Recruiting, Retaining, and Graduating Appalachian and Minority Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Majors ( AMSTEMM)

肯塔基州阿巴拉契亚大学和少数民族科学，技术，工程和数学专业（英国AMSTEMM）计划通过一些相关活动招募，保留和毕业STEM专业。 招聘阶段包括提供和协调高中数学支持，校园暑期科学夏令营，参观学校，教师支持，家长计划和周六活动，如职业咨询。 英国AMSTEMM提供奖学金参与指导的研究经验，并作为同行导师，让学生负担得起英国。 有一个协调一致的努力，以说服一年级学生，特别是妇女，参加了微积分课程的特殊部分，重新调整他们的专业选择STEM学科。 保留阶段包括专门的专业咨询;教师指导;密集的夏季数学课程;增加对微积分预科学生数学Excel程序的支持;特别的第一年，基于地点的探索研讨会;指导研究经验;同行指导计划;和双周研究座谈会。 毕业阶段，旨在确保专业使他们的学位定期取得进展，并“按时”毕业，包括参加双周研究座谈会;专业咨询;同行指导;指导研究经验;和基于地方的课程在各种STEM学科-课程有趣，具有挑战性，并与学生的生活和家庭社区相关。这些创新技术的成功，如让家长广泛参与大学前的招聘和定向;提供密集的大学前数学测试，咨询和课程;并提供基于地方的发现研讨会，丰富研讨会和STEM课程，为其他努力增加STEM入学率提供了一个模式。

The University of Kentucky Appalachian and Minority Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Majors (UK AMSTEMM) program recruits, retains, and graduates STEM majors through a number of related activities. The recruitment phase includes providing and coordinating high school mathematics support, summer science camps on-campus, visits to schools, teacher support, programs for parents, and Saturday events, such as career advising. UK AMSTEMM provides fellowships for participating in mentored research experiences and serving as peer mentors, to allow students to afford UK. There is a concerted effort to persuade first-year students, especially women, enrolled in special sections of pre-calculus courses to redirect their choices of majors to STEM disciplines. The retention phase includes dedicated professional advising; faculty mentoring; intensive summer mathematics courses; increased support for the Math Excel program for pre-calculus students; special first year, place-based, Discovery Seminars; mentored research experiences; a peer mentoring program; and bi-weekly research colloquia. The graduation phase, intended to ensure that majors make regular progress toward their degrees and graduate "on time," includes participation in biweekly research colloquia; professional advising; peer mentoring; mentored research experiences; and place-based courses in the various STEM disciplines - courses that are interesting, challenging, and relevant to the students' lives and home communities. The success of such innovative techniques as involving parents extensively in pre-college recruiting and orientation; offering intensive pre-college mathematics testing, counseling, and courses; and providing place-based Discovery Seminars, enrichment seminars, and STEM courses provides a model for other efforts to increase STEM enrollments.