Implementation Project: Utica Campus Community College Transformation HBCU-UP Initiative

Hinds社区学院学区的Utica校区项目名为：Utica校园社区大学转型HBCU-Up倡议，旨在发展教育桥梁，为学生提供更多在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力中的机会。UC3T计划的总体目标是，通过加强桥梁，支持学生从高中到社区大学以及从社区大学到学位授予机构攻读STEM学士学位，从而使在CC完成工作并准备在四年制院校攻读学士学位的学生人数增加一倍以上。杰克逊州立大学正在结成一个联盟，支持来自肝细胞癌学区的学生进入JSU攻读STEM学位。UC3T计划涉及STEM学生和教师发展的多个方面。UC3T倡议包括七个部分：(1)涉及过程教育战略的教学变革，(2)教师准备桥梁，(3)网络机构更新，(4)无缝衔接，(5)联合学术桥梁，(6)本科生研究经验，以及(7)创建STEM社区大学科学多样性中心？所有这些都旨在提高Utica校园STEM学生的入学率、保留率、毕业率和转校率。这些组成部分是根据包括教师和学生调查在内的全面需求评估选定的。该项目可以作为鼓励从社区学院到学位授予机构的学生入学的全国模式。

The Utica Campus of the Hinds Community College District's project entitled: The Utica Campus Community College Transformation HBCU-UP Initiative, seeks to develop educational bridges that provide greater opportunities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce for their students. The overarching goal of the UC3T initiative is to more than double the number of students who complete work at HCC prepared to pursue B.S. degrees at four-year institutions by strengthening bridges that support students' matriculation from high school to community college and from community college to degree-granting institutions in pursuit of a B.S. degree in STEM. Jackson State University is forming an alliance to support students from the HCC district matriculating to JSU to pursue degrees STEM fields. The UC3T Initiative addresses a number of aspects of student and faculty development in STEM. Seven components comprise the UC3T initiative: (1) pedagogical transformations involving process education strategies, (2) faculty preparedness bridges, (3) cyber-institutional renewal, (4) seamless articulation, (5) joint academic bridges, (6) research experiences for undergraduates, and (7) the creation of a STEM community college science diversity center ? all designed to increase the enrollment, retention, and graduation and transfer rate of Utica Campus STEM students. These components were selected based on a comprehensive needs assessment including faculty and student surveys.This project can serve as a national model to encourage student matriculation from community colleges to degree granting institutions.