: S-STEM Diversity

为了满足当地劳动力的需求，棕榈海滩社区学院（PBCC）正在招募85名经济困难，成绩优异的学生进入STEM学科。特别强调招收代表性不足的学生。为此，提供了英文、西班牙文和克里奥尔文的征聘材料。招生目标是58%的少数民族学生，45%的女生和30%的非传统学生，他们在高中毕业后24个月返回学校。学生可以获得A.S.打算进入劳动力市场，或进入学士学位。佛罗里达大西洋大学（FAU）的学位课程。如果转移，项目参与者将获得S-STEM奖学金，用于他们在FAU学习的第三年，以及FAU奖学金，用于他们的第四年。学生支持系统包括学生定向，每周在线聊天会议，同行指导，生物技术和环境实习，学生成功研讨会; PBCC教师计划前往FAU校园，继续指导转学生。保留和安置目标是90%的S-STEM学者完成他们报名参加的两年制课程，90%的毕业生在毕业后12个月内就业或参加与其学科相关的四年制课程。

In response to local workforce needs, Palm Beach Community College (PBCC) is recruiting eighty-five financially needy, high achieving students into the STEM disciplines. There is a special emphasis on recruiting area underrepresented students. To this aim, recruiting materials are available in English, Spanish and Creole. Recruiting objectives are 58% underrepresented minority students, 45% female students, and 30% nontraditional students in that they returned to school 24 months after graduating high school. Students can either obtain an A.S. degree intending to enter the workforce, or enter a B.S. degree program with Florida Atlantic University (FAU). If transferring, project participants receive S-STEM scholarship funds for their third year of studies at FAU, and FAU scholarship funds for their fourth year. Student support systems include student orientation, weekly online chat sessions, peer mentoring, biotechnology and environmental internships, student success seminars; PBCC faculty plan to travel to the FAU campus for the purpose of continued mentoring of transfer students. Retention and placement targets are that 90% of the S-STEM scholars complete the two-year program in which they enroll, and 90% of these graduating student are employed or enrolled in a four year program related to their discipline within 12 months of graduation.