Student Mentoring to Achieve Retention: Triads in Science (SMARTS)

学生辅导以实现保留：科学三合会（SMARTS）

• 批准号: 1153832
• 负责人: Renato Aguilera
• 金额: $ 57.82万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1153832&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; Mentoring; Achieve; Retention; Triads

The Student Mentoring to Achieve Retention: Triads in Science program (SMARTS) at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has as its primary goals to encourage more underrepresented and financially disadvantaged students to persist as science majors, complete their degrees in a timely manner, enhance their interest in pursuing advanced degrees, and provide them with the tools necessary to become skilled scientists and educators, so that they are able to compete effectively in the global academic and technical workforce. To realize these goals, the program uses an innovative approach that involves the formation of mentoring teams consisting of one faculty member, one graduate student and one undergraduate student (junior or senior level), who form a mentoring triad. The program has three main objectives: 1) achieve full retention of talented but financially disadvantaged undergraduate students (juniors and seniors) majoring in the sciences, while significantly reducing their time to graduation; 2) increase the number of undergraduates, particularly members of underrepresented minorities, who elect and are well-prepared to pursue advanced degrees in the sciences; and 3) recruit more graduate students to become educators and research mentors in the sciences. Through the triad approach, undergraduates learn to work effectively in teams and learn from practitioners what to expect in future years. Graduate students hone their team-building and mentoring skills, which is valuable as they pursue educational, leadership and managerial roles in STEM fields. The program also enriches the professional training of graduate students through several of the program workshops.

学生辅导，以实现保留：黑社会科学计划（SMARTS）在得克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校（UTEP）的主要目标是鼓励更多代表性不足和经济困难的学生坚持作为科学专业，及时完成学位，提高他们追求高级学位的兴趣，并为他们提供必要的工具，成为熟练的科学家和教育工作者。使他们能够在全球学术和技术劳动力中有效竞争。为了实现这些目标，该计划采用了一种创新的方法，涉及由一名教师，一名研究生和一名本科生（初级或高级）组成的指导团队的形成，他们形成了一个指导三合会。该计划有三个主要目标：1）实现有才华但经济困难的本科生的完全保留（大三和大四）主修科学，同时大大减少他们的毕业时间; 2）增加本科生的数量，特别是代表性不足的少数民族成员，他们选择并准备好攻读科学高级学位; 3）招收更多的研究生成为科学领域的教育工作者和研究导师。 通过三位一体的方法，本科生学会在团队中有效地工作，并从从业者那里学到未来几年的期望。研究生磨练他们的团队建设和指导技能，这是有价值的，因为他们追求在干领域的教育，领导和管理角色。该计划还通过几个计划研讨会丰富了研究生的专业培训。