Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Scholarship Program for Suffolk County Community College

该项目是对先前成功的NSF-CSEM奖学金计划的继续、发展和极大的扩展。与萨福克县社区学院(SCCC)的平均毕业率(24%)和转校率(14%)相比，这一项目(2001年至2006年)的毕业率(71%)和转校率(46%)已经显著提高。增加的其他功能包括：关于经济援助、毕业和转学的增强咨询；更多的暑期实习、研究机会和工作跟踪机会；经常在合作机构进行现场参观；以及为SSTEM/CSEMS奖学金会议增加教员演示、特邀演讲者和非(SCCC)导师。该项目的学术价值包括：(1)由一个在科学、工程和技术方面拥有不同学术背景的项目主任团队实施现有成功的NSF-CSEMS和SCCC-CSEMS联合计划的修订和改进版本；(2)团队中的两名合作个人，他们将大部分时间和精力用于招募女性和少数族裔参加SCCC的科学和工程/技术项目(一名现任NSF-CSEMS联合PI和工程学教授，他设计、开发并目前指导了学院针对在工程和技术领域从事非传统职业的女性的第一个性别平等计划，以及继续教育办公室的一名主要管理人员，他领导了许多少数族裔招聘计划，包括SCCC的大学科学与技术教育计划、科学与技术进入计划和自由伙伴关系计划)；以及(3)与道林学院、布鲁克海文国家实验室和石溪大学合作，为学者们提供独特的教育和研究机会。该项目的更广泛影响包括，通过与CSTEP合作，每年将10-15名低收入和/或代表性不足的学生转化为NSF-STRESS计划，更加重视加强SCCC当前核心NSF学者群体的多样性。

This project continues, builds upon, and significantly expands a previously successful NSF-CSEM Scholarship Program. This program (operating from 2001-2006) has already demonstrated significantly higher graduation (71%) and transfer (46%) rates in comparison to the average graduation (24%) and transfer (14%) rates at Suffolk County Community College (SCCC). Additional features being added include: enhanced counseling regarding financial aid, graduation, and transfers; more summer internships, research opportunities, and job shadowing opportunities; frequent on-site tours at partnering institutions; and additional faculty presentations, invited speakers, and non- (SCCC) mentors for SSTEM/CSEMS scholarship meetings.The intellectual merits of this project include: (1) the implementation of a revised and improved version of the existing successful joint NSF-CSEMS and SCCC-CSEMS program by a team of project directors who possess diverse academic backgrounds in the sciences, engineering and technology; (2) two Co-PIs on the team who devote much of their time and efforts to recruiting women and underrepresented minorities into SCCC's science and engineering/technology programs (a current NSF-CSEMS Co-PI and engineering professor who designed, developed, and currently directs the college's first gender equity program for women pursuing nontraditional careers in engineering and technology, and a key administrator in the Office of Continuing Education, who directs numerous minority recruitment programs, including SCCC's Collegiate Science & Technology Education Program, Science & Technology Entry Program, and Liberty Partnerships Program); and (3) a unique combination of educational and research opportunities for the Scholars, offered in collaboration with Dowling Colleges, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University.The broader impacts of the project include a greater emphasis on enhancing diversity within SCCC's current core group of NSF Scholars by collaborating with CSTEP to transition 10-15 low income and/or underrepresented students into the NSF-STEMS Program each year.