Urban Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program

这一伙伴关系包括三所大型城市通勤学校、两所社区学院（芝加哥城市学院和奥利弗-哈维学院）和芝加哥州立大学（CSU）。 它通过直接关注学生学习质量和让学生在学术生涯早期参与研究项目，促进了坚持科学、技术、工程和数学课程和专业的学生人数的增加。程序：1.使社区学院的学生能够直接进入CSU学士学位STEM课程; 2.通过各种项目为学生提供支持，包括促进学习、在线辅导、职业咨询、研讨会、发展讲习班以及教师和同伴指导项目; 3.及早重视发展学生的数学及写作技巧;及利用CSU当地的草原花园进行生态和环境实地研究，作为基础，以扩大学生在本科早期的研究机会。智力优势：贡献这个项目的智力价值是：通过加强学生的数学和写作技能，对学术卓越的强烈强调;提供早期的研究经验，学生可以看到的东西是他们世界的一部分;并密切关注通过队列类参与，教师和同行研讨会，小组研究，研讨会和动手教学支持数学和科学。更广泛的影响：这些机构长期以来在其学术课程中不断增加多样性的成功记录，并与公立学校，社区学院和公共机构努力工作。 目标是将本科研究增加20%，从社区学院到学士学位机构的转移率增加25%。该方案的成果正在广泛传播。

This partnership encompasses three large urban commuting schools, two community colleges (City Colleges of Chicago Kennedy-King College and Olive-Harvey College) and the Chicago State University (CSU). It is fostering an increase in the number of students persisting in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses and majors by focusing directly on the quality of student learning and engaging students in research projects early in their academic careers. The program: 1. enables students at community colleges to matriculate directly into the CSU baccalaureate STEM programs; 2. gives students support through programs that include facilitated learning, on-line tutoring, career counseling, seminars, development workshops, and faculty and peer mentoring programs; 3. puts early emphasis on developing student skills in mathematics and writing; and 4. uses CSU's local prairie garden for ecological and environmental field research as a base to expand opportunities for student research opportunities early in their undergraduate years. Intellectual Merit: Contributing to the intellectual merit of this project are: the strong emphasis on academic excellence through strengthening student skills in mathematics and writing; affording early research experiences on something that students can see is a part of their world; and the close attention to support through cohort class participation, faculty and peer workshops, group study, seminars, and hands-on instruction in mathematics and science. Broader impacts: These institutions have long successful records of increasing diversity throughout their academic programs and have worked diligently with the public schools, community colleges and public institutions to do so. The goals are to increase undergraduate research by 20% and transfer rates from community college to baccalaureate institutions by 25%. The results of the program are being widely disseminated.