ESTEEM: Enhancing Success in Transfer Education for Engineering Majors

“提高工程专业转学教育的成功率”（ESTEEM）项目将支持和提高在四所加州社区学院和一所主要的公立研究型大学中有学术天赋的低收入学生完成工程专业的学位，所有这些都是为西班牙裔服务的机构。在艾伦汉考克学院、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注册的有前途的学生将参加一个综合项目，包括学术辅导、职业咨询、专业网络建设和奖学金，旨在为从社区学院过渡到四年制大学之前、期间和之后的转学生提供持续的支持。自尊研究将探讨成功转移的主要障碍，以及旨在帮助有抱负的工程专业学生克服这些障碍的策略的有效性。这五所院校的教师将进行重要的合作，以确保在各院校之间共享适当的课程，并加强学生转学申请。ESTEEM将成为一个重要的新模式，扩大加州高等教育系统的准入和增加多样性。ESTEEM项目的目标是提高加州社区学院学生转读四年制工程学士学位课程的竞争力，提高转学生接受高级工程课程的准备，并加速转学生适应大学的学术环境。该项目的范围包括通过机构间合作协调转学途径，通过重叠队列顺序设计促进转学成功的课程和课外干预的教育研究提供信息。加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（University of California, Santa Barbara）的工程学院将与社区学院教员合作，试点向社区学院学生提供入门课程。ESTEEM社区学院的学者将与教师导师一起制定个性化的教育计划，以计划他们转到四年制工程学士学位课程。转入加州大学圣巴巴拉分校工程学院的学者将继续获得奖学金支持和教师指导，以确保他们顺利毕业。一项使用重叠队列序列设计的教育影响研究将检验每种类型的强化课程和课外本科经历对转学完成和转学后调整、成功的感知可能性和目标表达的影响。

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.