Expanding the STEM Pool With Transfer Scholarships (ESP)

科学与工程学院在得克萨斯州A M大学科珀斯克里斯蒂（TAMU-CC），一个西班牙裔服务机构，与地区社区学院的支持谁拥有高少数民族和女学生入学率，是提供奖学金，以学术人才和经济上有需要的社区学院的学生转移到计算机科学，工程和数学专业在TAMU-CC，让他们完成学士学位。“用转学奖学金扩大STEM人才库”（ESP）正在从西班牙裔学生人数众多的地区社区学院招募26名大学生作为ESP学者。五年项目是一个招聘工具，为每个ESP学者提供长达三年的资金，这可能会通过其他奖学金和经济援助来增加。 该项目通过在现有的学生服务基础设施（指导，学术咨询，研究机会，职业咨询，专业发展）内的学习社区队列经验留住学者，并为转学生量身定制支持服务，如旨在减轻转学冲击的定向课程。 至少有26名本科毕业生。计算机科学、工程学和数学的学位正在产生，许多来自代表性不足的群体，从而增加了这些关键领域的国家专业劳动力的多样性。 所有学生都被鼓励继续研究生院利用NSF LSAMP和其他本科研究计划。 有些人可能会攻读博士学位，并作为未来科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学生的榜样。

The College of Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC), a Hispanic-Serving Institution, with the support of area community colleges who have high enrollments of minority and female students, is providing scholarships to academically talented and financially needy community college students transferring into computer science, engineering, and mathematics majors at TAMU-CC, to allow them to complete a baccalaureate degree. "Expanding the STEM Pool with Transfer Scholarships" (ESP) is recruiting twenty-six college students from regional community colleges with large Hispanic student populations as ESP Scholars. The five-year project is a recruitment tool providing each ESP Scholar up to three years of funding, which may be augmented by other scholarships and financial aid. The project is retaining scholars through a learning-community cohort experience within an existing infrastructure of student services (mentoring, academic advising, research opportunities, career counseling, professional development) augmented by support services tailored for transfer students, such as an orientation course designed to alleviate transfer shock. At least twenty-six graduates with B.S. degrees in computer science, engineering, and mathematics are being produced, many from underrepresented groups, thereby increasing the diversity of the nation's professional workforce in these critical fields. All students are being encouraged to continue to graduate school by leveraging NSF LSAMP and other undergraduate research programs. Some may pursue doctoral degrees and serve as role models for future Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) students.