The STEM Scholarship Program

该项目是（1）在四年内颁发160个奖学金，（2）利用NSF资金筹集额外的奖学金资金，（3）发展学者团队开展服务学习项目，（4）通过研讨会提高学生的专业精神，（5）指导奖学金队列，（6）保持学位成绩，（7）防止学生不得不停止，（8）为学生提供更多的职业接触，（9）为学生提供更好的设计体验，（10）改善学术援助计划，（11）增加STEM入学率，（12）专注于从代表性不足的群体中招募更多的学生。智力优势：学院有一个全面和成功的工程计划。学生花两年时间完成微积分，物理，化学，静力学，动力学，热力学，流体力学，电路和其他课程。毕业后，学生转入大学完成学位。自1992年以来，75%的物理学学生毕业于大学，获得STEM学位。在过去的15年里，入学人数从10名学生持续增长到196名学生。物理，化学，数学，计算机科学和工程技术专业包括在这个学习者社区，并有资格获得奖学金。 该项目通过研究提供信息，并展示了学习社区和有效招聘策略的影响。更广泛的影响：招聘和保留项目对项目吸引新STEM学生并使他们能够坚持完成学位的能力的影响有可能被广泛采用。第一代大学生（占大学生总数的82%）的经验表明，他们擅长研究所示的策略，以使代表性不足的群体的学生受益。该项目将招募范围扩大到拥有大量西班牙裔，索马里和苗族人口的大都会地区。它通过使没有经济来源的有才华的学生能够入学来加强学院的教育基础设施。大量的年轻人（否则他们不会）正在成为STEM教育的专业人士，有权影响社会。

This project is (1) awarding 160 scholarships over four years, (2) leveraging NSF money to raise additional scholarship funding, (3) developing scholar teams to undertake service learning projects, (4) enhancing student professionalism through workshops, (5) mentoring the scholarship cohort, (6) maintaining retention to degree achievement, (7) preventing students from having to stop-out, (8) providing students with increased career exposure, (9) offering students an improved design experience, (10) improving academic assistance programs, (11) increasing STEM enrollment, and (12) focusing on recruiting more students from underrepresented groups. Intellectual Merit: The college has a comprehensive and successful engineering program. Students spend two years completing calculus, physics, chemistry, statics, dynamics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, circuits, and other courses. After graduation, students transfer to a university to complete their degree. Since 1992, 75% of the students who started physics graduated from a university with a STEM degree. There has been consistent enrollment growth from 10 students to 196 students over the past 15 years. Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering Technology majors are included in this community of learners and are eligible for scholarships. This project is informed by research and demonstrates the impact of Learning Communities and effective recruiting strategies. Broader Impact: The impact of the recruiting and retention projects on a program's ability to attract new STEM students and enable them to persist to degree completion has the potential to be widely adapted. The experience with first generation college students (82% of college population) show they excel with the strategies shown by research to benefit students in underrepresented groups. This project expands recruiting into a metro area with large populations of Hispanic, Somali, and Hmong people. It enhances infrastructure of education at the college by enabling talented students without financial resources to attend. Significant numbers of young people (who would not have otherwise) are becoming STEM educated professionals, empowered to impact society.