Attract, Retain, and Graduate Young LifE Scientists (ARGYLES)

Rivier大学的“吸引，留住和毕业的年轻生命科学家（ARGYLES）”项目将支持和吸引生物学专业的学生成为新兴科学家，他们将为东北部STEM管道的活力做出贡献。 该计划将招募和招收10名低收入，学术才华的学生（两个队列各5名），并将提供四年的奖学金。 ARGYLES将加强Rivier的生物学社区，并建立一个信心和动力的反馈循环，帮助学生学习科学并将自己确定为科学家，这是坚持STEM学科毕业的两个关键标准。 该计划的目标是90%的学者完成生物学课程的前两年，80%将保留到毕业。 毕业后，学生将继续研究生院或在STEM领域找到工作。 招聘工作将集中在低收入，代表性不足的少数民族和第一代学生。 通过使用持久性框架，培养学生的专业认同，信心和成功的动力，该项目将提供一种创新的，综合的方法来建立社区，使学生能够得到同行，教师和其他学术资源的支持。 在心理学系社会科学研究员和外部评估员的指导下，项目评估将检查这些方案战略的有效性，并将产生可用于支持持续方案编制和向其他部门和机构传播的证据。 该项目将有利于个人奖学金获得者，但将有助于塑造Rivier的STEM学术和支持系统，因为该大学专注于建设社区和促进全球参与。

The "Attract, Retain, and Graduate Young Life Scientists (ARGYLES)" project at Rivier University will support and engage students majoring in biology as emergent scientists who will contribute to the vitality of the STEM pipeline in the Northeast. The program will recruit and enroll 10 low-income, academically talented students (five each in two cohorts) and will provide scholarships for four years. ARGYLES will strengthen the biology community at Rivier and create a feedback loop of confidence and motivation to help students both learn science and identify themselves as scientists, two key criteria for persistence to graduation in STEM disciplines. The goal of the program will be for 90% of scholars to complete their first two years of the biology program, and 80% will be retained until graduation. Upon graduation students will either continue to graduate school or find employment in a STEM field. Recruitment efforts will focus on low-income, underrepresented minority, and first-generation students. Through the use of a persistence framework that fosters students' professional identification, confidence, and motivation to succeed, the project will provide an innovative, integrated approach to building community that enables students to be supported by peers, faculty, and other academic resources. With guidance from a social science researcher from the Department of Psychology and an external evaluator, the project evaluation will examine the effectiveness of these program strategies and will generate evidence that can be used to support sustained programming and propagation to other departments and institutions. The project will benefit both individual scholarship recipients, but will contribute to shaping Rivier's STEM academic and support systems as the university focuses on building community and promoting global engagement.