Improving Minority Participation and Completion through Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (IMPACTS)

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科生计划为设计，实施和评估战略的项目提供支持，这些战略可以导致全面的机构努力，以增加获得科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）本科学位的学生人数，并通过加强STEM教育和研究来提高他们的准备质量。迪拉德大学为期一年的项目旨在为STEM学生的成功奠定基础。总体目标是显着增加代表性不足的少数民族学生谁完成STEM专业，进入STEM劳动力或继续在STEM领域的研究生课程的数量。这些目标和活动旨在改革课程，招募和留住STEM学生。这些活动包括重新设计课程，使大一的数学和科学课程保持一致，为高中学生及其科学教师开设STEM星期六研究所，以及为新生开设夏桥课程。高级STEM专业的学生作为导师，导师和促进者参与该项目。这些活动和策略是以证据为基础的，通过这个项目学到的东西可以作为其他小型文科院校的榜样。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program provides support for projects to design, implement, and assess strategies that can lead to comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the number of students receiving undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and enhance the quality of their preparation by strengthening STEM education and research. The one-year project at Dillard University seeks to establish the foundation for building STEM student success. The overall goal is to significantly increase the number of underrepresented minority students who complete STEM majors and enter into the STEM workforce or continue in a graduate program in a STEM field. The objectives and activities are designed for reforming the curriculum and for recruiting and retaining STEM students. These activities include course redesign to align freshman year courses in mathematics and the sciences, a STEM Saturday Institute for high school students and their science teachers, and a summer bridge program for entering freshmen. Upper level STEM majors are involved in the project as mentors, tutors and facilitators. The activities and strategies are evidence-based and what is learned through this project can serve as a model for other small liberal arts institutions.