Mentoring Math Scholars for Success

加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校（California State University, Fresno）的“辅导数学学者成功”（Mentoring Math Scholars for Success）项目将招收有学术天赋的低收入学生，并为他们提供奖学金和支持，使他们能够在四年内毕业，顺利进入职场或研究生院。该项目将引导入选的学者从第一年开始学习密集的18学分STEM课程，并为他们提供解决问题的挑战，以培养他们对高等数学的兴趣和准备。教师导师将通过培养和深化学者第一年和第二年的预研究环境来支持这些学术挑战，为他们在大三和大四的研究经验和高级课程上取得成功做好准备。许多解决问题的挑战将产生开放式的调查，以加强学者的数学熟练程度和个人解决问题的能力。此外，这些挑战将使他们为数学工作做好准备，这些工作需要一个好奇的头脑和良好的数学沟通能力，无论是口头还是书面。随着奖学金获得者临近毕业，教师导师将指导他们申请工作和研究生院。最后，行业合作伙伴将尽早与学者进行实地考察，以激发他们对职业道路的兴趣，并培养高价值的工作技能，如模拟面试。该项目的数学教育研究员将衡量每项干预措施的有效性，以及整套干预措施，以加强学者的智力基础和经验。数学系将根据结果将活动制度化，并将其提供给全国类似的机构，从而更接近支持全国可用的数学人才库的目标。

California State University, Fresno's "Mentoring Math Scholars for Success" program will recruit academically talented, low income students and provide them with scholarships, plus supports that enable them to graduate in four years and successfully enter the workforce or graduate school. The program will guide the selected Scholars along an intense, 18-credit STEM course-taking pathway from their first year and presents them with problem-solving challenges to cultivate interest and readiness for advanced mathematics. Faculty mentors will support these academic challenges by cultivating and deepening the pre-research environment in the Scholars' first and second years, preparing them to succeed at research experiences and advanced courses in their junior and senior years.Many of these problem-solving challenges will generate open-ended investigation to strengthen the Scholars' sense of mathematical proficiency and individual problem-solving skills. Also, these challenges will prepare them for mathematical jobs that require an inquisitive mind and the ability to communicate mathematics well, both orally and in writing. As the Scholars approach graduation, the faculty mentors will coach them in applying for jobs and graduate schools. Finally, industry partners will engage the Scholars early on with site visits to stimulate interest in career paths and to develop high value job skills, such as mock interviews. The program's mathematics education researcher will measure the effectiveness of each intervention, as well as the entire suite of interventions, to strengthen the Scholars' intellectual foundation and experience. The Math Department will institutionalize activities as the results merit and make them available to similar institutions nationwide, moving closer to the goal of supporting the nationally available pool of mathematics talent.