A Comprehensive System for Undergraduates to Reach Goals in Education

美国国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学（S-STEM）奖学金项目将资助本科生实现教育目标的综合系统（SURGE）项目。SURGE项目将支持德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校（UTA）表现出经济需求的高成就低收入STEM学生的成功。在四年的时间里，该项目将为攻读数学学士学位的学生提供36个奖学金。该项目包括一个涉及教师、博士生和工业科学家的全面指导系统，以及本科生研究的机会。奖学金获得者将获得支持，以实现从学生到工业职业或研究生学习的成功过渡。该项目将促进UTA与该地区两个大型社区学院系统之间的合作：达拉斯县社区学院区（DCCCD）和塔兰特县学院（TCC）。SURGE项目将建立在一个现有的数学学习社区的基础上，该社区由美国数学协会（MAA）的当地学生分会主持。除了与导师密切互动外，学生们还将有机会在当地MAA分会担任领导角色，从而实现所有数学专业学生之间的同伴指导。SURGE项目还将为DCCCD和TCC的学生和数学教授举办定期活动。这种推广旨在促进机构之间的互动，目标是支持学生从社区学院顺利过渡到UTA的数学学位课程。通过数据收集和研究，将奖学金获得者与UTA其他数学专业的学生进行比较，该项目旨在确定增加完成数学学位课程的学生人数并减少毕业时间的关键因素。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program will fund A Comprehensive System for Undergraduates to Reach Goals in Education (SURGE) project. The SURGE project will support the success of high-achieving, low-income STEM students with demonstrated financial need at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Over its four years, the project will fund 36 scholarships for students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in mathematics. The project includes a comprehensive mentoring system involving faculty, doctoral students, and industrial scientists, as well as opportunities for undergraduate research. Scholarship recipients will have support to achieve a successful transition from being a student into industrial careers or graduate studies. This project will foster a collaboration between UTA with two large community college systems in the area: the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) and Tarrant County College (TCC). The SURGE project will build on an existing mathematics learning community, anchored by the local student chapter of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). In addition to close interactions with their mentors, the students will have opportunities to take on leadership roles in the local MAA chapter, enabling peer mentorship among all mathematics majors. The SURGE project will also host regular activities for students and mathematics professors at DCCCD and TCC. This outreach seeks to catalyze interactions between the institutions, with the goal of supporting a smooth transition of students from a community college to the mathematics degree program at UTA. Through data collection and studies that compare the scholarship recipients with other mathematics majors at UTA, the project aims to identify key factors that increase the number of students who complete the mathematics degree program, as well as reduce the time to graduation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.