The Strategic Undergraduate STEM Talent Acceleration Initiative (SUSTAIN)

锡拉丘兹大学的“战略本科STEM人才加速计划”（SUSTAIN）项目将解决招募和留住来自不同背景的高成就、低收入学生进入本科STEM课程的挑战。 SUSTAIN计划将颁发30个10，000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，旨在提高生物和化学学生在本科学习的第一年和第二年的成功。 该计划的目标包括保留至少90%的30名学生的初始队列作为打算或宣布干专业后，他们的大一，并保留至少80%的这些学生作为宣布干专业后，他们在SUSTAIN计划参与的第二年。 该计划将建立一个STEM教师专业发展研讨会，旨在促进实施尖端的教学实践，支持在介绍STEM课程的动态，主动的学习方法。学者将提供360度环绕支持编程，是响应他们不断变化的学术，社会和职业发展的需求，因为他们通过大一和大二移动。 研究工作将调查整个计划中学者的社会化经验，以检查多方面的一系列干预支持的有效性，以评估其对学生未来STEM轨迹的影响。 该项目的研究结果将促进确定有前途的方法，确定程序改进的领域，并导致开发一种可持续的模式，为STEM专业提供可以在其他校园复制的概括性学术和社会支持服务。

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.