Pathways to STEM Leadership Careers

这个国家科学基金会（NSF）在科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）奖学金项目在南伊利诺伊大学卡本代尔，伊利诺伊州将提供奖学金的人才，低收入的学生证明谁是追求STEM学位的经济需要。该计划名为Pathways to STEM Leadership（PSL），将改善社区学院学生转移到南伊利诺伊大学卡本代尔STEM学院的招聘，保留，毕业率和就业安置。该计划旨在帮助STEM学生成为未来的行业领导者，为他们提供领导力培训，指导，队列经验和社区服务机会。培养技术领导者已成为美国在以技术为基础的全球经济中保持竞争地位的关键需求。奖学金和支持低收入和学术天赋的学生，谁可能无法获得STEM学位，将有助于产生训练有素的劳动力，将有助于国家的经济福祉。该项目将进行研究，以确定正式和体验式领导力培训机会对学生的持续性和完成STEM学位的影响。这项工作是基于先前NSF S-STEM项目的结果，该项目强调领导技能的发展。该项目提高了工程学院低收入学生的学位完成率和成功就业率。这个项目将利用一个匹配的控制组，以帮助确定基于队列的领导力培训的影响因素，如持久性，成绩，毕业率，毕业后的安置。 该项目回应了技术驱动型公司对提高毕业生进入劳动力市场的技术领导技能的需求。该计划的调查结果将广泛传播到STEM教育界。

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in Carbondale, Illinois will provide scholarships for talented, low-income students with demonstrated financial need who are pursuing STEM degrees. The program, called Pathways to STEM Leadership (PSL), will improve the recruitment, retention, graduation rates, and job placement of community college students transferring to Southern Illinois University Carbondale STEM colleges. The program is designed help STEM students become future leaders in industry by providing them with leadership training, mentoring, a cohort experience, and community service opportunities. The development of technical leaders has become a critical need for the United States in helping to maintain a competitive position in a technology-based global economy. Scholarships and support for low-income and academically talented students, who may not otherwise be able to obtain STEM degrees, will help to produce a well-trained workforce that will contribute to the economic well-being of the nation.The project will conduct research to determine the influence of formal and experiential leadership training opportunities on student persistence and completion of STEM degrees. This work is based on the results of a prior NSF S-STEM project that emphasized the development of leadership skills. That project resulted in high rates of degree completion and successful entry into the workforce by low-income students in the college of engineering. This project will utilize a matched control group to help identify the impact of cohort-based leadership training on factors such as persistence, grades, graduation rate, and placement upon graduation. The project responds to a need expressed by technology-driven companies for improved technical leadership skills in graduates entering the workforce. The findings from the program will be disseminated widely to the STEM education community.