Project SOAR: Scholarships, Opportunities, Achievements, and Results

项目SOAR正在招聘，保留和毕业的学术人才的学生从生物科学，化学，物理和地质学，数学和统计学，或计算机科学系的专业。 目前正在组织四批学生，从大一开始有17名学者，从大二到大四继续得到15名学者的支持。 该项目的多学科性质是支持参与学科的教师之间的合作。SOAR学者以各种方式获得支持，以确保他们的学术成功;这些服务包括加强教师指导，为期一年的新生研讨会，STEM学习社区，STEM生活社区，同伴辅导和同伴辅导。 SOAR学生正在提供强大的本科研究机会，实习和合作社，该项目正在由内部和外部顾问委员会提供信息。SOAR项目是围绕提高低收入，第一代学生的保留率和毕业率的有效实践而设计的。 该项目正在增加STEM中代表性不足的群体成员的参与，并增加STEM毕业生的数量，这将有助于缓解该地区的需求。 该项目正在通过多种评估和评价模式生成数据，这些数据将为招聘做法、第一年课程设计、特定学科学习社区的使用和学术支持服务方面的体制变革提供信息。

Project SOAR is recruiting, retaining, and graduating academically talented students as majors from the departments of biological sciences, chemistry, physics and geology, mathematics and statistics, or computer science. Four cohorts of students are being organized, beginning with 17 scholars in the freshman year and with continuing support of 15 scholars for the cohorts from their sophomore through senior years. The multi-disciplinary nature of the project is supporting collaborations between faculty in the participating disciplines.SOAR scholars are being supported in a variety of ways to ensure their academic success; these services include enhanced faculty mentoring, year-long freshman seminar, STEM learning communities, a STEM living community, peer tutoring, and peer mentoring. SOAR students are being offered strong undergraduate research opportunities, internships, and co-ops and the project is being informed by both internal and external advisory boards.The SOAR project is coherently designed around effective practices for increasing retention and graduation rates for low-income, first-generation students. The project is increasing the participation of members of groups underrepresented in STEM and is increasing the number of STEM graduates that will contribute to alleviating the region's needs. The project is producing data via multiple modes of assessment and evaluation that will inform institutional changes in recruiting practices, design of first-year courses, use of discipline-specific learning communities, and academic support services.