Scholarships to Enhance Life Sciences (STELS)

德克萨斯农工大学生命科学系-科珀斯·克里斯蒂是一家西班牙裔服务机构，设立了奖学金以增强生命科学(STELS)计划，以帮助在学术上有天赋但经济困难的生命科学专业的学生成功完成学士学位。该计划每年为第二学期的新生和第一学期的二年级学生提供15个新的和/或继续的奖学金。STELS的目标是：-增加攻读生命科学学士学位的本科生的数量、质量、多样性和留存率；-增加研究生院的入学人数；-提高进入劳动力市场的学生的质量。为了实现生命科学专业的这些目标，STELS提供奖学金以满足奖学金获得者未得到满足的经济需求；将学生支持服务整合到STELS活动中；为STELS学生提供职业发展机会；鼓励STELS学生与其他奖学金项目的学生之间的互动；并为STELS学者群体建立一个社区。招聘策略包括宣传册、新生迎新公告、建议会议和班级访问。此外，通过(A)一年级学习社区(FYLC)计划，帮助学生成功地完成从高中到大学的学业和社会过渡，以及(B)荣誉计划，向有能力在学业上出类拔萃并渴望发展全球视野的高积极性学生提供丰富的学习计划，进行有针对性的招聘。

The Department of Life Sciences at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, a Hispanic serving institution, established the Scholarships To Enhance Life Sciences (STELS) program to assist academically talented, but financially needy life science majors, to successfully complete their baccalaureate degrees. The program offers 15 new and/or continuing scholarships annually to second semester freshmen and first semester sophomores. STELS goals are to: - increase the quantity, quality, diversity and retention of undergraduate students pursuing baccalaureate degrees in life sciences; - increase matriculation into graduate school; and - increase the quality of students entering the workforce. In order to achieve these goals for life sciences majors, STELS provides scholarships to fulfill the scholarship recipients' unmet financial needs; integrates student support services into STELS activities; presents professional development opportunities to STELS students; encourages interactions between STELS students and students in other scholarship programs; and builds a community for the cohorts of STELS scholars. Recruitment strategies include brochures, announcements at freshman orientation, and advising sessions and class visits. In addition, targeted recruitment occurs through (a) a First Year Learning Community (FYLC) program which helps students make successful academic and social transitions from high school to the University, and (b) the Honors Program which offers enriched plans of study to highly motivated students who have the ability to excel academically and the desire to develop global perspectives.