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

得克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校(UTEP)的学生辅导：科学三合会计划(SMARTS)的主要目标是鼓励更多代表性不足和经济困难的学生继续攻读理科专业，及时完成学位，提高他们攻读高级学位的兴趣，并为他们提供必要的工具，使他们能够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，包括组建由一名教员、一名研究生和一名本科生(初级或高级)组成的指导团队，他们组成了指导三合会。该计划有三个主要目标：1)实现完全留住有才华但经济困难的理科本科生(三年级和四年级)，同时大幅减少他们毕业的时间；2)增加本科生，特别是代表人数不足的少数族裔成员，他们选择并准备攻读科学高级学位；以及3)招募更多的研究生成为科学教育工作者和研究导师。通过三合会的方法，本科生学习如何有效地在团队中工作，并从实践者那里学习未来几年的期望。研究生磨练他们的团队建设和指导技能，这在他们追求STEM领域的教育、领导和管理角色时是有价值的。该计划还通过几个计划研讨会丰富了研究生的专业培训。

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.