PAESMEM Organizational Award: Purchase College, SUNY / Community College Mentoring Program

纽约州立大学购买学院于2000年开始了学士学位和超越科学的指导计划。该项目已经指导了201名代表不足的学生在学术上取得成功，并完成了科学、技术、工程和数学领域(STEM)的学士学位。该计划为社区大学学生提供一整套辅导活动，帮助他们完成副学士学位、转到四年制大学并完成学士学位。这些活动包括学术监督、学术咨询、家教、同伴辅导、职业咨询、家长活动，以及暑期密集的研究项目。该项目的学生获得S学士学位的比例是全国社区学院学生平均水平的三倍；70%的学生完成了STEM领域的S学士学位。在完成学士学位的参与学生中，22%的人在研究生院继续他们的STEM学习。一名学生已经完成了临床心理学的博士学位，其他几名学生已经完成了硕士学位，或者正在研究生院学习生物化学、神经药理学、医学和验光；还有几名学生作为研究科学家在科学工作者队伍中工作。文凭及以上课程在帮助代表不足的少数族裔、低收入和第一代大学生在STEM学科取得成功方面非常成功。在全国范围内，非裔美国人和西班牙裔学生的学士学位完成率大大低于非西班牙裔白人学生。该计划指导这些学生在学术上取得成功，完成STEM领域的学士学位，为他们进入STEM劳动力做好准备。到目前为止，在接受服务的201名学生中，70%是代表不足的少数族裔。该计划加强了与Purchase College合作的六所社区大学为这些学生提供支持的基础设施。这是通过社区学院校长一年两次的会议来讨论项目挑战和学生成功故事，为社区学院教职员工举办的改善科学入门课程教学的教育学研讨会，以及对学生的合作学术监督来实现的。

State University of New York, Purchase College began its Baccalaureate and Beyond Science Mentoring Program in 2000. The program has mentored 201 underrepresented students to succeed academically and complete Bachelor's degrees in science technology, engineering and math fields (STEM). The program provides a full array of mentoring activities for community college students to assist them to complete their Associates degrees, transfer to a four-year college and complete Bachelor's degrees. These include academic monitoring, academic advising, tutoring, peer mentoring, career counseling, parent events, and an intensive research program during the summer. Students in the program are completing Bachelor?s degrees at three times the national average for community college students; 70% complete Bachelor?s degrees in STEM fields. Twenty-two percent of participating students who have completed Bachelor degrees have continued their STEM studies in graduate school. One student has already completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, while several others have completed Masters Degrees or are in graduate school studying Biochemistry, Neuropharmacology, Medicine and Optometry; several are working in the scientific workforce as research scientists. The Baccalaureate and Beyond Program is highly successful at assisting underrepresented minority, low-income and first-generation college students to succeed in STEM disciplines. Nationally, the rates of bachelor degree completion for African American and Hispanic students are substantially below those of non-Hispanic Caucasian students. The program mentors these students to succeed academically to complete Bachelor's degrees in STEM fields in order to prepare them for the STEM workforce. Of the 201 students served thus far, 70% have been underrepresented minorities. The program enhances the infrastructure for supporting these students at the six community colleges that partner with Purchase College. This is accomplished through biannual meetings of community college presidents to discuss program challenges and student success stories, pedagogy workshops for community college faculty to improve the teaching of introductory science courses, and collaborative academic monitoring of students.