Environmental Scholars: A Scholarship Program in Environmental Chemistry, Biology and Engineering

环境学者计划是由纽约的州立大学-环境科学与林业学院（SUNY-ESF）提供的，这是一个独特的学院，在64个校园的SUNY系统中，具有与开发和管理可再生自然资源有关的教育，研究和公共服务的专门使命，了解世界生态系统的结构和功能，以及维护和提高环境质量。 SUNY-ESF的研究和服务项目旨在创造新知识，对所有人的生活质量产生积极和有影响的影响。 正是考虑到这些问题，环境学者计划为那些表现出显著科学天赋的学生提供奖学金，对他们来说，大学教育的经济负担可能会阻碍他们在化学，生物学，工程和环境科学等学科中获得学士学位。 奖学金颁发给三批学生-新生、剩余三年学术课程的转学生和已经获得副学士学位的转学生。 环境学者计划非常重视队列经验，为团体提供的支持服务，为学生提供的机会，以调查“适合”他们的预期职业道路和坚实的职业咨询。 方案的主要目标是： (a)选择一个小型的多文化多学科群体，重点是从传统上代表性不足的科学群体（或特别是SUNY-ESF）中招募学生; (b)创造机会，促进有思想和教育意义的跨文化交流和同志情谊; (c)为新生提供支持，以克服传统的第一学期过渡和调整的障碍; (d)通过服务学习，创造跨学科的协作学习环境，帮助学生调查和反思他们的职业道路; (e)利用教师指导，以提供一个连接到整个学院; (f)需要特定学科的顶点经验; (g)为学生提供经济激励，以实现可用于研究项目的学术卓越，特别是那些具有实地经验的学生; (h)提供职业发展课程，如简历写作，礼仪和面试技巧。通过努力为环境学者提供一个有凝聚力的计划，项目领导团队希望获得和传播对帮助学生坚持学业的编程类型的理解，完善他们的职业规划，并在他们选择的职业道路上取得成功，并将进一步推动一个重视和促进包容性卓越的校园的目标，整合多样性和质量举措，以创造更强大，更持久的教育体验。

The Environmental Scholars program is offered by the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), a unique college in the 64-campus SUNY system with a specialized mission of education, research and public service related to developing and managing renewable natural resources, understanding the structure and function of the world's ecosystems, and maintaining and enhancing environmental quality. SUNY-ESF's research and service programs are directed at creating new knowledge that has a positive and influential impact upon the quality of life for all people. It is with these issues in mind, that the Environmental Scholars program provides scholarships to students that have shown significant scientific talent and for whom the financial burden of a college education may be a deterrent to the pursuit of a baccalaureate degree in the disciplines of chemistry, biology, engineering and environmental science. Scholarships are given to three cohorts of students - incoming freshmen, transfer students with three years of academic courses remaining, and transfer students who have already achieved an Associate's degree. The Environmental Scholars program pays careful attention to the cohort experience, to the support services offered to the group, to the opportunities provided to the students to investigate "the fit" of their intended career path and to solid career counseling. Key program objectives are to: (a) select a small multicultural multidisciplinary cohort with emphasis placed on recruiting students from traditionally underrepresented groups in science (or at SUNY-ESF specifically); (b) create opportunities for thoughtful and educational cross-cultural communication and camaraderie; (c) offer support for the incoming students to get through the traditional first semester hurdles of transition and adjustment; (d) create an interdisciplinary collaborative learning environment, through service learning, to help students investigate and reflect upon their intended career path; (e) utilize faculty mentorship to provide a connection to the college as a whole; (f) require a discipline-specific capstone experience; (g) offer financial incentives to students to achieve academic excellence that can be used toward research programs, particularly those with field experiences; and (h) offer courses in career development such as resume writing, etiquette and interview skills.Through its efforts to provide a cohesive program for the Environmental Scholars, the project leadership team expects to gain and disseminate understanding of the types of programming that helps students persist academically, refine their career plans and find success in their chosen career paths and will further the goals of a campus that values and fosters Inclusive Excellence, the integration of diversity and quality initiatives to create a stronger and more durable educational experience.