STEM Scholars Program

约翰逊县社区学院（JCCC）的“STEM学者”计划将为在JCCC注册理学副学士学位的学生提供30项奖学金，这些学生已证明有经济需要，并有能力和兴趣在STEM领域学习。 该项目将通过一个前所未有的计划，将整个校园的部门和办公室聚集在一起，为学生发展必要的学生服务和队列建设活动的支持网络。该项目团队将领导一个协调的努力，包括机构研究，财政援助，招生和咨询，学生服务和区域STEM教育组织的JCCC办公室。 该项目将重点关注个别教师对帮助社区大学学生成功转入大学的影响，研究奖学金学生，特别是STEM专业的女性和代表性不足的少数民族学生的招聘，保留，毕业和转学率的增加。该项目将通过研究帮助STEM学生坚持到STEM专业大学毕业的方法，为STEM教育文献做出贡献。 项目团队将评估以STEM为重点的辅导员，社区学院STEM学生的研究机会以及社区学院和大学STEM教师之间的合作对留住STEM专业学生并帮助他们成功继续四年制STEM学位的影响。 这个项目将为其他社区学院建立一个可复制的模式，使它们能够取得类似的成果。

The "STEM Scholars" program at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) will provide 30 scholarships to students enrolling in the Associate Degree of Science at JCCC who have demonstrated financial need and an aptitude and interest in studying in a STEM field. This project will develop a support network of student services and cohort-building activities necessary for students through an unprecedented program that brings together departments and offices across campus. The project team will lead a coordinated effort encompassing the JCCC offices of Institutional Research, Financial Aid, Admissions and Counseling, Student Services and regional STEM education organizations. The project will focus on the impact that individual faculty have on helping community college students successfully transfer to universities.The project will study the increase on recruitment, retention, graduation, and transfer rates for scholarship students, particularly women and underrepresented minority students in STEM majors. The project will contribute to the literature on STEM education by studying what works in helping STEM students persist to university graduation in a STEM major. The project team will evaluate the effect that STEM-focused counselors, research opportunities for community college STEM students, and collaboration among community college and university STEM faculty can have on retaining students in STEM majors and aiding them in successfully continuing on for a four-year STEM degree. This project will establish a replicable model for other community colleges so that they can achieve similar results.