I-Corps L: SUNY Replication Project

通过美国国家科学基金会创新学习团计划（I-Corps L），该项目将设法扩大辅导、指导和咨询计划的规模和影响，帮助社区大学生完成副学士学位并成功转入四年制大学。增加进入、坚持和毕业STEM学位的学生数量和多样性；并大力帮助他们在STEM领域实习和就业安置，对于解决美国劳工部分类的63个STEM职业中严重的国家和州劳动力缺口至关重要。改善STEM教育途径，吸引和留住学生参与STEM项目，需要创造性的跨学科现实世界体验式学习策略，将技术整合到向21世纪的学习者传授和重申内容中。社区大学为增加STEM专业学生提供了一个特殊的机会。两年制大学是“大多数第一代大学生接受高等教育的起点，尤其是那些来自低收入、少数民族和移民背景的学生”。研究表明，这些学生中只有25%完成两年制学位并转学到四年制大学，只有17%完成学士学位。2000年，学士学位和超越社区学院指导计划（BBCCMP）成立，旨在帮助来自纽约州立大学（SUNY）六所社区学院的少数族裔，低收入和第一代社区学院学生从两年制大学过渡到四年制大学，并过渡到劳动力市场或研究生或专业学校。该项目包括两年制和四年制大学的辅导、指导和建议，以及一个夏季研究项目。在近15年的项目中，有300多名学生参与其中。这些学生中超过80%完成了副学士学位并转入四年制大学。这些学生中超过70%的人完成了学士学位，33%的人继续攻读研究生。I-Corps for Learning项目将设法将该项目的影响扩大到全国其他机构。购买学院的BBCCMP项目为学生提供广泛的支持。当学生从社区大学被录取时就开始了。社区学院的教师协调员确定并建议希望进入该计划的学生。此外，该计划还在社区大学提供同伴导师和导师。学生参加暑期研究项目，不仅提供研究机会，而且还提供技能建设，转移，职业和学士学位后的机会研讨会。学生还参与队列和职业建设。2010年，纽约州立大学复制项目在纽约州立大学的学士学位和超越计划的成功基础上创建了一个基于纽约的STEM生态系统。随后，成立了六个由两年制和四年制大学组成的区域中心，代表们在2012年的第二次会议上再次会面，扩大了与社区学院在学生过渡方面的合作。通过NSF I-Corps倡议，该项目将研究可持续的方法，将BBCCMP的成功推广到更多的机构。

Through the NSF Innovation Corps for Learning Program (I-Corps L), this project will develop ways to increase the scale and impact of a tutoring, mentoring, and advising program to help community college students to complete Associate's degrees and successfully transfer to four-year institutions. Increasing the number and diversity of students entering, persisting and graduating with STEM degrees; and significantly aiding them with STEM internships and job placements is imperative to solving the critical national and state workforce deficit that encompasses 63 STEM occupations categorized by the U. S. Department of Labor. Improving STEM education pathways to engage and retain students in STEM programs requires creative interdisciplinary real world experiential learning strategies that integrate technology in delivering and reiterating content to 21st century learners. Community colleges represent a special opportunity for increasing STEM majors. Two-year institutions are 'the entry point into higher education for most first-generation college students, particularly those from low-income, minority, and immigrant backgrounds'. Studies have shown that only 25 percent of these students complete a two-year degree and transfer to a four-year institution and only 17 percent complete a bachelor's degree. In 2000, the Baccalaureate and Beyond Community College Mentoring Program (BBCCMP) was founded to assist underrepresented minority, low income, and first generation community college students from six State University of New York (SUNY) community colleges with the transition from the two-year to four-year institutions and transitions either into the workforce or to graduate or professional school. The program involves tutoring, mentoring, and advising at the two and four-year institutions as well as a summer research program. In the almost fifteen years of the program, over 300 students have been involved. Over 80 percent of these students completed their Associate's degree and transferred to four-year institutions. Over 70 percent of these students are completing their bachelor's degree and 33 percent are going on for post-graduate work. This I-Corps for Learning project will develop ways to extend the impact of this program to other institutions throughout the country.The BBCCMP Program at Purchase College provides an extensive array of student supports. These begin when the student is recruited from the community college. Faculty coordinators at the community college identify and advise students who wish to enter the program. In addition, the program provides peer tutors and mentors at the community college. Students participate in a summer research program that not only provides research opportunities, but also has workshops on skills building, transferring, and career and post-baccalaureate opportunities. Students also participate in cohort and career building. In 2010 the SUNY Replication Project created a New York-based ecosystem in STEM based on the success of the Baccalaureate and Beyond Program within SUNY. Subsequently, six regional hubs comprising a mixture of two-year and four-year institutions were formed, and representatives met again at a second conference in 2012, to scale-up working with community colleges on student transitions. Through the NSF I-Corps initiative, this project will investigate sustainable methods to expand the success of BBCCMP to a larger number of institutions.