Pathways to Academic Excellance

南康涅狄格州立大学的学术卓越之路（PAcE）项目是一个跨学科项目（数学、计算机科学、生物、化学、物理和地球科学），为26名学生提供全额奖学金。在项目的头两年，将招收高中毕业生，如果取得令人满意的进展，将提供四年的奖学金支持。在接下来的几年里，将招收当地社区大学的学生，然后提供奖学金支持，直到他们毕业。通过学生早期参与教师指导的研究和实习，通过参与服务学习课程，通过形成队列小组和学习社区，通过在学生第一年和/或参加“脱轨课程”期间仔细监测学生的进步，以及通过广泛的职业咨询和安置活动，学生的成功得到提高。PAcE学者的焦点小组参与是一个重要的项目元素，可以在障碍导致人员流失之前消除或减少学生成功的障碍。

The Pathways to Academic Excellence (PAcE) program at Southern Connecticut State University is an interdisciplinary project (Mathematics, Computer Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth Science) that awards full scholarships to 26 students. During the program's first two years, high school seniors are being recruited and then provided, assuming satisfactory progress, with four years of scholarship support. In subsequent years, local community college students will be recruited and then provided with scholarship support until they graduate. Student success is enhanced through early student involvement in faculty-mentored research and internships, by participation in a service learning course, through the formation of cohort groups and learning communities, by careful monitoring of student progress during the students' first year and/or while taking "derailment courses," and through extensive career counseling and placement activities. Focus group participation by PAcE Scholars is an essential program element to remove or minimize roadblocks to student success before the impediment leads to attrition.