Scholarship Program to Increase Numbers and Strengthen the Workforce in Technology and Mathematics (SPIN+)

增加技术和数学领域人数并加强劳动力的奖学金计划（SPIN）

• 批准号: 1259473
• 负责人: Nancy Eaton
• 金额: $ 63.89万
• 依托单位: University of Rhode Island
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-15 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1259473&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarship; Program; Increase; Numbers; Strengthen

This project is designed to offer approximately 75 scholarships over the course of five years to talented undergraduates who are in financial need and who are majoring in computer science (CS), computer engineering (CE), or mathematics. These students are being supported through their studies and assisted in their transition to the workforce by making use of communities - both the fostering of a community of peers within these disciplines to support scholarship students through to graduation, and the connection of these students with the community outside the university to support their transition to the workforce. Intellectual Merit: The university is using the scholarship program to create within the existing university infrastructure a new model for finding, recruiting, supporting, graduating and placing into the workforce a wide variety of students talented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This model (1) seeks to identify STEM majors who may not have yet self-identified as such, (2) emphasizes to students the connection between undergraduate education and workforce placement, and (3) builds a network of peer support systems among undergraduates. This project is helping students maintain this network after graduation by using online social media (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn) to create interest groups that connect students to each other and the wider business community. The project is working with the admissions department and with community partners to find talented students with unmet financial needs, with special attention to those from underrepresented demographics, including those who may not have self-identified as STEM majors.Broader Impacts: Graduating a larger and more diverse workforce in computer science, computer engineering, and mathematics is leading to better problem-solving in these increasingly critical areas of STEM. Further, the university is leveraging the success of the project in graduating and placing students into the workforce to obtain long-term funding commitments from local and regional industry, education, and government partners to maintain the financial support necessary for the continuation of this program. The new paths within the university infrastructure being developed to recruit talented and diverse STEM students and to reduce attrition in these fields through more cohesive and coordinated support are permanently changing the university.

该项目旨在在五年的时间里为有经济需要的、主修计算机科学（CS）、计算机工程（CE）或数学的有才华的本科生提供大约75个奖学金。这些学生在学习过程中得到了支持，并通过利用社区帮助他们过渡到劳动力市场——既培养了这些学科内的同龄人社区，以支持奖学金学生毕业，又将这些学生与大学外的社区联系起来，以支持他们过渡到劳动力市场。智力优势：该大学正在利用奖学金计划在现有的大学基础设施中创建一种新的模式，用于寻找、招聘、支持、毕业并将在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域有才华的各种学生投入劳动力市场。该模型(1)寻求识别可能尚未自我认同的STEM专业学生，(2)向学生强调本科教育与劳动力安置之间的联系，以及(3)在本科生之间建立同伴支持系统网络。该项目旨在帮助学生在毕业后通过使用在线社交媒体（如Facebook、LinkedIn）创建兴趣小组，将学生彼此联系起来，并与更广泛的商业社区联系起来，从而维持这个网络。该项目正在与招生部门和社区合作伙伴合作，寻找经济需求未得到满足的有才华的学生，特别关注那些代表性不足的学生，包括那些可能不认为自己是STEM专业的学生。更广泛的影响：从计算机科学、计算机工程和数学专业毕业的更大、更多样化的劳动力，将有助于在这些日益关键的STEM领域更好地解决问题。此外，该大学正在利用该项目在毕业和安置学生进入劳动力市场方面的成功，从当地和区域工业、教育和政府合作伙伴那里获得长期资助承诺，以维持该项目继续发展所需的财政支持。大学基础设施内的新途径正在开发，以招募有才华和多样化的STEM学生，并通过更有凝聚力和协调的支持来减少这些领域的人员流失，这正在永久地改变着大学。