Achieving Community College Excellence, Success and Scholarship (ACCESS) in Engineering and Computer Science

国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金(S-STEM)项目设在马里兰州罗克维尔的蒙哥马利学院，将为工程和计算机科学专业的有学术天赋的学生提供奖学金和支持服务，这些学生表现出经济上的需求。该项目将解决对更多工程和计算机科学专业人员的需求，以及增加这些专业人员来自这些领域代表性不足的群体的需要。蒙哥马利学院实现社区学院工程和计算机科学S-STEM卓越、成功和奖学金(ACCESS)计划的主要目标将包括增加获得工程和计算机科学学士学位的社区学院学生的数量，并为从社区学院过渡到四年制院校的学生开发可扩展的工程教育模式。学生将从高中和大学水平的数学和科学课程中招募，并根据认知和非认知与学业成功的相关性表现出的学术潜力进行挑选。为期五年的ACCESS项目将提供136个奖学金，并通过扩大最佳做法和加强目前的做法，包括高中外展、密集的教员和同行支持、本科生研究机会、转学支持，以及与选定的四年制工程学院达成的强有力的衔接协议和方案改进，提供136个奖学金和支持五批学生。在整个项目中，将通过对多个数据来源的分析来评估其成功，包括对学生支助服务的评估、学生技能发展以及学生对面试和焦点小组问题的反应。该项目预计将有助于理解成功的学生奖学金和支持计划的特点和做法，如综合的、基于探究的教学方法；学生支持系统；结构化的两年/四年计划衔接；以及转学和职业建议。

This National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland will provide scholarships and support services to academically-talented students majoring in engineering and computer science who demonstrate financial need. The project will address the need for larger numbers of engineering and computer science professionals, as well as the need to increase the proportion of these professionals who are from groups underrepresented in these fields.Main goals of the Achieving Community College Excellence, Success and Scholarship (ACCESS) in Engineering and Computer Science S-STEM program at Montgomery College will include increasing the number of community college students who earn bachelor's degrees in engineering and computer science, and contributing to the development of a scalable engineering education model for students transitioning from community colleges to four-year institutions. Students will be recruited from high schools and college-level math and science courses, and selected based on academic potential demonstrated via cognitive and non-cognitive correlates of academic success. The five-year ACCESS project will provide 136 scholarships and support five cohorts of students by expanding on best practices and building on current practices involving high school outreach, intensive faculty and peer support, undergraduate research opportunities, transfer support, and strong articulation agreements and programmatic enhancements with select four-year engineering colleges. Throughout the project, its success will be evaluated via analyses of multiple data sources, including assessments of student support services, student skills development, and student responses to interview and focus group questions. The project is expected to contribute to understanding attributes and practices of successful student scholarship and support programs, such as integrated, inquiry-based instructional methodologies; student support systems; structured two-year/four-year program articulations; and transfer and career advising.