Partnership for Retention Improvement in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science

这一步骤项目的重点是留住。PRIMES--数学、工程和科学保留率改善合作伙伴关系--是该大学的一个跨学院合作项目，旨在联合文理学院、斯比德工程学院(SPEED)和教育与人类发展学院的教员，解决导致本科生STEM课程保留率低(从而毕业率低)的特定障碍。有两个主要组件(或股)。第一部分着重于STEM课程的教与学的转变。大一的干细胞辅导是这一系列活动的标志之一。它直接影响科学轨道入门课程的STEM新手本科生，并通过利用本科教学助理(UTA)和培训UTA的教师以及与学生更多互动的活动间接影响更高年级的STEM学生和STEM教师。第二个目标是通过实施大学范围内和特定学科的社区建设活动，培养STEM学生对STEM系的认同感，从而提高保留率。最终目标是到2016年将文理学院授予的生物、化学、地球科学、数学和物理学士学位增加25%，并在2016年前将斯比德学院授予的工程学学士和硕士学位增加25%。

The focus of this STEP project is on retention. PRIMES - Partnership for Retention Improvement in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science - is a multi-college collaboration at the university that is intended to unite faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences, the Speed School of Engineering (Speed), and the College of Education and Human Development in tackling identified hurdles that contribute to poor retention (and thus low graduation rates) in undergraduate STEM programs. There are two primary components (or strands). The first strand focuses on the transformation of teaching and learning in STEM courses. STEM tutoring in the freshman year is one of the hallmarks of activities in this strand. It directly impacts novice STEM undergraduates in science-track introductory courses, and indirectly impacts the more senior STEM students as well as STEM faculty through activities that make use of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) and faculty who train the UTAs as well as interact more with students. The second strand targets improved retention by implementing University-wide and discipline-specific community building activities that foster STEM students' sense of identification with STEM departments. Ultimately, the goal is to increase the number of Bachelor's degrees awarded in biology, chemistry, geosciences, mathematics and physics in the College of Arts & Sciences by 25% by 2016 and to increase the number of Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Engineering awarded in the Speed School by 25% by 2016.