Increasing Diversity in the Sciences II

阿勒格尼学院的这个S-STEM项目将为14名自然科学本科生提供为期四年的奖学金。通过支持有学术天赋、经济困难的学生的教育和培训，该项目正在帮助满足当地和区域在研究和技术领域的就业需求，并为其他面临类似挑战的机构提供经验教训。符合条件的学生是根据他们在STEM领域的兴趣、学术潜力和经济需求从高中申请者中挑选出来的。奖学金学生得到学术和队列支持，这是建立在学院现有支持结构的基础上的。学术支持包括联合咨询部分，每个学生都有一名首席调查人员作为学术顾问，此外还有一名来自学术支持办公室的全职专业人员担任联合顾问。奖学金获得者还将在开课前参加为期一周的学术充实计划。队列支持是围绕生活和学习社区(LLC)构建的，其中包括在指定居住大厅的同一楼层提供住房，定期午餐(第一年每两周一次，之后每月一次)以及支持办公室、职业服务机构、理科教职员工和学生以及其他人员的演讲。每名学生还定期与阿勒格尼学院多样性办公室主任和助理主任保持联系。这些人还与两名主要调查人员、学术支持中心主任和经济援助主任一起担任管理团队的成员。

This S-STEM project at Allegheny College is providing scholarships for fourteen undergraduates in the Natural Sciences for four years. Through its support for the education and training of academically talented, financially needy students, the project is helping to meet local and regional employment needs in research and technical fields, as well as serving as a source of lessons learned for other institutions facing similar challenges.Several features of the project's implementation stand out. Eligible students are being selected from a pool of high school applicants based on their interest in STEM fields, academic potential, and financial need. Scholarship students receive academic and cohort support, which builds on the College's existing support structure. Academic support includes a co-advising component by which each student has one of the principal investigators as an academic advisor in addition to one of the full-time professional staff from the academic support office serving as a co-advisor. Scholarship recipients are also participating in a one-week academic enrichment program prior to the start of classes. Cohort support is being structured around a Living and Learning Community (LLC), which includes housing on the same floor of a designated residence hall, regular lunches (biweekly during the first year and monthly thereafter) along with presentations from support offices, career services, science faculty and students, and other personnel. Each student is also having regular contact with the Director and the Assistant Director of Allegheny College's diversity office. These individuals also serve as members of the management team along with the two principal investigators, the director of the academic support center, and the director of financial aid.