ESTEEM: Enhancing Success in Transfer Education for Engineering Majors

加强工程专业转学教育的成功(RESPEEM)项目将支持和加强四所加州社区学院和一所主要的公立研究型大学工程专业有学术天赋的低收入学生完成学位，这四所大学都是为拉美裔服务的机构。被艾伦·汉考克学院、奥克斯纳德学院、圣巴巴拉城市学院、文图拉学院和加州大学圣巴巴拉分校录取的有前途的学生将参加一个综合计划，该计划包括学术辅导、职业咨询、职业网络建设和奖学金，旨在从社区学院过渡到四年制大学之前、期间和之后为转学学生提供持续支持。自尊研究将探索成功迁移的主要障碍，以及旨在帮助有抱负的工科学生克服这些障碍的策略的有效性。来自这五个机构的教职员工将进行重大合作，以确保在不同地点之间共享适当的课程，并加强学生转学申请。该项目的目标是提高加州社区学院学生申请四年制工程学士学位的竞争力，改善转学学生从事高级工程课程的准备工作，并加快转学学生适应大学学术环境的进程。该项目的范围包括通过机构间协作协调转学途径，并借鉴了一项关于通过重叠队列顺序设计促进转学成功的课程和课程间干预措施的教育研究研究。加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的工程学教师将与社区学院教师合作，试行向社区学院学生提供门户课程。社区学院的荣誉学者将与教师导师一起制定个性化的教育计划，以计划他们转到一个四年制的工程学士学位课程。转到加州大学圣巴巴拉分校工程学院的荣誉学者将获得持续的奖学金支持和教职员工指导，以确保他们成功毕业。一项采用重叠队列顺序设计的教育影响研究将考察每种类型的强化课程和协同课程本科生经历对转学完成和转学后调整、感知的成功可能性和目标的阐明的影响。

The Enhancing Success in Transfer Education for Engineering Majors (ESTEEM) project will support and enhance degree completion by academically-talented, low-income students in Engineering at four California Community Colleges and a major public research university, all of which are Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Promising students enrolled at Alan Hancock College, Oxnard College, Santa Barbara City College, Ventura College and the University of California, Santa Barbara, will participate in an integrated program of academic tutoring, career advising, professional network-building, and scholarships designed to provide sustained support for transfer students before, during, and after the transition from community college to a four-year university. ESTEEM research will explore the major barriers to successful transfer, and the effectiveness of strategies targeted at helping aspiring Engineering students to overcome them. Faculty from each of the five institutions will engage in significant collaboration to ensure that appropriate courses are shared between sites, and to strengthen student transfer applications. ESTEEM will serve as an important new model for expanding access to and increasing diversity in California's higher education system.The goals of the ESTEEM project are to enhance the competitiveness of California Community College students in their transfer applications to four-year Engineering B.S. programs, to improve transfer students' preparation to undertake advanced engineering coursework, and to accelerate the adjustment of transfer students to a University academic environment. The scope of the project includes coordination of transfer pathways through inter-institutional collaboration, informed by an education research study of curricular and co-curricular interventions that promote transfer success via an overlapping cohort-sequential design. In collaboration with community college faculty, Engineering faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara will pilot the offering of gateway courses to community college students. ESTEEM Scholars at the community colleges will develop personalized education plans with faculty mentors to plan their transfer to a 4-year Engineering B.S. program. ESTEEM Scholars who transfer to the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will receive continued scholarship support and faculty mentoring to ensure their successful graduation. An educational impact study using an overlapping cohort-sequential design will examine the impact of each type of enhanced curricular and co-curricular undergraduate experience on transfer completion and post-transfer adjustment, perceived likelihood of success, and articulation of goals.