Supporting Transfers to Reach Educational Aspirations in Math and Science

弗雷斯诺太平洋大学（FPU）的支持数学和科学教育愿望的转移（STREAMS）计划将以增加获得科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学士学位的社区学院转校生的数量为目标，并将建立在大学和红杉学院（COS）之间现有的合作伙伴关系之上。STREAMS将识别有经济需求的有学术天赋的社区大学学生，并招募这些学生转到大学的数学、生物、化学或环境科学专业。该项目将加强社区大学和四年制大学之间的STEM合作，并通过以这些群体为重点的招聘工作，增加传统上在STEM中代表性不足的人群（包括第一代、西班牙裔和低收入学生）的STEM毕业生数量。这样做将增加这些群体中年轻成员的STEM榜样数量，并推进有关有效的STEM奖学金计划和为来自代表性不足群体的转学生提供学生支持服务的研究和实践。该项目将使该大学能够继续发展、应用、评估和推进理论和实践，以提高社区学院转校生的STEM学士学位成就，如明确的转学协议、队列建设活动、指导、过渡到大学的规划、高年级STEM辅导、学习小组和毕业保证。大学将加强学生支持结构，以确保至少85%的学者在转学到大学的两年内获得学士学位。该项目将加强一些现有的学生支持服务，以及通过针对STEM学生的标题V西班牙裔服务机构资助计划合作发起的服务。这些改进将包括形成队列，为学者提供两年的毕业保证，为学者设计的特别研讨会，强大的师生指导，高年级STEM辅导，STEM保留策略和补充指导。它将使至少80%的S-STEM学生在毕业一年内找到工作或进入STEM领域的研究生课程。STREAMS将通过提供关键的支持服务和活动，包括一对一的STEM职业咨询、GRE准备、在当地STEM企业的工作见习、实习和研究机会、到STEM企业和研究生院的实地考察，以及与STEM行业专家的研讨会，更好地为STEM学生做好就业或研究生课程的准备。

The Supporting Transfers in Reaching Educational Aspirations in Math and Science (STREAMS) Program at Fresno Pacific University (FPU) will target increasing the number of community college transfer students who obtain science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) baccalaureate degrees and will build on an existing partnership between the university and the College of the Sequoias (COS). STREAMS will identify a diverse population of academically talented community college students with financial need and recruit these students to transfer to math, biology, chemistry, or environmental science program at the university. This project will enhance STEM collaborations between a community college and a four-year institution and increase the number of STEM graduates from populations traditionally underrepresented in STEM including first-generation, Hispanic, and low-income students through recruitment efforts that focus on these groups. In so doing it will increase the number of STEM role models for the younger members of these groups and advance research and practice regarding effective STEM scholarship programs and student support services for transfer students from underrepresented groups. The project will enable the university to continue to develop, apply, evaluate, and advance theories and practices that increase STEM baccalaureate degree attainment among community college transfer students such as articulated transfer agreements, cohort building activities, mentoring, transition-to-university programming, upper-division STEM tutoring, study groups, and graduation guarantees. The university will augment student support structures to ensure that at least 85% of the scholars obtain a baccalaureate degree within two years of transferring to the university. The project will enhance a number of existing student support services as well as services initiated through a collaboration on a Title V Hispanic Serving Institutions grant program targeting STEM students. These enhancements will include the formation of cohorts, two-year Graduation Guarantees for scholars, a special seminar designed for scholars, robust faculty-student mentoring, upper division STEM tutoring, STEM retention strategies, and Supplemental Instruction. It will enable at least 80% of S-STEM scholars to secure employment or enter a graduate program in a STEM field within one year of graduation. STREAMS will better prepare STEM students for the workforce or graduate programs by providing key support services and activities, including one-on-one STEM career counseling, GRE preparation, job shadowing at local STEM businesses, internship and research opportunities, field trips to STEM businesses and graduate schools, and workshops with STEM industry experts.