Graduate and Transfer STEM Talent Expansion Program (GT-STEP)

毕业生和转学 STEM 人才扩展计划 (GT-STEP)

• 批准号: 1161231
• 负责人: Michael Chase
• 金额: $ 180万
• 依托单位: Montgomery College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1161231&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Graduate; Transfer; STEM; Talent; Expansion

The Graduate and Transfer STEM Talent Expansion Program at Montgomery College -- a public, culturally diverse, three-campus community college -- provides a systematic and comprehensive approach to increasing the number of students who attain an associate's degree and/or transfer to four-year institutions as STEM majors. Major foci of the program include 1) revision of gateway STEM courses to incorporate active-learning strategies and supplemental instruction, 2) engagement of students in research, within and beyond the classroom, early in their undergraduate years, and 3) technology-assisted mathematics tutoring for pre-calculus students. These core strategies are supported by enhanced academic advising and support, faculty and peer mentoring, a summer bridge program for entering students, and professional development of faculty and staff across the three campuses.Intellectual Merit: The project builds on well-established best practices for increasing retention in and recruitment of students into STEM degree and transfer programs. Project elements are being developed in parallel at each of the three Montgomery College campuses; project staff members then engage in system-wide dissemination and professional development of faculty and staff. Broader Impacts: The project is increasing the number of students who attain an associate's degree and/or transfer to four-year institutions as STEM majors, with particular emphasis on serving the diverse students and returning veterans who attend Montgomery College. In the longer term, the project enhances institutional capacity (e.g., curricular reform, support structures, and professional development) for continued support of increased STEM degree attainment and transfer. In addition, it is serving as a model approach to developing and integrating a systematic program across a multiple-campus community college, which informs institutions considering similar efforts elsewhere in the nation.

蒙哥马利学院的毕业生和转学STEM人才扩展计划是一所公立的、文化多样的三校区社区学院，它提供了一种系统和全面的方法，以增加获得副学士学位和/或转学到四年制院校的STEM专业的学生人数。该计划的主要重点包括：1）修改门户STEM课程，以纳入主动学习策略和补充教学，2）学生在本科早期参与课堂内外的研究，以及3）为微积分预科学生提供技术辅助的数学辅导。这些核心战略得到了加强的学术咨询和支持，教师和同行指导，入学学生的夏桥计划以及三个校区教职员工的专业发展的支持。智力优势：该项目建立在完善的最佳实践基础上，以提高STEM学位和转学课程的学生保留率和招聘率。蒙哥马利学院的三个校区都在同时制定项目内容;项目工作人员随后参与全系统的传播和教职员工的专业发展。更广泛的影响：该项目正在增加获得副学士学位和/或转学到四年制大学STEM专业的学生人数，特别强调为参加蒙哥马利学院的多样化学生和归国退伍军人提供服务。从长期来说，该项目提高了机构能力（例如，课程改革，支持结构和专业发展），以继续支持增加STEM学位的获得和转让。此外，它还作为一种模式，在多校区社区学院中开发和整合一个系统的项目，为考虑在全国其他地方进行类似努力的机构提供信息。