NSF Scholars Program

跨学科(99)-加州州立大学萨克拉门托分校（CSUS）的NSF学者计划的首要目标是培养更多具有工程和计算机科学学位的合格学生，如果没有额外的财政资源和其他支持结构，他们可能无法毕业并进入高科技领域。这一目标特别针对传统上在ECS中代表性不足的群体。该计划每学期向工程与计算机科学学院的低收入学生提供至少30个奖学金，以支付他们全日制学杂费的全部费用。该计划的目标是为学生提供全面的支持模式，包括指导，指导，同伴网络，经济援助和专业发展，以确保学生的学业成功，保留，缩短毕业时间，并获得学位后在工程和计算机科学领域的永久就业机会。csu的工程与计算机科学学院（ECS）于2000年秋季被列入美国国家科学基金会（NSF）第一轮cems奖，并获准再延长两年。迄今为止，已有112名学生获得了奖学金，足以完全支付学杂费。精心挑选的过程，咨询和学术支持提供给NSF学者产生了非常高的保留率。只有5%的学生因为没有达到学术要求而离开了这个项目，在三年半的时间里，他们的保留率超过了90%。自1999年以来，《美国新闻与世界报道》一直将该学院列为前55名的工程学院之一。MESA工程项目（MEP）位于ECS学院，在成功招募、教育和毕业代表性不足的学生方面有着出色的记录。玛德琳·菲什，环境保护部主任，1999年被评为年度主任，1990年被评为全国杰出环境保护部主任。NSF学者计划的结构基于极其有效的MEP/项目成功模式（87.5%毕业率），该模式实施了综合的经济援助计划，并结合了学生支持服务。更广泛的影响根据NACME Research Letter， 1990年8月第1卷第2期，美国国家科学基金会学者计划与CSUS的MEP计划相结合，该计划在未被充分代表的少数族裔工程师毕业方面被列为全国前50名之一。在前一届cems资助的112名学生中，63%已经毕业，70名（63%）来自少数族裔群体（非裔美国人、墨西哥裔拉丁美洲人或美洲原住民），此外，34名（30%）是女性。NSF学者项目的好处是多层次的，与当今社会的需求直接相关。首先，有经济需要的有才华的学生，大部分来自传统上在工程和计算机科学领域未被充分代表的群体，正在通过严格的学术课程得到有效的帮助，以期及时毕业——这从根本上永远改变了这些学生的生活。此外，高科技行业迫切需要高素质的员工，从这一群体中招聘学生不仅可以满足他们的技术需求，而且还有助于使他们的劳动力多样化。

Interdisciplinary (99)-The overriding goal of the NSF Scholars Program at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) is to graduate significantly more well qualified students with degrees in Engineering and Computer Science, who may not make it to graduation and into a high technology field without additional financial resources and other support structures. This goal especially identifies groups traditionally underrepresented in ECS. The program is providing a minimum of 30 scholarships per semester to low-income students in the College of Engineering and Computer Science to pay the complete cost of their full-time tuition and fees. The objective of the Program is to provide a holistic model of student support, including guidance, mentoring, peer networking, financial assistance, and professional development to ensure the students' academic success, retention, shortened time to graduation, and permanent career opportunities in engineering and computer science after degree. Intellectual MeritThe College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at CSUS was included in the first round of NSF awards for CSEMS in the Fall of 2000, and was granted an extension for another two years. To date, 112 students have received scholarships sufficient to completely pay tuition and fees. The careful selection process, counseling, and academic support provided to the NSF Scholars produced a very high retention rate. Only 5% left the program due to failure to meet academic guidelines, resulting in an impressive over 90% retention rate over the 3-1/2 year period. Since 1999, the U.S. News and World Report has ranked the College within the top 55 colleges of engineering. The MESA Engineering Program (MEP), housed in the College of ECS, has an outstanding track record of successfully recruiting, educating, and graduating underrepresented students. Madeleine Fish, Director of MEP, was recognized in 1999 as Director of the Year and in 1990 as the Outstanding MEP Director in the Nation. The structure of the NSF Scholars Program is based on the extremely effective MEP/Project Success model (87.5% graduation rate) which implements a comprehensive plan of financial assistance combined with student support services.Broader ImpactsThe NSF Scholars Program is coupled with the MEP program at CSUS that is ranked as one of the top 50 in the nation in the graduation of underrepresented minority engineers, according to the NACME Research Letter, Vol. 1, No. 2, August 1990. Out of the total 112 students funded by the prior CSEMS award, 63% have already graduated and 70 (63%) were from ethnically underrepresented groups (African-American, Chicano-Latino, or Native American), in addition, 34 (30%) were women. The benefits of the NSF Scholars program are multi-layered and directly relevant to the needs of society today. First, talented students with economic need, and largely from groups traditionally underrepresented in engineering and computer science, are being effectively assisted through a rigorous academic program toward a timely graduation - which radically changes these students' lives forever. Further, the high technology industry is desperate for quality employees, and hiring students from this population is not only filling their technical needs, but it is also helping to diversify their workforce.