Supporting Early Career STEM Majors Through Community and Interdisciplinary Interaction

杜鲁门州立大学的S-STEM奖学金计划的目标是增加成功完成STEM学士学位的学术人才的数量，并增加杜鲁门STEM学生群体的多样性。该项目支持有才华的学生证明谁是在生物学，化学和物理学或相关的跨学科课程专业的财政需要。奖学金和学生支持服务是在大一和大二期间提供的，当时有证据表明，杜鲁门州立大学的学生最容易离开STEM专业。该项目的目标是：1）提高目标学科学生的大一至大三留存率; 2）提高生物、化学和物理专业大一新生中少数民族学生的比例; 3）让目标学科的一年级和二年级学生进行跨学科思考和推理; 4）将项目参与者与关键的学生支持服务联系起来。通过特殊的研讨会课程和队列会议，奖学金获得者从事一系列活动，旨在促进社区意识和发展支持网络，以帮助他们坚持他们的STEM专业的跨学科主题。

The goal of the S-STEM scholarship program at Truman State University is to increase the number of academically talented students who successfully complete a STEM baccalaureate degree and to increase the diversity of the STEM student body at Truman. The project supports talented students with demonstrated financial need who are majoring in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics or related interdisciplinary programs. Scholarships and student support services are provided during the freshman and sophomore years, when evidence shows that Truman State students are most vulnerable to leaving STEM majors. The objectives of the project are: 1) to increase the freshman to junior year retention rate for students in the target disciplines; 2) to increase the percentage of freshman Biology, Chemistry, and Physics majors who are minority students; 3) to engage first and second year students in the target disciplines in interdisciplinary thinking and reasoning; 4) to connect project participants to critical student support services. Through special seminar courses and cohort meetings, scholarship recipients engage in a range of activities with an interdisciplinary theme designed to promote a sense of community and develop a support network to help them persist in their STEM major.