Opportunities for STEM Success at Mercy College

Mercy College STEM 成功机会

• 批准号: 0965810
• 负责人: Yun Wang
• 金额: $ 59.66万
• 依托单位: MERCY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0965810&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Opportunities; STEM; Success; Mercy; College

This project is awarding scholarships and providing comprehensive support services to academically talented but financially needy students. Scholarships are supporting a total of 29 scholars for up to five years while the scholars earn bachelor's degrees in Mathematics, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or Information Assurance and Security. Support structures for participants include the institution's personalized achievement compact, which provides each student with a personal mentor who will advises students on academics, college life, and career paths. Additional support includes mentoring by faculty, field trips to local industries, a seminar series, and internship opportunities. The institution boasts an ethnically diverse student body, and many of its students are among the first generation in their families to attend college. The goal of the program is to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups who complete a baccalaureate degree program in computer information science or mathematics.

该项目向有学术才能但经济困难的学生颁发奖学金并提供全面的支助服务。 奖学金将为29名学者提供长达五年的支持，这些学者将获得数学、计算机信息系统、计算机科学或信息保障与安全的学士学位。 参与者的支持结构包括该机构的个性化成就契约，为每个学生提供个人导师，他将为学生提供学术，大学生活和职业道路方面的建议。 其他支持包括教师指导，实地考察当地行业，研讨会系列和实习机会。 该机构拥有一个种族多元化的学生团体，许多学生是他们家庭中第一代上大学的人。 该计划的目标是增加来自代表性不足群体的学生人数，他们完成了计算机信息科学或数学的学士学位课程。