Mathematics, Engineering, Technology, and Science Scholarship Program

这项数学、工程、技术和科学(METS)奖学金计划建立在布朗克斯社区学院(BCC)先前非常成功的奖学金计划的基础上，BCC是纽约城市大学系统的一所两年制少数族裔服务机构。通过每年资助20至25名学生，该计划的中心目标是增加科学领域准备充分的BCC毕业生的数量-包括继续读四年制大学的学生和直接加入高科技工作大军的学生。奖学金获得者从BCC的数学、科学和科学技术课程以及在BCC入学时从当地高中招募。Mets奖学金计划还支持从BCC毕业并在大三转到纽约城市大学四年制院校学习的奖学金获得者，如果他们的学术地位仍然很好，是全日制学生，并且是BCC教员导师的研究助理。总共，一个学生最多可以支持六个学期。学生学者和BCC教职员工组成了Mets Academy，仿照BCC的科学学院和荣誉计划。在学院，每个学生都被分配了一名教职员工，在学生参与项目的整个过程中，他是学生的导师和顾问。由于STEM领域的所有学生都学习微积分和化学或物理，因此学生群体通过参加公共课程而产生。此外，数学系、物理系和化学系的系主任开会确定课程的时间表，使它们不会重叠。这使得同样的学生可以选择微积分I或II与物理I或II或化学I或II。由于生物专业的学生必须学习四个学期的化学，他们也从这种分组时间表中受益。大都会学院的额外学生支持服务进一步加强了相互支持的队列关系。例如，学院赞助继续接受教育的校友或在技术行业工作的校友的讲座。该学院还通过与Hostos社区学院的合作，为理工科学生提供辅导，包括同行主导的物理和数学强化研讨会。为了加深学生对科学研究的了解，大都会学院为学生提供有关研究机会的信息，并鼓励他们参加研究丰富研讨会。当奖学金获得者在BCC接近他们晚些时候的学期时，他们被引导到职业服务办公室参加关于面试技巧和简历写作的研讨会，并在他们临近毕业时被引导到转学中心。正在通过评估以下各项来研究大都会奖学金方案的成功：-奖学金获得者毕业并转到四年制大学STEM专业或在技术领域找到工作的百分比；-BCC STEM领域的入学人数增加；-BCC STEM专业的女性入学人数增加；以及-BCC参加STEM课程的高中生人数增加。

This Mathematics, Engineering, Technology, and Science (METS) Scholarship Program builds on a prior, highly successful scholarship program at Bronx Community College (BCC), a minority-serving, two-year institution of the City University of New York system. Through support of 20 to 25 students each year, the central goal of the program is to increase the number of well-prepared BCC graduates in scientific fields - both those who continue to a four-year college and those who directly join the high technology work force. Scholarship recipients are recruited from mathematics, science and scientific technology courses at BCC as well as from local high schools as they matriculate at BCC. The METS Scholarship Program also supports scholarship recipients who graduate from BCC and transfer to a four-year institution of the City University of New York for their junior year, if they are still in good academic standing, are full-time students, and are research associates with a BCC faculty mentor. In total, a student can be supported for a maximum of six semesters. Student scholars and BCC faculty members constitute the METS Academy, modeled on BCC's Science Academy and Honors Program. In the Academy, each student is assigned a faculty member who is the student's mentor and advisor throughout the student's participation in the program. Since all students in STEM fields take calculus and either chemistry or physics, student cohorts arise through participation in common courses. In addition, the chairs of the mathematics, physics and chemistry departments meet to determine the schedules for the courses so that they do not overlap. This enables the same students to take Calculus I or II with Physics I or II or Chemistry I or II. As Biology majors have to take four semesters of chemistry, they also benefit from this block scheduling. Additional student support services of the METS Academy further enhance mutually supportive cohort relationships. For example, the Academy sponsors talks by alumni who are continuing their education or who work in the technology industry. The Academy also offers tutoring, including peer-led enrichment workshops in physics and mathematics for science and engineering students through a collaboration with Hostos Community College. To further students' understanding of scientific research, the METS Academy provides students with information about research opportunities and encourages them to enroll in a Research Enrichment Seminar. As they approach their later semesters at BCC, scholarship recipients are directed to the Office of Career Services for workshops on interviewing skills and resume writing and to the Transfer Center as they approach graduation. Success of the METS Scholarship Program is being studied by evaluating the following: - percentage of scholarship recipients who graduate and transfer to a STEM major at a four-year college or find employment in the technology area; - increased enrollment in STEM fields at BCC; - an increase in the number of women enrolled in STEM majors at BCC; and - the number of high school students who enroll in STEM programs at BCC.