Collaborating to Support the Success of Community College Transfer Students in Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science

该项目将通过支持有经济需求的高成就、低收入学生的留校和毕业，为国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求做出贡献。在五年的时间里，该项目将为45名正在攻读计算机科学、工程或数学学士学位的社区大学转校生提供为期两年的奖学金。该项目将与社区大学领导层、教师和顾问合作，招募转校生，特别是计算机科学专业的女性。通过建议和同行主导的团队学习等策略，该项目预计将减少从社区学院转学到大学的学生毕业的时间。该项目的研究和评估将有助于了解如何支持社区大学转校生的成功。该项目的目标是提高低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生的STEM学位完成率。该项目有三个目标：(I)招募社区学院的计算机科学、工程或数学专业的学生转学到西德克萨斯农工大学；(Ii)提高这些学生在转学后的学业成就；以及(Iii)开发从社区学院到四年制院校的有效途径。招生将通过在社区学院校园进行个人接触、让社区学院学生参与合修课程的机会以及大学和社区学院教职员工之间的合作专业发展来完成。学者将参与一个同行领导的团队学习计划，这将有助于将学者们融入大学的职业前STEM社区。学者将有机会在教师和行业专业人士的指导和指导下参与跨学科研究项目。此外，该项目将为学者提供持续的学术咨询，从社区大学入学到获得理科学士学位毕业。本项目旨在增加对社区大学计算机科学、工程和数学专业转校生毕业途径的影响因素的了解。通过这个项目开发的模型有可能被其他大学用来招收、留住和提高STEM领域社区学院转校生的学业成功。因此，将通过现有的合作伙伴关系、在STEM教育期刊上发表同行评议的出版物以及在以转校生成功为重点的专业会议上发表演讲，在地方和全国范围内广泛传播成果。该项目由NSF的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学业成功、留住、转移、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. Over five years, this project will fund two-year scholarships to 45 community college transfer students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics. This project will collaborate with community college leadership, faculty, and advisors to recruit transfer students, particularly women in computer science. Through strategies such as advising and peer-led team learning, the project expects to decrease the time to graduation of students who transfer from community colleges to the University. The project's research and evaluation will contribute to the body of knowledge regarding how to support the success of community college transfer students.The goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project has three objectives: (i) recruit Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics students at community colleges to transfer to West Texas A&M University; (ii) increase the academic achievement of these students following transfer; and (iii) develop efficient pathways from community college into four-year institutions. Student recruitment will be accomplished through personal contact at community college campuses, engaging community college students in co-curricular opportunities, and collaborative professional development between University and community college faculty. Scholars will be engaged in a peer-led team learning program, which will help to integrate the Scholars into the University's pre-professional STEM communities. Scholars will have the opportunity to be involved with interdisciplinary research projects under the guidance and mentorship of faculty and industry professionals. In addition, the project will provide continuous academic advising of Scholars, from community college enrollment through graduation with a Bachelor of Science degree. This project intends to increase understanding of the factors that influence pathways to graduation for community college transfer students in Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. The models developed through this project have the potential to be used by other universities to recruit, retain, and increase academic success of community college transfer students in STEM fields. Consequently, results will be broadly disseminated locally and nationally through existing partnerships, peer reviewed publications in STEM education journals, and presentations at professional conferences focused on transfer student success. This project is funded by NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.