Achieving Community College Excellence for Scholarship Success (ACCESS)

ACCESS（Achieving Community College Excellence for Scholarship Success）计划为学术上有才华、经济上有困难的学生提供奖学金，使他们能够在完成科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科的副学士学位后进入劳动力市场。目标包括改善学生的教育机会，增加奖学金学生的学位成就保留率，改善奖学金参与者的学生支持计划，以及增加国家需要的技术领域受过良好教育和熟练的员工数量。智力优势：STEM学科每学期向25名学生颁发奖学金。目标是（a）75%的ACCESS学者保持或超过2.6平均成绩（GPA）;（B）70%的ACCESS学者坚持到副学士学位的成就;和（c）100%的学生提供转让或就业安置援助。更广泛的影响：作为一个大的服务领域的中学后教育的唯一认可的提供者，学院的使命是提供访问高等教育的机会，以社区居民。通过向STEM学科专业的学术天赋和经济困难的学生提供奖学金，该学院满足了该地区农业产业和学生的需求。超过70%的学生参加学院是第一代谁接触到科学的职业机会很少。大约40%的学生是西班牙裔，这些学生中有很大一部分来自父母是移民工人或外地劳工的家庭。招募这些学生从事科学事业不仅影响他们的未来，而且还提高了他们社区朋友和家人的科学意识。改善STEM教育和STEM奖学金所产生的更广泛的影响传达了这样一个信息，即科学领域存在令人兴奋的、有利可图的职业，农业职业并不限于实地工作。

The ACCESS (Achieving Community College Excellence for Scholarship Success) program is supporting scholarships for academically talented, financially needy students and enabling them to enter the workforce following completion of an associate degree in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Goals include improving educational opportunities for students, increasing retention of scholarship students to degree achievement, improving student support programs for scholarship participants, and increasing the numbers of well-educated and skilled employees in technical areas of national need.Intellectual Merit: Scholarships are being awarded to 25 students each semester in STEM disciplines. The goals are (a) 75% of ACCESS Scholars maintain or exceed a 2.6 grade point average (GPA); (b) 70% of ACCESS Scholars persist until associate degree achievement; and (c) 100% of students are provided transfer or job placement assistance. Broader Impact: As the sole accredited provider of postsecondary education in a large service area, the mission of the college is to provide accessible higher education opportunities to community residents. By offering scholarships to academically talented, financially needy students majoring in STEM disciplines, the college is meeting the needs of both the agricultural industries in the district and students. Over 70% of the students attending the college are first-generation who have had little exposure to scientific career opportunities. About 40% of the students are Hispanic and a great number of these students come from families where the parents are migrant workers or field laborers. Recruitment of these students into scientific careers not only impacts their future, but it also increases the scientific awareness of friends and family members in their communities. The broader impact resulting from improved STEM education and STEM scholarships conveys the message that exciting, lucrative careers exist in the sciences and that agricultural careers are not limited to field work.