Sustaining Undergraduate Classroom and Career Excellence for STEM Students (SUCCESS) Project

在内布拉斯加州，推动州经济的12个产业集群中有7个与STEM相关。然而，内布拉斯加州的STEM雇主很难雇佣和留住高素质、技术熟练的员工，理由是“劳动力可获得性有限”是全州业务增长的主要劣势。多恩学院的STEM学生持续本科生课堂和职业卓越(SUCCESS)项目将向24名在该学院的生物、生物化学、化学、环境科学或物理项目中有经济需要的学业有天赋的学生颁发奖学金。通过增加STEM专业的招生人数并将学生与当地STEM行业联系起来，该项目将满足内布拉斯加州对高素质STEM劳动力的需求。该项目的技术优势在于其计划设计、实施、评估和推进支持STEM学生成功的实践，例如STEM生活和学习社区、四年毕业担保、共同课程结构、STEM研讨会和本科生研究经验。在一个高素质的PI团队的指导下，在强有力的机构支持下，Success项目将对STEM招聘活动进行评估，以促进对哪些活动在增加STEM学生大专入学方面最成功的了解。此外，该项目将在过去和目前EPSCoR资金的基础上，增加STEM学生的研究机会的数量和质量，并为STEM学生提供参与和出席专业STEM会议的机会。评估结果将在Doane社区内以及其他中学后机构和STEM专业人员中传播，以促进STEM学生招生、留住到毕业以及STEM职业准备和安置方面的知识和实践，从而有助于建立关于此类本科生奖学金项目和使其成功的基本要素的知识库。

In Nebraska, seven of the twelve industry clusters that drive the state economy are STEM-related. However, Nebraska STEM employers struggle to employ and retain highly qualified, technically skilled employees, citing "limited workforce availability" as the primary disadvantage to business growth statewide. Doane College's Sustaining Undergraduate Classroom and Career Excellence for STEM Students (SUCCESS) Project will award scholarships to 24 academically talented students with financial need in the college's biology, biochemistry, chemistry, environmental science, or physics program. Through increasing enrollment in STEM majors and connecting students to local STEM industries, the project will address Nebraska's need for a highly qualified STEM workforce.The technical merit of this project lies in its plan to design, implement, assess, and advance practices that support STEM student success, such as STEM living and learning communities, Four-Year Graduation Guarantees, common coursework structures, STEM workshops, and undergraduate research experiences. Guided by a highly qualified PI team, and with strong institutional support, the SUCCESS project will evaluate STEM recruitment activities in order to advance knowledge regarding which activities are most successful at increasing STEM student postsecondary enrollment. Moreover, the project will build on past and current EPSCoR funding to increase the number and quality of research opportunities for STEM students, as well as opportunities for STEM students to participate and present at professional STEM conferences. Evaluation findings will be disseminated within the Doane community and to other postsecondary institutions and STEM professionals in order to advance the knowledge and practice of STEM student recruitment, retention to graduation, and STEM career preparation and placement, thus contributing to the knowledge base about undergraduate scholarship projects of this type and underlying elements that make them successful.