STEM Student Success with Coaching for Full-time and Part-time Community College Students

该项目将通过支持在杜佩奇学院（COD）表现出经济需求的优秀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。COD位于芝加哥西部，是伊利诺伊州第二大高等教育机构，为23,000多名学生提供服务，其中近40%的半全日制学生获得佩尔助学金。在为期六年的时间里，这个S-STEM轨道2项目将为至少120名符合S-STEM条件的兼职或全日制学生提供奖学金，这些学生正在攻读化学、计算机信息科学、工程、数学或物理的副学士学位（或打算转到未来的学士学位）。COD S-STEM学生成功计划为S-STEM学生提供有效的循证活动，研究经验和奖学金支持。专门的S-STEM成功教练将为学生提供个性化，队列和跨学科项目指导，学术规划和增强教育机会方面的侵入性建议。这包括参观大学、校友小组、STEM讲座、专业发展研讨会和全面的学生支持活动，以鼓励学生坚持学习STEM专业。S-STEM学生还被邀请通过与四年制大学和当地国家实验室的现有合作伙伴关系参加带薪暑期实习。该项目的总体目标是提高有学术天赋、有经济需求的本科生的STEM学位完成率。COD S-STEM项目将通过由专门的成功教练持续以证据为基础的侵入性建议方法，结合奖学金来减少经济障碍，扩大对全日制和非全日制STEM学生的接触和支持，从而实现这一目标。虽然S-STEM项目数据显示支持策略对全日制STEM学生非常有效，但大多数社区大学人口往往是兼职学生。该项目将包括基于证据的基础设施的六大支柱：(1)通过学生成功指导进行侵入式建议和学生跟踪；(2)与地区四年制大学协调学术路径；(3) STEM教师指导和队伍建设；(4) STEM参与活动和研究经历；(5)减少金融壁垒；(6)早期识别大学和职业准备的差距。只要有可能，我们将通过各种方式（面对面、在线）提供各种策略，并根据时间、地点或其他因素来适应非全日制学生的需求。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。它还旨在提高未来STEM工作者的教育水平，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 the College of DuPage (COD). Located just west of Chicago, COD is the second largest postsecondary education institution in Illinois, serving over 23,000 students, with almost 40% of half-time to full-time students receiving Pell Grants. Over its six-year duration, this S-STEM Track 2 project will fund scholarships to a minimum of 120 part-time or full-time S-STEM eligible students pursuing an Associate’s degree (or intent to transfer for a future Bachelor degrees) in Chemistry, Computer-Information Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics. The COD S-STEM Student Success program offers effective evidence-based activities, research experiences, and scholarship support for S-STEM students. A dedicated S-STEM Success Coach will provide intrusive advising in individualized, cohort, and cross-disciplinary program guidance, academic planning, and enhanced educational opportunities for the students. This includes university visits, alumni panels, STEM lectures, professional development workshops, and holistic student support activities to encourage persistence in STEM majors. S-STEM students are also invited to participate in paid summer internships through existing partnerships with four-year institutions and local national laboratories. The overall goal of the project is to increase STEM degree completion of academically talented undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The COD S-STEM project will achieve this goal by broadening the outreach to and support of full-time and part-time STEM students through continued evidence-based methods of intrusive advising by a dedicated Success Coach, combined with scholarships to reduce financial barriers. While S-STEM program data shows support strategies to be highly effective for full-time STEM students, the majority of community college populations tend to be students who attend on a part-time basis. This project will incorporate six pillars of evidence-based infrastructure: (1) Intrusive advising and student tracking through student success coaching; (2) Coordinated academic pathways in alignment with area four-year universities; (3) STEM faculty mentoring and cohort building; (4) STEM engagement activities and research experiences; (5) Reduction of financial barriers; and, (6) Early identification of gaps in college and career readiness. Whenever possible, strategies will be offered through a variety of modalities (in person, online) and varied as to time, location, or other factors to accommodate part-time students’ needs. 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.