Fostering Equity, Support, and Community for Underrepresented STEM Students

在国家科学基金会科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）计划的资助下，该项目名为“为代表性不足的STEM学生培养公平，支持和社区”将为低收入学生提供支持，这些学生表现出经济需求和学术承诺，以在威拉米特大学的STEM学科取得成功。该项目将在五年内为攻读生物学、化学、计算机科学、工程预科、数学或物理学学士学位的STEM学者提供12个四年期奖学金。作为该计划的一部分，另外18名STEM研究员将获得一系列学术和课外支持，旨在帮助他们在STEM领域实现学术持久性和成功。这些包括队列建设活动，共同注册入门STEM课程，密集的教师指导，近同行指导，STEM为主题的住宅社区，校园领导职位，研究和实习机会，以及有针对性的曝光，准备和规划STEM研究生教育和职业机会。STEM学者计划的目标包括：1）提高低收入STEM学生的招聘、保留、成功、归属感和毕业率; 2）提高低收入和代表性不足的学生在机构定义的STEM障碍课程中的坚持和表现; 3）减轻全日制低收入STEM学生面临的经济负担，并为他们提供有意义的机会，以获得相关的有偿学术和专业经验; 4）确保STEM学生离开时有一个个性化的计划，以指导他们的学士后追求;和5）提高机构对低收入，第一代和历史上代表性不足的STEM学生需求的理解，以确定哪些基于证据的实践最适合在威拉米特大学永久实施。与STEM学者的学术奖学金一起，将在STEM学者和研究员的学士学位经历中为他们提供有针对性的学术和学生支持干预措施。该项目的调查结果将公开发布，以便分享最佳实践，这将有助于未来STEM工作者和领导者的教育。

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the project entitled, "Fostering Equity, Support, and Community for Underrepresented STEM students" will provide support to low-income students with demonstrated financial need and academic promise to succeed in STEM disciplines at Willamette University. The project will fund 12 four-year scholarships over five years for STEM Scholars who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in biology, chemistry, computer science, pre-engineering, mathematics, or physics. As part of the program, an additional 18 additional STEM Fellows will have access to a series of academic and co-curricular supports designed to help them achieve academic persistence and success in STEM. These include cohort-building activities, co-enrollment in introductory STEM courses, intensive faculty mentoring, near-peer mentoring, a STEM-themed residential community, on-campus leadership positions, research and internship opportunities, and targeted exposure, preparation, and planning for STEM graduate education and career opportunities. Objectives of the STEM Scholars program include 1) increasing the recruitment, retention, success, sense of belonging, and graduation rates for low-income STEM students; 2) improving low-income and underrepresented students' persistence and performance in institutionally-defined STEM barrier courses; 3) reducing the financial burden faced by full-time, low-income STEM students, and providing meaningful opportunities for them to gain relevant paid academic and professional experience; 4) ensuring that STEM students leave with a personalized plan to guide their post-baccalaureate pursuits; and 5) improving institutional understanding of low-income, first-generation, and historically under-represented STEM students' needs in order to determine which evidence-based practices are best suited to be permanently implemented at Willamette University. In conjunction with academic scholarships for STEM scholars, targeted academic and student support interventions will be provided to both STEM Scholars and Fellows throughout their baccalaureate experience. Findings from this project will be made available publicly, allowing for the sharing of best practices that will contribute to the education of future STEM workers and leaders.