PAESMEM Organizational Award: Purchase College, SUNY / Community College Mentoring Program

纽约州立大学购买学院于2000年开始其学士学位和超越科学导师计划。该计划已指导201名代表性不足的学生在学术上取得成功，并完成科学技术，工程和数学领域（STEM）的学士学位。该计划为社区学院的学生提供了一整套辅导活动，以帮助他们完成准学士学位，转入四年制学院并完成学士学位。这些包括学术监督，学术咨询，辅导，同伴指导，职业咨询，家长活动，以及夏季的密集研究计划。该计划的学生正在完成学士学位？的学位的三倍，全国平均水平的社区学院的学生; 70%完成学士学位？在STEM领域的学位。在完成学士学位的参与学生中，有22%的人在研究生院继续他们的STEM学习。一名学生已经完成了博士学位。临床心理学专业，而其他几位已完成硕士学位或正在研究生院学习生物化学、神经药理学、医学和验光学;有几位正在科学界担任研究科学家。学士及以上课程在帮助代表性不足的少数民族，低收入和第一代大学生在STEM学科取得成功方面非常成功。在全国范围内，非裔美国人和西班牙裔学生的学士学位完成率大大低于非西班牙裔白人学生。该计划指导这些学生在学术上取得成功，完成STEM领域的学士学位，以便为STEM劳动力做好准备。到目前为止，在接受服务的201名学生中，70%是代表性不足的少数民族。该计划加强了与购买学院合作的六所社区学院的基础设施，以支持这些学生。这是通过社区大学校长的半年一次的会议来讨论计划的挑战和学生的成功故事，社区大学教师的教学研讨会，以改善入门科学课程的教学，以及学生的协作学术监测。

State University of New York, Purchase College began its Baccalaureate and Beyond Science Mentoring Program in 2000. The program has mentored 201 underrepresented students to succeed academically and complete Bachelor's degrees in science technology, engineering and math fields (STEM). The program provides a full array of mentoring activities for community college students to assist them to complete their Associates degrees, transfer to a four-year college and complete Bachelor's degrees. These include academic monitoring, academic advising, tutoring, peer mentoring, career counseling, parent events, and an intensive research program during the summer. Students in the program are completing Bachelor?s degrees at three times the national average for community college students; 70% complete Bachelor?s degrees in STEM fields. Twenty-two percent of participating students who have completed Bachelor degrees have continued their STEM studies in graduate school. One student has already completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, while several others have completed Masters Degrees or are in graduate school studying Biochemistry, Neuropharmacology, Medicine and Optometry; several are working in the scientific workforce as research scientists. The Baccalaureate and Beyond Program is highly successful at assisting underrepresented minority, low-income and first-generation college students to succeed in STEM disciplines. Nationally, the rates of bachelor degree completion for African American and Hispanic students are substantially below those of non-Hispanic Caucasian students. The program mentors these students to succeed academically to complete Bachelor's degrees in STEM fields in order to prepare them for the STEM workforce. Of the 201 students served thus far, 70% have been underrepresented minorities. The program enhances the infrastructure for supporting these students at the six community colleges that partner with Purchase College. This is accomplished through biannual meetings of community college presidents to discuss program challenges and student success stories, pedagogy workshops for community college faculty to improve the teaching of introductory science courses, and collaborative academic monitoring of students.