Academic Integrity Management (AIM) of a collaborative three year computer science degree program

【摘要】本项目由美国国家科学基金会的“毕业生10K+”专项资助，部分由英特尔基金会和通用电气基金会资助，旨在促进大学和学院的综合行动，以帮助在未来十年中将工程和计算机科学专业的新学士学位毕业生的数量增加10,000人。加州州立大学蒙特利湾分校（CSUMB）和哈特内尔学院评估了在计算机科学领域寻求教育机会的弱势学生所面临的挑战。考虑到现有的障碍和资源，CSUMB和Hartnell致力于开发三年制学士学位课程，并提供重要的学生支持结构和经济援助，以改善结果。该项目包括以下特点：2年制和4年制大学之间的合作，其中学生主要在哈特内尔完成前1.5年的课程，最后1.5年主要在CSUMB完成；o通过暑期桥梁项目提高学生的大学准备水平；o将学生组织成从入学到转学和毕业都保持不变的队列；o透过甄别学生的学术需要及提供支援服务，提供持续的学术支援；o透过工作坊及实习安排，提供职业发展支援；o提供奖学金支持，消除学生寻找外部就业的需要。o与外部评估人员一起执行详细的评估计划，以研究项目组成部分的表现。此外，该项目还获得了当地非营利组织松井基金会（Matsui Foundation）的承诺，该基金会将提供大量资金，为学生提供全额奖学金。该计划的智力价值在于实施一个为期三年的计算机科学/信息技术理学学士学位课程，以成功地吸引、留住、转移和研究生来自弱势群体和代表性不足的群体。该项目包含三个关键组成部分：(1)加速的三年时间框架，(2)社区学院和大学之间的合作，以及(3)基于群体的学习模式。通过加速项目、学生奖学金、学生队列和利用计算机科学支持项目的结合，项目的广泛影响体现在增加了150名代表性不足和弱势学生获得计算机科学的机会和成功。该项目的评估数据和最佳实践的传播也为教育领导者提供了大量信息，以复制合作的三到四年途径，利用多个机构的资源来提高计算机科学和STEM学生的保留率和毕业率。

ABSTRACTThis project is being supported under a special funding focus for STEP, "Graduate 10K+," an activity of the National Science Foundation, supported in part by donations from the Intel Foundation and the GE Foundation, to stimulate comprehensive action at universities and colleges to help increase the annual number of new B.S. graduates in engineering and computer science by 10,000 over the next decade.California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and Hartnell College have assessed the challenges facing underrepresented and disadvantaged students seeking educational opportunities in computer science. Given the obstacles and the resources available, CSUMB and Hartnell committed to developing a three-year bachelor's degree option coupled with significant student support structures and financial assistance as a way to improve outcomes. The project is incorporating the following features:o Collaboration between a 2- and 4- year college, in which students are completing the first 1.5 years of the program primarily at Hartnell and the final 1.5 years primarily at CSUMB; o Improving the college-readiness of students through a summer bridge program;o Organizing students into cohorts that are maintained from enrollment through transfer and graduation;o Providing ongoing academic support through identification of academic needs and provision of support services;o Delivering career development support through workshops and internship placements;o Providing scholarship support that eliminates the need for students to seek outside employment.o Executing a detailed evaluation plan with an external evaluator to study the performance of project components. Additionally, the project has secured a commitment from the Matsui Foundation, a local non-profit organization, to provide significant funding that supports full scholarships for students.The intellectual merit of the project lies in its implementation of a three-year Bachelor of Science degree program in computer science/information technology (CSIT) to successfully attract, retain, transfer, and graduate students from disadvantaged and underrepresented populations. The project incorporates three critical components: (1) an accelerated three-year time frame, (2) collaboration between a community college and a university, and (3) a cohort-based learning model. The project's broader impacts are felt in the increased access to computer science and success of 150 underrepresented and disadvantaged students, through the combination of an accelerated program, student scholarships, student cohorts, and leveraging computer science support programs. Dissemination of evaluation data and best practices from this project are also providing substantial information to education leaders to duplicate collaborative three or four year pathways that utilize resources of multiple institutions to increase retention and graduation of students in computer science and STEM.