Expanding the STEM Pool With Transfer Scholarships (ESP)

德克萨斯农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂科学与工程学院（TAMU-CC）是一所为西班牙裔服务的机构，在少数族裔和女学生入学率较高的地区社区学院的支持下，向在TAMU-CC转入计算机科学、工程和数学专业的有学术天赋和经济困难的社区学院学生提供奖学金，使他们能够完成学士学位。“通过转学奖学金扩大STEM奖学金池”（ESP）计划从拥有大量拉美裔学生的地区社区学院招募26名大学生作为ESP奖学金获得者。这个为期五年的项目是一个招聘工具，为每个ESP学者提供长达三年的资金，可以通过其他奖学金和经济援助来增加。该项目在现有的学生服务基础设施（指导、学术建议、研究机会、职业咨询、专业发展）中通过学习社区队列体验来留住学者，并辅以为转校生量身定制的支持服务，如旨在减轻转校生冲击的迎新课程。至少有26名计算机科学、工程和数学专业的学士学位毕业生正在培养中，其中许多人来自代表性不足的群体，从而增加了美国在这些关键领域专业劳动力的多样性。所有学生都被鼓励通过利用NSF LSAMP和其他本科生研究项目继续读研究生。有些人可能会攻读博士学位，并成为未来科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学生的榜样。

The College of Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC), a Hispanic-Serving Institution, with the support of area community colleges who have high enrollments of minority and female students, is providing scholarships to academically talented and financially needy community college students transferring into computer science, engineering, and mathematics majors at TAMU-CC, to allow them to complete a baccalaureate degree. "Expanding the STEM Pool with Transfer Scholarships" (ESP) is recruiting twenty-six college students from regional community colleges with large Hispanic student populations as ESP Scholars. The five-year project is a recruitment tool providing each ESP Scholar up to three years of funding, which may be augmented by other scholarships and financial aid. The project is retaining scholars through a learning-community cohort experience within an existing infrastructure of student services (mentoring, academic advising, research opportunities, career counseling, professional development) augmented by support services tailored for transfer students, such as an orientation course designed to alleviate transfer shock. At least twenty-six graduates with B.S. degrees in computer science, engineering, and mathematics are being produced, many from underrepresented groups, thereby increasing the diversity of the nation's professional workforce in these critical fields. All students are being encouraged to continue to graduate school by leveraging NSF LSAMP and other undergraduate research programs. Some may pursue doctoral degrees and serve as role models for future Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) students.