Graduate and Transfer STEM Talent Expansion Program (GT-STEP)

蒙哥马利学院的毕业生和转移STEM人才扩展计划是一所公立的、文化多元化的、三校区的社区学院，它提供了一个系统和全面的方法来增加获得副学士学位和/或转到四年制大学作为STEM专业的学生的数量。该计划的主要重点包括：1)修订门户STEM课程，以纳入主动学习策略和补充指导；2)让学生在本科早期参与课堂内外的研究；3)为微积分预科学生提供技术辅助数学辅导。这些核心战略得到了加强的学术咨询和支持、教师和同伴指导、新生暑期桥梁项目以及三个校区教职员工的专业发展的支持。智力优势：该项目建立在完善的最佳实践基础上，以提高STEM学位和转学项目的学生保留率和入学率。项目各部分正在蒙哥马利学院三个校区并行发展；然后，项目工作人员参与全系统的传播和教职员工的专业发展。更广泛的影响：该项目正在增加获得副学士学位和/或转学到四年制大学攻读STEM专业的学生数量，特别强调为参加蒙哥马利学院的不同学生和退伍军人提供服务。从长远来看，该项目将提高院校的能力（如课程改革、支持结构和专业发展），以继续支持STEM学位的获得和转移。此外，它还作为一种模式，在多校区社区大学中开发和整合一个系统的项目，这为全国其他地方考虑采取类似措施的机构提供了参考。

The Graduate and Transfer STEM Talent Expansion Program at Montgomery College -- a public, culturally diverse, three-campus community college -- provides a systematic and comprehensive approach to increasing the number of students who attain an associate's degree and/or transfer to four-year institutions as STEM majors. Major foci of the program include 1) revision of gateway STEM courses to incorporate active-learning strategies and supplemental instruction, 2) engagement of students in research, within and beyond the classroom, early in their undergraduate years, and 3) technology-assisted mathematics tutoring for pre-calculus students. These core strategies are supported by enhanced academic advising and support, faculty and peer mentoring, a summer bridge program for entering students, and professional development of faculty and staff across the three campuses.Intellectual Merit: The project builds on well-established best practices for increasing retention in and recruitment of students into STEM degree and transfer programs. Project elements are being developed in parallel at each of the three Montgomery College campuses; project staff members then engage in system-wide dissemination and professional development of faculty and staff. Broader Impacts: The project is increasing the number of students who attain an associate's degree and/or transfer to four-year institutions as STEM majors, with particular emphasis on serving the diverse students and returning veterans who attend Montgomery College. In the longer term, the project enhances institutional capacity (e.g., curricular reform, support structures, and professional development) for continued support of increased STEM degree attainment and transfer. In addition, it is serving as a model approach to developing and integrating a systematic program across a multiple-campus community college, which informs institutions considering similar efforts elsewhere in the nation.