Partnership for Retention Improvement in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science

这个STEP项目的重点是保留。PRIMES——数学、工程和科学留用改善伙伴关系——是该大学的一个多学院合作项目，旨在联合艺术与科学学院、Speed工程学院（Speed）和教育与人类发展学院的教师，解决导致本科STEM项目留用率低（因此毕业率低）的已确定障碍。有两个主要组成部分（或链）。第一部分侧重于STEM课程教与学的转变。大一的STEM辅导是这方面活动的标志之一。它直接影响科学轨道入门课程的STEM新手本科生，并通过利用本科助教（UTAs）和培训UTAs的教师以及与学生更多互动的活动间接影响更高级的STEM学生和STEM教师。第二部分的目标是通过在大学范围内实施特定学科的社区建设活动来提高保留率，这些活动可以培养STEM学生对STEM部门的认同感。最终的目标是到2016年将文理学院授予生物学、化学、地球科学、数学和物理学士学位的人数增加25%，到2016年将Speed学院授予工程学士和硕士学位的人数增加25%。

The focus of this STEP project is on retention. PRIMES - Partnership for Retention Improvement in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science - is a multi-college collaboration at the university that is intended to unite faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences, the Speed School of Engineering (Speed), and the College of Education and Human Development in tackling identified hurdles that contribute to poor retention (and thus low graduation rates) in undergraduate STEM programs. There are two primary components (or strands). The first strand focuses on the transformation of teaching and learning in STEM courses. STEM tutoring in the freshman year is one of the hallmarks of activities in this strand. It directly impacts novice STEM undergraduates in science-track introductory courses, and indirectly impacts the more senior STEM students as well as STEM faculty through activities that make use of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) and faculty who train the UTAs as well as interact more with students. The second strand targets improved retention by implementing University-wide and discipline-specific community building activities that foster STEM students' sense of identification with STEM departments. Ultimately, the goal is to increase the number of Bachelor's degrees awarded in biology, chemistry, geosciences, mathematics and physics in the College of Arts & Sciences by 25% by 2016 and to increase the number of Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Engineering awarded in the Speed School by 25% by 2016.