Student Tuition Aid for Research and Transfer in Urban Polynesia (START UP)

在卡皮奥拉尼社区学院（KCC），夏威夷大学（UH），启动奖学金支持学院的双重使命，以准备学生在科学在自然科学（ASNS）计划，以满足严格的学位要求，继续完成学士学位要求，并满足高就业标准在一个多元化的国家经济。KCC START UP正在朝着四个雄心勃勃的主要目标取得进展：1）在五年内为100名学术天赋和经济困难的STEM学生提供1-3年的奖学金; 2）支持/培养所有S-STEM学生取得令人满意的年度进步; 3）将经济援助参与率和计划成功率从约60%提高到90%; 4）将ASNS学位学生人数从86人增加到300人，其中65人完成ASNS学位和/或转入学士学位课程。奖学金申请人的招聘策略包括一个夏桥计划，为夏威夷土著、代表性不足的学生和其他有才华的11年级和12年级学生提供STEM丰富活动。奖学金的选择采用严格的GPA和学术进步标准，每年有六名STEM教师参与生物和物理科学和工程。为启动学者的支持活动，因为他们追求全面的STEM学术课程包括STEM学习中心，同行指导，职业安置服务，本科生研究经验和社区服务的机会，以及工程，生态学，生物技术和人类生理学的正式STEM转移途径。这些活动和战略，以确保启动学者的学术成功，利用其他NSF资助的项目，以及从额外的联邦和国家投资的运营模式和基础设施。START UP计划允许KCC继续成为科学人才的有效孵化器，特别是夏威夷土著和其他在STEM中代表性不足的学生，他们在学术上很有才华，经济上处于不利地位。

At Kapiolani Community College (KCC), University of Hawaii (UH), START UP scholarships support the College's dual mission to prepare students in an Associate in Science in Natural Science (ASNS) program to meet rigorous degree requirements, go on to complete baccalaureate degree requirements, and meet high employment standards in a diversifying state economy. KCC START UP is making progress towards four ambitious, major goals: to 1) provide scholarships of 1-3 years in duration to 100 academically talented and financially needy STEM students over five years; 2) to support/nurture all S-STEM students to make satisfactory annual progress; 3) to increase financial aid participation and program success rates from approximately 60 to 90 percent; and 4) to increase the number of ASNS degree students from 86 to 300, with 65 completing the ASNS degree and/or transferring to baccalaureate degree programs. Recruitment strategies for scholarship applicants include a summer bridge program that provides STEM enrichment activities for Native Hawaiian, underrepresented, and other talented 11th and 12th grade students. Scholarship selection employs rigorous GPA and academic progress criteria and engages six STEM faculty members in the biological and physical sciences and engineering annually. Support activities for the START UP scholars as they pursue comprehensive STEM academic programs include a STEM learning center, peer mentoring, career placement services, opportunities for undergraduate research experiences and community service, and formalized STEM transfer pathways in engineering, ecology, biotechnology, and human physiology. These activities and strategies for ensuring academic success of START UP scholars leverage operational models and infrastructure from other NSF-funded projects, as well as from additional federal and state investments. The START UP program allows KCC to continue to be an effective incubator of science talent, particularly Native Hawaiians and other underrepresented students in STEM, who are academically talented and economically disadvantaged.