Emerging STEM Scholars

坦普尔大学的“新兴STEM学者”计划将通过为48 - 60名生物学，生物化学或化学专业的学术天才和经济困难的学生提供四年的直接学术支持来解决STEM保留和成功问题。 学生将在大一入学，这是他们最有可能遇到学习困难和改变专业的时候。 该计划将利用现有的学术支持结构，并将学生与坦普尔的第一个科学学习社区的特定课程内容联系起来。 一个三层的指导计划（本科生同行，研究生和教师）将提供支持学者在他们的学术生涯从进入该机构毕业。 学者们将获得行业科学家和科学职业信息，这将补充学术支持和研究机会。该项目将基于Tinto的学生保留理论，强调结构支持和基于内容的教学支持。将收集数据，以确定什么“作品”最好，与什么类型的学生，以及何时。 该项目进行的研究将是横向和纵向的，并将被设计为测试个人和累积的贡献的程序元素。 该研究还将分析随时间推移发生的任何效应量衰减。 四个数据源将提供一个学术“地图”，将用于确定需要保持成功的进展，按时四年制学位的模式。 由此产生的知识将被用作坦普尔和其他大学机构转型的基础。

The "Emerging STEM Scholars" program at Temple University will address STEM retention and success by providing direct academic support for four years to 48 - 60 academically talented and economically disadvantaged students majoring in biology, biochemistry, or chemistry. Students will be enrolled in the program during their freshman year, when they are most likely to encounter academic difficulties and change majors. The program will utilize existing academic support structures and will connect students with specific program content in Temple's first science learning community. A three tiered mentoring program (undergraduate peers, graduate students, and faculty) will provide support to scholars over their academic career from entry into the institution to graduation. Scholars will be given access to industry scientists and science career information that will complement academic support and research opportunities.The project will be based on Tinto's theory of student retention emphasizing both structural supports and content-based and pedagogical supports. Data will be collected to determine what "works" the best, with what type of student, and when. Research conducted by this project will be both cross-sectional and longitudinal, and will be designed to test the individual and cumulative contributions of the program elements. The study will also analyze any effect size decay that occurs over time. Four data sources will provide an academic "map" that will be used to identify patterns that are needed to maintain successful progress to an on-time four-year degree. The resulting knowledge will be used as the basis for institutional transformation at Temple and other universities.