Promoting Pre- and Post-transfer Success in STEM at Hispanic Serving Institutions

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）科学、技术、工程和数学（S-STEM）奖学金项目是加州州立大学圣贝纳迪诺分校（CSUSB）与四所社区学院（Barstow学院、沙漠学院、帝国谷学院和圣贝纳迪诺谷学院）的合作项目。通过转移合作，这五家西班牙裔服务机构/少数族裔服务机构将共同努力，为南加州内陆一些收入最低的STEM专业提供财政、课程和课外支持。该项目将为攻读生物学、化学、生物化学、计算机科学、工程学、地质学、数学或物理学学位的社区大学和转学生提供奖学金。除了奖学金，该计划还将提供学术和其他支持，以增加这些有学术天赋的低收入学生的坚持。每个校区的课外支持都建立在现有课程的基础上，并通过了解对学生成功贡献最大的因素来获得信息。支持活动包括转学前的指导、学习队列和在中南大学的研究活动。为那些可能无法获得工程或计算机科学学位的低收入和有学术天赋的学生提供奖学金和支持，将有助于培养训练有素的劳动力，为国家的经济福祉做出贡献。除了促进有才华的低收入家庭学生的成功，该项目还将促进对与改善留校、转学和学位获得有关的因素和活动的了解。在每个参与校园提出的学生支持机制，以及院校之间的协调，为帮助高度弱势群体的学生获得STEM学位提供了一个独特的模式。目前对促成转校生成功的因素的理解是有限的，特别是对于服务于大量西班牙裔学生的项目。同样，需要更多的信息来确保学生在转学和毕业之间的成功。该项目将研究转学率和毕业率的成功趋势，并揭示该项目在西班牙裔服务机构环境中最成功的方面。这个项目的结果可以帮助我们了解哪些因素最能影响这些有才华的低收入家庭学生的成功。该项目的研究结果将广泛传播，以帮助其他机构最大限度地提高转学生在STEM领域的成功。

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project is a collaborative effort between California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) and four community colleges: Barstow College, College of the Desert, Imperial Valley College, and San Bernardino Valley College. Through a transfer collaborative these five Hispanic Serving Institutions/Minority Serving Institutions will work together to provide financial, curricular, and co-curricular support for some of Inland Southern California's lowest-income STEM majors. The program will provide scholarships to community college and transfer students who are pursuing degrees in biology, chemistry, biochemistry, computer science, engineering, geology, mathematics or physics. In addition to scholarships, the program will provide academic and other support to increase the persistence of these academically talented, low-income students. The co-curricular support on each campus builds on existing programs and is informed by an understanding of factors that contribute most to student success. Support activities include mentoring prior to transfer, learning cohorts, and research activities at CSUSB. Scholarships and support for low-income and academically talented students, who may not otherwise be able to obtain engineering or computer science degrees, will help to produce a well-trained workforce that will contribute to the economic well being of the nation.In addition to promoting success of talented low-income students, the project will advance understanding about the factors and activities associated with improvements in retention, transfer, and degree attainment. The student support mechanisms proposed on each participating campus, and the coordination between institutions provide a unique model for helping students from a highly disadvantaged population to earn degrees in STEM. The current understanding of factors contributing to transfer student success is limited, particularly for programs serving larger numbers of Hispanic students. Similarly, more information is needed about ways to ensure student success between transfer and graduation. The project will study successful trends in transfer and graduation rates, and uncover what aspects of the program are most successful in this Hispanic Serving Institution environment. Results from this project can contribute to the body of knowledge about what factors most influence success for these talented low-income students. The findings from the program will be disseminated widely to help other institutions to maximize the success of transfer students in STEM fields.