Financial Aid for Science and Technology students Enhanced with Research

科学和技术学生经济援助（FASTER）学生资助计划平均每年向26名表现出经济需求的学术有才华的学生颁发5000美元，抵消每个学生经济援助计划中基于需求的贷款部分的很大一部分，并且可续期长达四年（前提是学生符合该计划概述的资格要求）。奖项的平均规模是基于广泛的学生数据。该大学主要将FASTER学生资助计划作为未来学生的招募工具，在该资助的四年中每年选择入学学生。针对的是第一代大学生，目标是增加参与部门专业学生的多样性。奖学金获得者通过该计划以及现有的三一学院服务获得有针对性的学生支持。fast项目为奖学金获得者在本科生涯早期提供研究机会。12个竞争性的本科研究奖学金提供给fast的学者。参与的STEM系包括生物、化学、计算机科学、工程科学、地球科学、数学、物理与天文学。智力优势：大学提供广泛的学生支持服务，从学术支持到职业咨询/就业安排。三一学院在本科生研究方面有着长期的卓越记录，尤其是在STEM领域。本科生的研究经费来自广泛的内部和外部来源。由于其强大的支持系统和本科研究，三一学院在s&p博士学位获得者的学士学位来源中排名前50位。整个大学的STEM教师、管理人员和工作人员都在为FASTER编程的各个方面提供有效和高效的管理。FAST项目直接建立在现有的FAST学生资助项目的经验基础上，并与盟友-第一代，代表性不足的学生（FGUS），麦克奈尔学者项目，Noyce/向上发展项目，暑期研究项目和其他三一学院学生支持服务有着密切的联系。该项目正在加强现有的支持网络，以确保为STEM专业的本科生提供高质量的建议和指导，以提高学生的学习、信心、表现、毕业时的保留率，以及就业或高等教育的安置。更广泛的影响：三一大学强调招收第一代学生，增加了参与部门的多样性，以及整个学生群体，因为第一代学生更有可能有更大的经济需求，来自不同的种族和文化背景。来自弱势群体的非第一代大学生也被大量招募。由于三一学院在将学生送入高质量研究生课程方面有着良好的记录，该项目不仅为第一代大学生和那些来自弱势群体的学生提供了获得高质量教育的机会，而且还增加了这些学生追求研究生教育的可能性。机构支持系统正在通过赠款活动得到加强，因为各个校园的组成部分聚集在一起促进和支持该计划。fast学生可以参与的高质量本科研究项目（其中许多是由美国国家科学基金会支持的）每个都有自己不同的社会效益，这是研究活动的一些预期结果。

The Financial Aid for Science and Technology students Enhanced by Research (FASTER) Student Grant Program is awarding an average of $5,000 per year to 26 academically talented students who demonstrate financial need, offsetting a significant portion of the need-based loan portion of each student's financial aid package, and is renewable for up to four years (provided the student meets eligibility requirements as outlined by the program). The average size of the awards is based on extensive student data. The University is using the FASTER Student Grant Program primarily as a recruiting tool for prospective students, by selecting entering students during each of the four years of this grant. First-generation college students are targeted, with the goal of increasing the diversity of students majoring in the participating departments. Scholarship recipients receive targeted student support through this program as well as existing Trinity services. The FASTER Program provides research opportunities for scholarship recipients early in their undergraduate career. Twelve competitive FASTER Program Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships are available for FASTER scholars. Participating STEM departments are Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering Science, Geosciences, Mathematics, and Physics & Astronomy. Intellectual Merit: The university provides a wide range of student support services, from academic support to career counseling/job placement. Trinity has a long record of excellence in research with undergraduates, especially in the STEM fields. Funding for undergraduate research comes from a wide range of internal and external sources. Due to its strong support system and undergraduate research, Trinity ranks in the top 50 overall in Baccalaureate Origins of S&E Doctorate Recipients.STEM faculty, administration, and staff across the university are providing effective and efficient management of all aspects of FASTER programming. The FASTER Program builds directly from experience with the current FAST Student Grant Program and strong ties with Allies-First Generation, Underrepresented Students (FGUS), the McNair Scholars Program, Noyce/Upward Bound, the Summer Research Program, and other Trinity student support services. The Program is strengthening this current support network to ensure quality advising and mentoring of undergraduate students in the STEM majors to enhance student learning, confidence, performance, retention to graduation, and career or higher education placement. Broader Impacts: Trinity University's emphasis on recruiting first-generation students increases the diversity of the participating departments, as well as the overall student body, because first-generation students are more likely to have greater financial needs and to come from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Non-first generation college students who come from underrepresented groups are also heavily recruited. Because Trinity has a strong record of placing students into quality graduate programs, the Program not only provides first-generation college students and those from underrepresented groups access to a high quality education, it also increases the likelihood that these students will pursue post-graduate education. Institutional support systems are being strengthened through grant activities as various campus constituents are brought together to promote and support the Program. The high quality undergraduate research programs in which FASTER students can participate (many of which are NSF supported) each have their own and varied societal benefits that are some of the desired outcomes of the research activities.