Mathematics, Engineering, Technology, and Science Scholarship Program

这个数学，工程，技术和科学（METS）奖学金计划建立在布朗克斯社区学院（BCC）之前非常成功的奖学金计划的基础上，BCC是纽约系统城市大学的一个为少数民族服务的两年制机构。 通过每年支持20至25名学生，该计划的中心目标是增加科学领域准备充分的BCC毕业生的数量-无论是那些继续四年制大学的人还是那些直接加入高科技劳动力的人。 奖学金获得者从BCC的数学，科学和科学技术课程以及从当地高中招募，因为他们在BCC录取。 METS奖学金计划还支持从BCC毕业并转入纽约城市大学四年制机构的奖学金获得者，如果他们仍然处于良好的学术地位，是全日制学生，并且是BCC教师导师的研究助理。 一个学生总共可以获得最多六个学期的支持。 学生学者和BCC教师组成了METS学院，仿照BCC的科学学院和荣誉计划。 在学院中，每个学生都被分配了一名教师，他是学生在整个学生参与计划期间的导师和顾问。 由于STEM领域的所有学生都学习微积分和化学或物理，因此学生群体通过参与共同课程而产生。 此外，数学，物理和化学系的主席开会，以确定课程的时间表，使他们不重叠。 这使得相同的学生采取微积分I或II与物理I或II或化学I或II。 由于生物学专业的学生必须参加四个学期的化学课程，他们也受益于这个块调度。 METS学院的其他学生支持服务进一步加强了相互支持的队列关系。 例如，学院赞助继续接受教育或在技术行业工作的校友的讲座。 该学院还提供辅导，包括通过与霍洛维茨社区学院合作，为科学和工程专业的学生提供物理和数学方面的同行领导的丰富研讨会。 为了进一步加深学生对科学研究的理解，METS学院为学生提供有关研究机会的信息，并鼓励他们参加研究丰富研讨会。 当他们接近他们在BCC的后学期，奖学金获得者被引导到职业服务办公室的面试技巧和简历写作研讨会和转让中心，因为他们接近毕业。METS奖学金计划的成功正在通过评估以下方面进行研究： - 在四年制大学毕业并转入STEM专业或在技术领域找到工作的奖学金获得者的百分比; - 增加BCC STEM领域的入学人数; - 在BCC学习STEM专业的女性人数增加;以及 - 在BCC注册STEM课程的高中生人数。

This Mathematics, Engineering, Technology, and Science (METS) Scholarship Program builds on a prior, highly successful scholarship program at Bronx Community College (BCC), a minority-serving, two-year institution of the City University of New York system. Through support of 20 to 25 students each year, the central goal of the program is to increase the number of well-prepared BCC graduates in scientific fields - both those who continue to a four-year college and those who directly join the high technology work force. Scholarship recipients are recruited from mathematics, science and scientific technology courses at BCC as well as from local high schools as they matriculate at BCC. The METS Scholarship Program also supports scholarship recipients who graduate from BCC and transfer to a four-year institution of the City University of New York for their junior year, if they are still in good academic standing, are full-time students, and are research associates with a BCC faculty mentor. In total, a student can be supported for a maximum of six semesters. Student scholars and BCC faculty members constitute the METS Academy, modeled on BCC's Science Academy and Honors Program. In the Academy, each student is assigned a faculty member who is the student's mentor and advisor throughout the student's participation in the program. Since all students in STEM fields take calculus and either chemistry or physics, student cohorts arise through participation in common courses. In addition, the chairs of the mathematics, physics and chemistry departments meet to determine the schedules for the courses so that they do not overlap. This enables the same students to take Calculus I or II with Physics I or II or Chemistry I or II. As Biology majors have to take four semesters of chemistry, they also benefit from this block scheduling. Additional student support services of the METS Academy further enhance mutually supportive cohort relationships. For example, the Academy sponsors talks by alumni who are continuing their education or who work in the technology industry. The Academy also offers tutoring, including peer-led enrichment workshops in physics and mathematics for science and engineering students through a collaboration with Hostos Community College. To further students' understanding of scientific research, the METS Academy provides students with information about research opportunities and encourages them to enroll in a Research Enrichment Seminar. As they approach their later semesters at BCC, scholarship recipients are directed to the Office of Career Services for workshops on interviewing skills and resume writing and to the Transfer Center as they approach graduation. Success of the METS Scholarship Program is being studied by evaluating the following: - percentage of scholarship recipients who graduate and transfer to a STEM major at a four-year college or find employment in the technology area; - increased enrollment in STEM fields at BCC; - an increase in the number of women enrolled in STEM majors at BCC; and - the number of high school students who enroll in STEM programs at BCC.