Mentoring Math Scholars for Success

加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校的“辅导数学学者取得成功”计划将招募学术才华，低收入家庭的学生，并为他们提供奖学金，加上支持，使他们能够在四年内毕业，并成功进入劳动力市场或研究生院。该计划将引导选定的学者沿着一个激烈的，18学分的STEM课程从他们的第一年采取途径，并提出了解决问题的挑战，培养他们的兴趣和准备高等数学。在第一年和第二年，教师导师将通过培养和深化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中取得成功做好准备。这些解决问题的挑战中有许多将产生开放式的调查，以加强学者的数学能力和个人解决问题的能力。 此外，这些挑战将为他们准备数学工作，需要一个好奇的头脑和沟通数学的能力很好，无论是口头和书面。随着学者接近毕业，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。该计划的数学教育研究人员将衡量每一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，更接近于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.