Sustainable Pathways from Community College to Bachelor's Degree for Urban Youth in STEM, Northern New Jersey

新泽西州北部城市青年 STEM 领域从社区学院到学士学位的可持续途径

• 批准号: 1643516
• 负责人: Alexander Gates
• 金额: $ 255.68万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University Newark
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1643516&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sustainable; Pathways; Community; College; Bachelor

Many academically talented students with demonstrated financial need must work while attending college. This severely limits their participation in activities designed to foster progress in their academic area of interest, which in turn affects academic success and social integration into college that fosters degree attainment. This project, "Sustainable Pathways from Community College to Bachelor's Degree for Urban Youth in STEM, Northern New Jersey," addresses this situation by creating an innovative approach that provides an ecosystem of financial support and opportunities for students from underserved urban populations to transfer from community college to a four-year institution. The project will provide a total of 295 year-long scholarships to at least 135 talented students who: are pursuing degrees in STEM, have demonstrated financial need, and come from underserved urban areas in New Jersey. The project builds on the Garden State Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) project and the Northern New Jersey Bridges to the Baccalaureate project. Scholars who receive scholarship support in this S-STEM project will be invited to participate in the highly successful activities established by these affiliated projects. Scholarships range from $8,000 for students at Rutgers University, Newark to $4,000 for students at the partnering community colleges (Essex County College, Hudson County Community College, and Passaic County Community College). The project's scholars will participate in a new pathway model that is designed to encourage their success, persistence, and transfer from community colleges to 4-year programs; and potentially continuing to graduate school and ultimately to pursuing careers in STEM. Recipients will be randomly selected to receive scholarships and participate in a research study focused on factors influencing their success. These factors include usage of time; self-efficacy, confidence, and aspirations; networking; academic performance; graduation, transfer, and career interest.

许多有经济需要的学术天才学生在上大学时必须工作。 这严重限制了他们参与旨在促进他们感兴趣的学术领域进步的活动，这反过来又影响了学术成功和社会融入大学，促进学位获得。该项目“北方新泽西STEM城市青年从社区学院到学士学位的可持续途径”通过创造一种创新方法来解决这一问题，该方法为来自服务不足的城市人口的学生提供经济支持和机会的生态系统，以从社区学院转入四年制大学。该项目将为至少135名有才华的学生提供295个为期一年的奖学金，这些学生正在攻读STEM学位，已证明有经济需求，并且来自新泽西服务不足的城市地区。该项目建立在花园州路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟（LSAMP）项目和北方新泽西桥梁学士学位项目的基础上。在这个S-STEM项目中获得奖学金支持的学者将被邀请参加这些附属项目建立的非常成功的活动。奖学金从罗格斯大学、纽瓦克大学的8,000美元到合作社区学院（埃塞克斯县学院、哈德逊县社区学院和帕塞伊克县社区学院）的4,000美元不等。 该项目的学者将参加一个新的途径模式，旨在鼓励他们的成功，坚持，并从社区学院转移到4年制课程;并可能继续研究生院，并最终追求在干的职业生涯。获奖者将被随机挑选获得奖学金，并参加一项研究，重点是影响他们成功的因素。这些因素包括时间的使用;自我效能，信心和愿望;网络;学术表现;毕业，转移和职业兴趣。