A Scholarship Program to Increase Retention in Engineering (ASPIRE): Improving Work-Study-Life Balance

这个项目是为了资助纽黑文大学工程专业学生的奖学金项目。这样做的目的是为了提高工科学生的留读率，特别是在大二和大三，这些学生具有学习潜力，但由于经济问题和/或生活-工作-学习平衡问题而面临无法完成学业的风险。这将通过以下方式实现：根据经济需要和成绩，为二年级和三年级的被录取学生提供奖学金；向社区大学转学学生招聘和提供奖学金；提供支持服务，包括同伴辅导、会议、讲座、演讲和职业规划研讨会；以及增加学生参与有助于坚持不懈的学院和大学范围内的活动。这些活动还将有助于提高四年或五年毕业率的长期目标。该项目的更广泛影响包括：通过招收社区大学转校生来增加多样性；通过奖学金计划的服务学习活动改善STEM对初中和高中受众的影响；加强与行业在实习和职业规划方面的合作；以及发展学生支持服务，最终使更广泛的学生群体以及奖学金获得者受益。该方案的结果将予以传播，以使其他研究人员和机构能够考虑可能对他们有用的方案选择。

This project is to fund a scholarship program for engineering students at the University of New Haven. The goal is to improve retention, particularly in the sophomore and junior years, for engineering students who show academic potential but are at risk of not completing their studies due to financial concerns and/or life-work-study balance issues. This will be accomplished by: providing scholarships for sophomore and junior level matriculated students based on both financial need and merit; recruiting and providing scholarships to community college transfer students; providing support services including peer tutors, conferences, lectures, presentations, and career planning workshops; and increasing student engagement in college- and university-wide activities that contribute to persistence. These activities will also contribute to the longer-term goal of improved four or five-year graduation rates.The broader impact of the project includes: increasing diversity by recruiting community college transfer students; improving STEM exposure to middle and high school audiences through the scholarship program's service learning activities; strengthening collaborations with industry for internships and career planning; and developing student support services that ultimately benefit the broader student body as well as the scholarship recipients. The results of the program will be disseminated to enable other researchers and institutions to consider programming options that may be useful to them.