Holyoke Community College STEM Scholars Program

美国国家科学基金会在马萨诸塞州霍利奥克社区学院的科学、技术、工程和数学（S-STEM）奖学金项目将招募、保留和鼓励有学术天赋、经济困难的学生完成他们的副学士学位并继续他们的教育。为了满足地区和国家对STEM劳动力的需求，多达20名学者将接触到旨在激励他们成为工程师、化学家、数学家和物理学家的学术环境。这些学者将参加STEM 101课程，其中包括一门基于Complete College America开发“元专业”模式的课程，以帮助学生选择合理的学术专业，缩短完成学位的时间。学生还可以选择参加研讨会活动，其中包括演讲和实地考察，以转移大学和行业合作伙伴，大学成功研讨会和多元化培训。此外，将鼓励在职学者在大学入学活动中担任大使，并为新学者提供支持。研究表明，STEM专业的学生必须接触到一个强大的学习环境。因此，PI团队制定了一个全面的计划，为社区大学学生转学到四年制学校提供学术支持服务、指导、职业咨询和帮助。STEM 101课程将为学生提供积极的第一年STEM学习体验，包括内容、体验式学习和STEM职业探索。此外，系列研讨会将帮助学生融入大学生活。形成性评估将用于解决项目中需要改进的方面，评估学生的参与和支持，并通过修改版本的社区学院学生参与调查来审查学术挑战。总结性评估将包括分析学生对积极学习社区的态度和看法（调查和访谈），提高STEM学科意识的活动以及学业进步。评估结果将提交给《社区学院学报》和《社区学院时报》等期刊，这样做有助于扩大关于这类奖学金成功颁发的情况的知识库。

This NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts will recruit, retain, and encourage academically talented, financially needy, students to complete their associate's degrees and continue their education. In order to address regional and national STEM workforce needs, as many as 20 scholars will be exposed to an academic climate meant to inspire them to become engineers, chemists, mathematicians, and physicists. The scholars will participate in a STEM 101 course, which includes a curriculum is based on Complete College America's model for developing "meta majors" to help students choose reasonable academic majors and reduce time to degree completion. Students will also have the option to attend seminar activities, which will include speakers and field trips to transfer universities and industry partners, college success workshops, and diversity training. Moreover, continuing scholars will be encouraged to act as ambassadors in college access activities, as well as champions for new scholars.Research shows that STEM majors must be exposed to a robust learning environment. Thus, the PI team has created a comprehensive plan for academic support services, mentoring, career counseling, and assistance for community college student transfer to four year schools. The STEM 101 course will offer students a positive first year STEM learning experience that introduces content, experiential learning, and STEM career exploration. Additionally, the seminar series will help integrate students into the life of the college. Formative evaluation will be used to address aspects of the project that need improvement, assess student engagement and support, and review academic challenges through a modified version of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement. Summative evaluation will consist of an analysis of student attitudes and perceptions (surveys and interviews) regarding the active learning community, activities to improve STEM discipline awareness, and academic progress. Dissemination of the results of evaluation will be submitted to journals such as the Community College Journal, and the Community College Times, and, in so doing, help to expand the knowledge base regarding the circumstances under which scholarship awards of this type are successful.