The Strategic Undergraduate STEM Talent Acceleration Initiative (SUSTAIN)

锡拉丘兹大学的“战略本科生STEM人才加速计划”项目将解决招收和留住来自不同背景的高成就、低收入学生进入本科生STEM项目的挑战。该计划将授予30,000美元的奖学金，为期两年，并将提供一个连贯的学术、社会和职业支持服务系统，旨在战略上提高生物和化学学生在本科一年级和二年级的成功。该计划的目标包括保留最初的30名学生中至少90%的人在大一后打算或声明为STEM专业，并在参加可持续发展计划的第二年后保留至少80%的学生作为STEM专业的声明。该计划将建立STEM教师专业发展研讨会，旨在促进实施尖端教学实践，在STEM入门课程中支持动态、主动的学习方法。学生将获得360度全方位的支持计划，以满足他们在大一和大二期间不断发展的学术、社交和职业发展需求。研究工作将调查整个项目中学者的社会化经验，以检查多方面系列干预支持的有效性，以评估它们对学生未来STEM轨迹的影响。该项目的结果将促进确定有希望的方法，确定项目完善的领域，并导致开发一种可持续的模式，为STEM专业提供综合性的学术和社会支持服务，可以在其他校园复制。

The "Strategic Undergraduate STEM Talent Acceleration Initiative" (SUSTAIN) project at Syracuse University will address the challenges of recruiting and retaining high-achieving, low-income students from diverse backgrounds into undergraduate STEM programs. The SUSTAIN program will award thirty $10,000 scholarships for up to two years, and will provide a coherent system of academic, social, and career support services strategically designed to enhance the success of biology and chemistry students during their first and second years of undergraduate study. Program goals include retaining at least 90% of the initial cohort of 30 scholars as intended or declared STEM majors following their freshman year, and to retain at least 80% of these students as declared STEM majors following their second year of participation in the SUSTAIN program. The program will establish a STEM faculty professional development workshop designed to foster the implementation of cutting-edge instructional practices that support dynamic, active learning approaches in introductory STEM courses. Scholars will be provided 360 degree wrap-around support programming that is responsive to their evolving academic, social, and career development needs as they move through the freshman and sophomore years. Research efforts will investigate the socialization experiences of scholars throughout the program to examine the efficacy of the multi-faceted series of intervention supports to assess their impact on the future STEM trajectories of students. Findings from this project will promote the identification of promising approaches, identify areas for program refinement, and result in the development of a sustainable model for providing wraparound academic and social support services to STEM majors that can be replicated on other campuses.