Academic and Social STEM Excellence for Transfer Students (ASSETS)

石溪大学工程与应用科学学院的技术与社会学系将建立一个S-STEM项目，题为“优秀的转学学生的学术和社会STEM”。该项目将为完成副学士学位并在SBU攻读STEM专业的学生提供奖学金支持。该项目将包含一个为期两周的数学沉浸计划，并将提供一个由咨询、职业和学术支持结构组成的网络。将收集数据以确定具体的学术过渡问题，使用基线数据将使我们能够确定为这项提议设计的干预措施的有效性。该项目包括奖学金支持、特定学科的学术支持、参与研究和职业准备(通过教师指导和实习)，以及项目评估和对该项目对学生学业表现、对S-STEM学科的坚持和态度的影响的评估。该项目的结果将增加帮助社区大学学生成功过渡到四年制院校的文献。拟议中的S-STEM项目将成为解决全国培养更多STEM学生需求的典范，并进一步增强美国和纽约大都会地区的经济竞争力。该模式说明了一种让学生参与STEM学科和职业的有效方式，并可以根据其他机构的情况进行调整，以扩大进入STEM学科的机会并使其脱颖而出。

The Department of Technology and Society in the Stony Brook University (SBU) College of Engineering and Applied Sciences will establish an S-STEM project, titled "Academic and Social STEM Excellence for Transfer Students". The project will provide scholarship support for students who have completed an Associate's degree and who enroll in a STEM major at SBU. The project will incorporate a two week mathematics immersion program and will also make available a network of advising, career, and academic support structures. Data will be collected to identify specific academic transition issues and the use of base-line data will allow us to determine the effectiveness of the interventions that have been designed for this proposal. The project integrates scholarship support, subject-specific academic support, engagement in research and career preparation (through faculty mentoring and internships), as well as program assessment and assessment of the impact of the program on students' academic performance, persistence in S-STEM disciplines, and attitudes. The results of the project will add to the literature of helping community college student achieve successful transitions to four year institutions. The proposed S-STEM project will be a model for addressing the Nation's needs for producing more STEM educated students and further enhance the economic competitiveness of the United States and the Metropolitan New York Regions. The model illustrates an effective way of engaging students in STEM disciplines and careers and could be adapted to other institutional contexts so as to expand access to and excellence in STEM disciplines.