Implementation Project: STEM Undergraduate Program to Promote Opportunities in Research and Training (SUPPORT)

传统黑人学院和大学的实施项目-本科项目为设计，实施，研究和评估全面的机构努力提供支持，通过加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究来增加学生人数和他们的准备质量。利文斯顿学院（Livingston College）是一所小型私立本科院校，该实施项目为招收STEM学位课程的学生提供了一种战略方法，并提供了一个支持系统，使他们能够保留并坚持到STEM专业毕业。利文斯顿学院为大多数低收入家庭的第一代学生提供服务。该项目由正在进行的评价以及内部和外部咨询委员会指导和提供信息。该项目旨在利用基于课程和课外的方法为学生选择的STEM专业做好准备，这些方法可以吸引学生，增强学习和发展技能。学习机会将包括基于项目的学习和过程技能实验室，教学上合理的指导和内容交付，学生科学和专业发展的研讨会和讲习班，以及工业职业和研究生院的探索。额外的数学、科学和计算机信息系统课程将重点放在主动和探究式学习上。STEM暑期桥梁项目将促进学术和社会融合，以促进学生适应大学生活，并加快在看门人课程中的学习成绩。通过聚集核心数学和科学课程，形成新生STEM学习社区。这个项目可以作为小型的、主要是本科院校的一个模式，这些院校实行开放招生政策，致力于为学生和他们的家庭提供教育机会。

Implementation Projects in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate program provide support to design, implement, study and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This implementation project at Livingston College, a small, private undergraduate institution, provides a strategic approach to recruit students into STEM degree programs and to provide a support system so that they are retained and persist toward graduation in a STEM major. Livingston College serves a majority of first-generation, low-income students. The project is guided and informed by an on-going evaluation, as well as by internal and external advisory committees.This project seeks prepare students in their selected STEM major using curricula-based and extra-curricular-based methodologies that engage students, enhance learning, and develop skills. Learning opportunities will include project based learning and process skills laboratories, pedagogically sound instruction and content delivery, seminars and workshops for student scientific and professional development, and exploration of industry careers and graduate school. Additional mathematics, science, and computer information systems courses will be developed with emphasis on active and inquiry-based learning. A STEM summer bridge program will foster academic and social integration to facilitate students' adjustment to college and accelerate academic performance in gatekeeper courses. A freshman STEM learning community will be formed by clustering core mathematics and science courses. This project can serve as a model for small, predominantly undergraduate institutions with an open enrollment policy committed to providing educational opportunities to students and their families.