Retaining and Inspiring students in Science and Engineering (RISE)

在美国国家科学基金会的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）计划的资助下，大峡谷州立大学（GVSU）的科学和工程留住和激励学生（RISE）计划将为至少50名低收入、有学术天赋的学生创建一套逐步增加的四年奖学金，这些学生已经确定对攻读科学或工程专业感兴趣。RISE将把奖学金获得者与教师导师一起纳入一个队列，提供强大的支持网络和体验式学习机会，包括暑期研究和实习，这已被证明可以通过学科社会化提高留校率和毕业率。由于研究经历的参与增加了攻读研究生学位的兴趣，特别是对于代表性不足和低收入的学生来说，RISE可以帮助解决科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）项目缺乏多样性的问题。通过深入的评估，RISE项目将调查项目的结构，以帮助支持学生的保留和毕业，以及学者的职业道路；学生对RISE项目各要素（队列、课外经历、课外活动和研究/实习经历）价值的看法；这群有学术天赋的低收入家庭学生毕业的障碍。此外，该项目将研究(1)体验式学习的影响。(2)重复经历（带薪实习）与单一经历（暑期实习）的影响，(3)体验式学习经历在学生进入STEM学科和职业的社会化以及从大学到工作场所的转移中的作用，以及(4)社区大学生转入大学STEM项目的难易程度。该项目建立在之前成功的S-STEM项目的基础上，结合了额外的基于证据的课程和课外学生支持，包括与教师导师的早期接触，扩大STEM学科中基于研究的体验式学习机会，并将GVSU在工程和计算领域成功的有偿行业合作/实习体验式学习模式扩展到所有科学。所需的课外研讨会和课外活动将帮助RISE学者调查科学和工程领域的职业机会的广度，并为他们的研究，合作或实习经验做好准备，这将有助于他们对自己的职业道路做出明智的决定。一门新的研究导论课程，类似于目前工程课程中的合作准备课程，将作为该项目的一部分开发，并将在项目结束后继续教授。项目团队将与地区社区学院（CC）合作，为从大急流城社区学院（GRCC）、西北密歇根学院（NMC）和渥太华中级学区(OAISD)/马斯基根社区学院（MCC）早期大学项目转学的学生提供25个奖学金。被选为RISE学者的CC学生将在转学到GVSU之前的夏季参加1学分的预备课程，并参与体验式学习机会。社区学院的教师将作为导师参与。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。

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the Retaining and Inspiring Students in Science and Engineering (RISE) program at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) will create a set of progressively increasing four-year scholarships for at least 50 low-income, academically talented students who have identified an interest in pursuing a science or engineering major. RISE will immerse scholarship recipients in a cohort with faculty mentors to provide a robust support network and experiential learning opportunities, including summer research and internships, which have been shown to improve retention and graduation rates through disciplinary socialization. As participation in research experiences has been shown to increase interest in pursuing graduate degrees, particularly for underrepresented and low-income students, RISE can help address the lack of diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs. Through an in-depth evaluation, the RISE program will investigate structures of the program that help support student retention and graduation as well as career paths for scholars; student perceptions of the value of various elements of the RISE program (cohort, extracurricular experiences, co-curricular activities, and research/internship experiences); and the barriers to graduation for this group of academically talented, low-income students. Additionally, the project will study the (1) impact of experiential learning. (2) impact of repeated experiences (co-op) vs. single experience (summer internship), (3) role of experiential learning experience in socialization of students into STEM disciplines and careers and transfer from college to the workplace, and (4) ease of transfer of community college students into STEM programs at the university.The project builds on a prior successful S-STEM program by incorporating additional evidence-based curricular and extracurricular student supports including early engagement with faculty mentors, expanding research-based experiential learning opportunities in STEM disciplines, and extending the successful GVSU paid industry co-op/internship experiential learning model in engineering and computing to all sciences. Required co-curricular seminars and extracurricular activities will assist RISE scholars in investigating the breadth of career opportunities in science and engineering and prepare them for research, co-op, or internship experiences, which will help them make informed decisions about their career paths. A new Introduction to Research course, analogous to the Co-op Preparation course currently part of the engineering curriculum, will be developed as part of this program and will continue to be taught after the program ends. The project team will collaborate with area community colleges (CC) with 25 total scholarships designated for students transferring from Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC), Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) and Ottawa Intermediate School District (OAISD)/Muskegon Community College (MCC) early college program. CC students selected as potential RISE Scholars will dual enroll in a 1-credit prep course and engage in experiential learning opportunities during the summer before they transfer to GVSU. Faculty at the community colleges will participate as mentors.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.