Resources In support of Excellence (RISE): A USF/NSF Computer Science, Engineering, & Mathematics Scholarship Program

支持卓越的资源(RISE)利用国家科学基金会的奖学金资金，结合积极的招生和保留计划以及其他支持，显著增加南佛罗里达大学工程、计算机科学和数学专业有才华的低收入、代表不足的第一代、成人和转学学生的招生人数。RISE计划超越了传统的学生奖学金计划，实施的计划和支持侧重于学生在CSEMS学位准备计划以及他们的职业和职业发展培训计划中的发展需求。因此，USF/NSF Rise计划招募并挑选了29名低收入有才华的本科生，其中也包括少数民族和女性，目的是为他们提供密集的支持和指导，以确保CSEMS学科的成功。作为这一目标的一部分，CSEMS学科的导师干部被选为基于学科的辅导员。由高科技公司、USF管理人员和教职员工组成的咨询委员会以及学区监督项目RISE的所有计划和管理需求。采用多方面的方法来吸引来自低收入和代表性不足群体的不同学生干部。这包括在CSEMS学科项目的最后两年里，积极招收一年级新生，瞄准高水平学生。智力优势：最近的研究证明了一些关键的支持问题的重要性，这些问题对我们的目标群体产生了影响。这些措施包括指导、财务支持、实习和支持性环境。考虑到目标人群，对这类支持的投资帮助学生实现了通常他们自己无法实现的某些里程碑，包括成功完成学士学位，并成为CSEMS工作大军的贡献成员。BROADER影响：在以知识为基础的全球经济中，对科学和技术教育的人力资源投资是社会和经济福祉的重要基础。作为CSEMS劳动力和教授的一部分，代表不足的群体，包括跨种族的贫困学生、少数民族和妇女，在那些拥有最终学位的人中，代表严重不足。通过招募和准备这批学生攻读和获得CSEMS学科的本科学位，并鼓励他们考虑这些领域的专业职业，以及让他们接受CSEMS的研究生教育，我们正在帮助建设我们的国家迫切需要的能力，以维持其科学、技术和工程基础设施。

Resources In Support of Excellence (RISE) utilizes National Science Foundation's scholarship funds in conjunction with aggressive recruitment and retention programs and other supports to significantly increase the University of South Florida's enrollment of talented low income, underrepresented, first generation, adult, and transfer students in engineering, computer science, and mathematics. The RISE program exceeds the offerings of the traditional student scholarship programs by implementing programs and supports that focus on students' developmental needs as they progress through theirCSEMS degree preparation programs as well as their career and professional development training programs. Thus, the USF/NSF RISE Program recruits and selects a cohort of 29 low-income talented undergraduate students that also includes ethnic minorities and women, for the purpose of providing them with intensive supports and mentorship that ensures success in the CSEMS disciplines. As part of this goal, a cadre of mentors from CSEMS disciplines are selected to work as discipline based counselors. An Advisory Board consisting of high tech companies, USF administrators and faculty, and the school district oversees all programmatic and management needs of project RISE. A multi-faceted approach is used to attract different cadres of students from low-income and under represented groups. This includes aggressively recruiting entering first year students to targeting upper level students during the last 2 years of their program in CSEMS based disciplines. INTELLECTUAL MERIT: Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of some key support issues that make a difference for our target group. Those include mentorship, financial supports, internships, and a supportive environment. Given the target population, investments in such supports help students achieve certain milestones that ordinarily they would not have achieved on their own, including successful completion of baccalaureate degrees, and becoming contributing members of the CSEMS workforce.BROADER IMPACT: Investments in human resources for science and technology education are essential underpinnings for social and economic well being in a global, knowledge-based economy. Underrepresented groups, including impoverished students across ethnic lines, ethnic minorities, and women are sorely underrepresented among those holding terminal degrees as part of CSEMS workforce and the professorate. By recruiting and preparing this cadre of students to pursue and obtain undergraduate degrees in CSEMS disciplines and by encouraging them to consider professional careers in those areas as well exposing them to graduate education in CSEMS, we are helping to build the capacity that our nation sorely needs to sustain its science, technology, and engineering infrastructures.