Success Partnerships for Increasing Recruitment into Technology (SPIRIT)

这一探索性项目将开发增加技术领域招聘的成功伙伴关系(SPIRIT)，它将整合和加强中学、社区学院和加州大学河滨分校(UCR)正在进行的有效计划。南加州的圣贝纳迪诺和河滨两县加起来超过10个州，人口超过400万，但该地区在大学录取率和经济机会方面落后于加州的大部分地区。该项目将建立在由圣贝纳迪诺县学校总监运营的教育联盟一年来的倡议基础上，在全县的高中建立工程预科课程。UCR将把外展活动、辅导、辅导、设计经验和教师讲习班纳入这一倡议。该项目将提高人们对工程的认识，突出数学和科学教学的相关性，通过加强学生的数学和科学准备，提高学生在大学工程研究中取得成功的准备，并在学校教师、学校管理人员、地区管理人员、社区学院和四年制院校之间建立持续的对话。该项目将强调在工程领域取得成功所必需的基本工程技能，通过鼓励更多的学生进入工程领域，这将有助于确保我们在技术领域的持续领导地位。该项目将接触到大量代表不足的少数族裔学生，招收更多这些学生将增加从K-12到大学工程专业的渠道，并使其多样化。加州大学伯克利分校是美国最多元化的研究密集型大学之一。大约35%的本科生是代表不足的少数族裔，它是一个经认可的西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)。此外，参与该项目的学校也非常多样化。让UCR的大学生辅导高中生的数学和科学将向这些学生展示，来自与他们相似的社区和文化背景的人可以在大学取得成功，并在工程领域取得职业生涯。这些活动还将建立大学生的社区意识和承诺。

This exploratory project will develop Success Partnership for Increasing Recruitment into Technology (SPIRIT), which will integrate and build upon ongoing effective programs at secondary schools, community colleges, and the University of California, Riverside (UCR). San Bernardino and Riverside counties in Southern California together are larger than 10 states and home to more than 4 million people, but the region lags behind much of California in college matriculation rates and economic opportunity. This project will build on a year-old initiative from the Alliance for Education, operated by the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, to establish pre-engineering curricula in high schools throughout the county. UCR will integrate outreach activities, mentoring, tutoring, design experiences, and teacher workshops into this initiative. The project will raise awareness of engineering and highlight the relevance of math and science instruction, increase student readiness to succeed in college engineering studies by strengthening their math and science preparation, and establish ongoing dialog among school teachers, school administrators, district administrators, community colleges, and four-year institutions? faculty and administrators.The project will emphasize fundamental engineering skills necessary for success in engineering which will help to secure our continuing leadership in technology by encouraging more students to enter engineering. The project will reach a large number of underrepresented minority students, and recruiting more of these students will increase and diversify the pipeline from K-12 to university engineering programs. UCR is one of America?s most diverse research-intensive universities. Approximately 35% of undergraduates are underrepresented minorities, and it is an accredited Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). In addition, the schools involved in this project are also highly diverse. Having UCR college students tutor high school students in math and science will demonstrate to these students that people from neighborhoods and cultural backgrounds similar to their own can succeed in college and go on to careers in engineering. The activities also will build a sense of community and commitment on the part of the college students.