Creating Opportunities for Student Retention and Degree Attainment in Engineering and Science

该项目将通过支持西山社区学院（WHCC）（西班牙裔服务机构）中表现出经济需求的高成就低收入学生的保留和毕业，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。该项目为期5年，将为至少50名攻读生物学、化学、工程学、地质学、数学或物理学副学士学位的学生提供200个奖学金。每个学生将获得最多四个学期的奖学金支持。该项目旨在通过提供全面的支持服务来补充奖学金，包括指导、补充指导、加强学术和职业咨询以及丰富机会，从而提高学生在STEM领域的入学率和持久性。该项目将实施一个全面的数据收集机制，以记录和传播最佳做法。由于WHCC有大量未被充分代表的学生，该项目有可能扩大STEM领域的参与，并进一步了解学生支持服务与STEM学位课程中未被充分代表的学生的保留和毕业之间的关系。该项目的总体目标是提高具有经济需求的低收入高成就本科生的STEM学位完成率。这个项目有三个目标。首先，增加招收、留用、学生成功和获得副学士学位的合格学生的毕业（或转到四年制课程）。第二，适应、发展、实施和研究支持学生成功的循证实践。第三，为STEM研究领域中代表性不足的学生提供以证据为基础的课程和课外活动的记录和传播。该项目将使用定性和定量数据分析来研究STEM识别的形成以及该计划对民族，种族，性别和残疾状况的学生成功的影响。一名外部评价人员将提供形成性和总结性反馈，项目小组将在国家会议上传播结果。该项目由美国国家科学基金会的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，旨在增加有经济需求的低收入学术天才学生在STEM领域获得学位的人数。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并为低收入学生提供有关学业成功、留校、转学、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。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。

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 at West Hills Community College (WHCC), a Hispanic Serving Institution. Over its 5-year duration, this project will fund 200 scholarships to at least 50 students who are pursuing associate's degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geology, Mathematics or Physics. Each student will receive up to four semesters of scholarship support. The project aims to increase student enrollment and persistence in STEM fields by supplementing scholarships with comprehensive support services, including mentoring, supplemental instruction, enhanced academic and career counseling, and enrichment opportunities. The project will implement a comprehensive data collection mechanism to document and disseminate best practices. Because WHCC has a high population of underrepresented students, this project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields and advance knowledge of the relationship between student support services and retention and graduation of students underrepresented in STEM degree programs.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income high achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Three objectives guide this project. First, to increase the recruitment, retention, student success, and graduation (or transfer to four year programs) of eligible students pursuing associate degrees. Second, to adapt, develop, implement, and study evidence-based practices that support student success. Third, to contribute to the documentation and dissemination of evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities for students underrepresented in STEM fields of study. This project will use qualitative and quantitative data analysis to study STEM identify formation and the impact of the program on student success by ethnicity, race, gender and disability status. An external evaluator will provide formative and summative feedback, and the project team will disseminate results at national conferences. 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.