Realizing UB's Readiness, Innovation and Commitment to STEM Student Support

布法罗大学（UB），纽约州立大学提出了一个项目，题为：实现UB的准备，创新和对STEM学生支持的承诺。该计划是为希望在本科和研究生阶段学习科学、技术工程或数学（STEM）课程的有才华的未被充分代表的学生制定一个全面的奖学金和支持计划。额外的服务包括辅导、STEM看门人课程的补充指导、教师指导研究机会、服务学习和带薪实习。将提供20个为期4年的5000美元本科生奖学金和6个为期2年的10000美元研究生奖学金。该计划的智力价值在于UB的学术课程与研究，服务学习，学术支持和奖学金的跨学科结合，为每个学生单独开发。一个关键的假设是，并不是缺乏支持服务限制了学生的成功，而是有意或无意地决定不参加这些项目。更广泛的影响包括将STEM指导教师与代表性不足的STEM学生整合到扩展学习社区（ELCs）的发展中。通过提供广泛的支持网络，学习社区将增加所有类别未被充分代表的学生的参与。其目的是个性化的指导将吸引更多的学生，特别是那些可能是第一代大学生。

The University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York proposes a project entitled: Realizing UB's Readiness, Innovation and Commitment to STEM Student Support. The plan is to develop a comprehensive scholarship and support program for talented underrepresented students who wish to pursue a course of study in science, technology engineering or mathematics (STEM) at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Additional wrap around services include tutoring, supplemental instruction in STEM gatekeeper courses, faculty mentoring research opportunities service learning and paid internships. Twenty four-year $5,000 undergraduate scholarships and six two-year $10,000 graduate scholarship are to be offered. The intellectual merit of the program is the interdisciplinary alignment of UB's academic programs with research, service learning, academic support and scholarships individually developed fro each student. A key hypothesis is that it is not the lack of support services that limits student's success, but rather the intentional or unintentional decision not to participate in such programs. The broader impacts involve the integration of STEM mentoring faculty with underrepresented STEM students in the development of expanded learning communities (ELCs). The learning communities are to increase the participation of all categories of underrepresented students, by providing an extensive support network. The intent is that personalized mentoring will engage more students particularly those who may be first generation college students.