Mapping Transfer into Undergraduate Engineering Programs in the Central New York State Region

该项目将通过支持雪城大学（Syracuse University）表现出经济需求的高成就低收入学生的保留和毕业，为全国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。在为期一年的时间里，该项目将制定计划，为招募有才华的学生进入我们的项目创造新的途径，并提供基于群体的经验，以招募、留住、全面支持和培养来自纽约州中部（CNY）的有学术才华的低收入学生，使其进入该地区的STEM劳动力。这项工作的目标是在纽约州中部的社区学院、锡拉丘兹大学和STEM雇主之间建立强有力的合作伙伴关系，以提高对CNY地区多样化和熟练人才的保留，满足当地行业显著增长的需求，并改善那些在历史上被排除在STEM职业之外的人的社会经济流动性。该项目的总体目标是提高有经济需求的低收入、高成就本科生的STEM学位完成率。有五个具体目标：1)建设能力并加强雪城大学、奥农达加社区学院（OCC）、莫霍克谷社区学院（MVCC）和CNY地区其他社区学院之间的合作伙伴关系，以支持2025年Track 3 S-STEM提案；2)对所有合作院校进行全面的需求评估，并利用评估结果，确定为低收入工程专业学生在两年制大学、过渡期间以及在雪城大学期间提供支持的最佳方式；3)与OCC， MVCC和纽约中部地区的其他cc正式签订转学协议，直接进入州立大学的ECS项目；4)通过纽约中部制造商协会（MACNY）和纽约中部技术联盟（TACNY）与美光和其他地区雇主建立行业合作伙伴关系；5)为Track 3提案制定教育研究计划，该计划将有助于理解以劳动力发展为重点的基于奖学金的队列模型如何改善低收入社区大学工程转学生的成果。研究人员将使用反赤字成就框架来研究社区大学和转学生的需求，以了解他们的生活经历，他们对坚持和完成学位的态度，并揭示他们成功的感知障碍。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 Syracuse University. Over its one-year duration, this project will develop plans to create new pathways for recruitment of talented students into our programs and a cohort-based experience to recruit, retain, holistically support, and graduate academically talented, low-income students from central New York state (CNY) into the regional STEM workforce. A goal of this work is to build robust partnerships between community colleges, Syracuse University, and STEM employers in central New York state to improve the retention of diverse and skilled talent in the CNY region, meet the significantly growing demands of local industry, and improve the socioeconomic mobility of those who have been historically excluded from careers in STEM.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. There are five specific aims: 1) build capacity and strengthen partnerships among Syracuse University, Onondaga Community College (OCC), Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC), and other community colleges in the CNY region in support of a 2025 Track 3 S-STEM proposal; 2) conduct a comprehensive needs assessment across all partner institutions and utilize the outcomes to determine the best ways to support low-income engineering students at their two-year college, during their transition, and throughout their time at Syracuse; 3) formalize transfer articulation agreements with OCC, MVCC, and other CCs in the Central New York region directly into ECS programs at SU; 4) develop industry partnerships with Micron and other regional employers by working through the Manufacturers Association of Central New York (MACNY) and the Technology Alliance of Central New York (TACNY); and 5) develop an educational research plan for the Track 3 proposal that will contribute to understanding how a scholarship-based cohort model with a focus on workforce development can improve outcomes for low-income community college transfer students in engineering. Investigators will use an anti-deficit achievement framework to study the needs of community college and transfer students to learn about their lived experience, their attitudes related to persistence and degree completion, and to uncover perceived barriers to their 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.