Implementation Grant: XU Pre-Graduate Scholars Program

泽维尔大学实施项目名为“徐研究生预科学者计划”，旨在解决非裔美国人在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科中代表性不足的问题。增加非裔美国人从STEM学科毕业并进入研究生院的人数是泽维尔大学二十年来一直关注的主要目标之一。Xavier之前的HBCU-UP项目在解决这个问题上相对成功，但由于卡特里娜飓风在实施的第一年造成的中断，无法完全实现其项目目标；87%的教职员工失去了家园，25%的教职员工因为学费收入的损失而被解雇。尽管卡特里娜飓风过后入学人数急剧下降，但HBCU-UP帮助泽维尔大学在卡特里娜飓风过后持续提高STEM的招生和留校率，并继续将高比例的STEM学生送入研究生院。该项目的目标是：1)在未来五年内，将理科/数学教育专业的高素质本科学生的数量增加并保持在100%的水平，以获得初始教师资格认证和硕士学位（M.A.T.）；2)在未来五年内，增加并保留计算机科学、数学、物理和双学位工程专业的新生人数至少50%；3)在未来五年内，将进入STEM学科研究生院的STEM本科生人数增加20%。这些目标将通过扩大STEM教师准备活动来实现，包括为潜在的STEM教育专业提供暑期充实计划，加强从目标高中招募STEM学生，继续改进学生保留策略，提供本科研究经验，并扩大与STEM学生家长的联系。

The Xavier University implementation project entitled: XU Pre-Graduate Scholars Program, addresses the problem of the underrepresentation of African Americans in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Increasing the number of African Americans graduating in STEM disciplines and moving on to graduate school is one of the primary goals on which Xavier University has been focusing for two decades. Xavier's previous HBCU-UP program was relatively successful in addressing this issue, but was unable to fully reach its project goals due to the disruption that occurred in the first year of implementation caused by Hurricane Katrina; 87% of the faculty and staff lost their homes and 25% of the faculty had to be terminated due to loss of tuition revenue. Although enrollment dropped dramatically after Katrina, HBCU-UP helped Xavier to consistently increase post-Katrina STEM recruitment and retention rates, and to continue to send high percentages of STEM students to graduate school. The goals of this project are to: 1) increase and retain the number of highly qualified undergraduate students majoring in science/math education matriculating towards initial teacher certification and the Masters Degree (M.A.T.) by 100% over the next five years; 2) increase and retain the number of entering freshman majoring in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics and Dual Degree Engineering by at least 50% over the next five years; and 3) increase the number of STEM undergraduate students entering graduate school in STEM disciplines by 20% over the next five years. These goals will be accomplished by expanding STEM teacher preparation activities, including summer enrichment programs for potential STEM education majors, strengthening recruitment of STEM students from targeted high schools, continuing to improve strategies for student retention, providing undergraduate research experiences, and expanding outreach to parents of STEM students.