ONSIGHT Collaborative Scholarship Project

ONSIGHT合作奖学金项目

• 批准号: 0966314
• 负责人: Ann Murkowski
• 金额: $ 36万
• 依托单位: Seattle Community College District Office
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0966314&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ONSIGHT; Collaborative; Scholarship; Project

The three colleges of Seattle Community College (SCC) District VI are awarding 170 scholarships of up to $6,000 each over a 5-year period to talented, low-income students pursuing careers or transfer associate degrees in astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, computer science, engineering, environmental sciences, geology, mathematics, nanotechnology, oceanography, physics and sustainable agriculture. This ONSIGHT Collaborative Scholarship Project began at Seattle Central Community College, and therefore the new collaboration between the Seattle Central, Seattle North, and Seattle South Community College campuses relies on and is building upon established and successful scholarship procedures, student support infrastructures, undergraduate research programs, the previous experience of the management team on Central's project, and the powerful collaboration of three Science and Mathematics Divisions across the district. The Seattle Community Colleges serve highly diverse populations. Central alone serves the largest number of underrepresented students of any of the 34 colleges in Washington State. Recent records show that over one-half of the potential ONSIGHT Collaborative scholarship appplicant pool consists of women, over 30% are first generation, over 43% are students of color and over a third reside in households in the lowest two socio-economic quintiles. Thus the recruitment and selection processes, and the mentoring and support service structures established for the ONSIGHT Collaborative Scholarship project are designed to support the significant participation and success of scholars typically underrepresented in STEM fields. The project's evaluation plan is contributing to the base of S-STEM knowledge regarding student support interventions and their correlated impacts; dissemination of success and lessons learned to local and national audiences is providing information for replication. The project is transformative due to the necessary collaboration between the three Science and Mathematics Divisions: deans, faculty, student support service personnel and scholars are meeting and working together frequently to assure student success. Situated within one of the great science and technology centers of the nation, the Seattle Community College District finds that there is no better focus to exercise the benefits of collaboration than by working together in support of its up-and-coming STEM students.

西雅图社区学院(SCC)第六区的三所学院将在5年内向天文学、生物学、植物学、化学、计算机科学、工程、环境科学、地质学、数学、纳米技术、海洋学、物理学和可持续农业等领域的有才华的低收入学生颁发170个奖学金，每个奖学金最高可达6,000美元。OnSight合作奖学金项目始于西雅图中心社区学院，因此，西雅图中心、西雅图北部和西雅图南部社区学院校区之间的新合作依赖于并正在建立已建立和成功的奖学金程序、学生支持基础设施、本科生研究项目、之前管理团队在中心项目上的经验，以及整个地区三个科学和数学部门的强大合作。西雅图社区学院为高度多样化的人群提供服务。在华盛顿州34所大学中，仅Central一所就为人数不足的学生提供了最多的服务。最近的记录显示，潜在的OnSight合作奖学金申请者池中有一半以上是女性，超过30%是第一代，超过43%是有色人种学生，超过三分之一居住在社会经济最低的两个五分之一的家庭。因此，为OnSight合作奖学金项目建立的招聘和遴选程序以及指导和支助服务结构旨在支持在科学、技术和经济研究领域中代表性较低的学者的大量参与和成功。该项目的评估计划正在为S-STEM关于学生支持干预措施及其相关影响的知识奠定基础；向当地和全国受众传播成功和吸取的经验教训正在提供可供复制的信息。由于三个科学和数学部门之间的必要合作，该项目具有变革性：院长、教师、学生支持服务人员和学者经常会面并共同努力，以确保学生取得成功。西雅图社区学院学区位于美国最大的科学和技术中心之一，它发现，没有比共同努力支持其未来的STEM学生更能发挥合作优势的最佳方式了。