Rewarding Excellence For Leaders in Engineering, Computer Science, Technology, and Science

奖励工程、计算机科学、技术和科学领域的杰出领导者

• 批准号: 1644008
• 负责人: JoDe Lavine
• 金额: $ 64.99万
• 依托单位: Bunker Hill Community College
• 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: 2017-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1644008&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rewarding; Excellence; Leaders; Engineering; Computer

This project at Bunker Hill Community College in Massachusetts will test and document effective practices for utilizing scholarships as a bridge from two-year to four-year science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs for academically talented and low-income community college students and serve as a model for other institutions that are addressing this important national issue. The successful efforts of the college in developing articulation agreements in the targeted disciplines with regional four-year programs will ensure that scholarship recipients have significant opportunities to pursue a four-year degree. A priority of this project is recruiting students who reflect the diversity of the student body at the college, with a focus on women and students of color, in order to prepare them for baccalaureate degrees and high-demand technical careers in STEM. This program will build on a successful prior S-STEM scholarship grant, making it possible for the college to further study and document the model in order to disseminate data-driven analyses of effective practices to other community colleges and universities. Rewarding Excellence For Leaders in Engineering, Computer Science, Technology, and Science (REFLECTS) will serve academically talented students with demonstrated financial need through scholarships and other support to assist students in completing associate and baccalaureate degrees in STEM majors. Scholarships will support students for two years of study, one year at the community college and one year at a four-year program of the students' choice. The project will employ best practices by implementing intrusive advising by faculty mentors as well as additional supports to assure that students complete their plan of study. The project will also measure the impacts of intrusive faculty mentoring and other activities/supports with the goal of refining the project design, documenting effective practices, and creating a replicable and scalable model that could be adopted by others. Of particular interest are rates of persistence by scholars and completion of associate and baccalaureate degrees. Additionally, the project will provide a faculty mentor, academic support, leadership opportunities, and support related to securing internships and the transfer process to participating students. The objectives of the project are to (a) award 40 REFLECTS scholarships (10 new students per year) for two semesters to academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who are pursuing an associate degree in one of the targeted STEM programs of study; (b) continue scholarship support for REFLECTS Scholars for two additional semesters after transfer as they pursue their baccalaureate degree; (c) create a cohort of REFLECT scholars which reflects the current demographics of the institution; (d) retain at least 90% of REFLECTS scholars to graduation or transfer from the community college and subsequent graduation from their selected-four year institution; (e) provide faculty mentoring for academic planning assistance to REFLECTS Scholars; (f) provide faculty mentoring for assistance with the transfer process to 100% of program graduates as they prepare to transfer to a four-year institution; (g) continue faculty mentoring for program graduates after transfer to four-year institutions; and (h) study the impact of the faculty mentorship activities as they relate to the success of scholars in securing of internships and transferring to four-year institutions.

该项目在马萨诸塞州的掩体山社区学院将测试和记录有效的做法，利用奖学金作为桥梁，从两年到四年的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）计划的学术人才和低收入社区学院的学生，并作为一个模型，为其他机构正在解决这一重要的国家问题。学院在与区域四年制课程的目标学科制定衔接协议的成功努力将确保奖学金获得者有重要的机会攻读四年制学位。该项目的一个优先事项是招收学生谁反映在学院的学生群体的多样性，重点是妇女和有色人种的学生，以准备他们的学士学位和高需求的技术职业在干。该计划将建立在成功的S-STEM奖学金的基础上，使学院能够进一步研究和记录该模型，以便将有效实践的数据驱动分析传播给其他社区学院和大学。奖励卓越的领导者在工程，计算机科学，技术和科学（反射）将通过奖学金和其他支持，以帮助学生完成副学士和学士学位的STEM专业表现出的经济需要学术才华的学生。奖学金将支持学生两年的学习，一年在社区学院和一年在学生选择的四年计划。该项目将采用最佳实践，通过实施教师导师的侵入性建议以及额外的支持，以确保学生完成他们的学习计划。该项目还将衡量侵入式教师指导和其他活动/支持的影响，目标是完善项目设计，记录有效的做法，并创建一个可复制和可扩展的模型，可以被其他人采用。特别令人感兴趣的是学者的坚持率和完成副学士和学士学位的比率。此外，该项目将提供教师导师，学术支持，领导机会，以及与确保实习和参与学生转移过程相关的支持。该项目的目标是：（a）颁发40份REFLECTS奖学金;（每年10名新生）两个学期的学术才华的学生证明谁是追求副学士学位的研究目标STEM课程之一的经济需要;（B）继续奖学金支持REFLECTS学者为两个额外的学期后转移，因为他们追求他们的学士学位;（c）建立一个反映机构目前人口结构的REFLECTS学者队列;（d）保留至少90%的REFLECTS学者，以毕业或从社区学院转学，随后从他们选择的四年制机构毕业;（e）为REFLECTS学者提供学术规划援助的教师指导;（f）为100%准备转入四年制院校的课程毕业生提供教师指导，以协助他们完成转学过程;（g）在课程毕业生转入四年制院校后继续为他们提供教师指导;及（h）研究导师制活动对学生成功获得实习机会及转往四年制院校的影响。