Creating Opportunities & Access in Science and Technology

诺克斯学院S-STEM海岸计划(在科学和技术领域创造机会和机会)增加了有经济需求的有学术天赋的学生的数量，他们完成STEM学位并进入STEM研究生学位课程和职业生涯。该项目的对象是有经济需要的一年级全日制学生，他们表现出攻读STEM学位的动机和能力，包括第一代学生和STEM领域代表性不足的群体的学生。该项目以考生为目标，招募他们进入STEM入门课程，提供补充的支持服务，旨在减轻可能阻碍其他合格学生继续攻读STEM专业的挫折。该项目还利用了所有生物学、化学和生物化学学生之间的天然亲和力，这些学生拥有共同的学位要求。智力优势来自为学生提供的强大的支持服务和资源网络，这些支持服务和资源将被重新调整、定制和营销，以瞄准有经济需要、具有很强STEM潜力的学业优秀学生。S-STEM项目建立在关于学生坚持性和STEM服务提供最佳实践的基准研究的基础上，并基于广泛的机构数据和评估建立方案指导方针和结构。通过成功完成STEM课程、申报STEM专业和坚持毕业来衡量，学习社区的建设确保了STEM考生成绩的提高。更广泛的影响来自评估计划，该计划通过在本项目的背景下测试关键研究的结论，对项目结果进行统计评估，并建立在已知的STEM学生成功的基础上。传播工作利用电子和基于网络的媒体、演示文稿和出版物，以确保STEM教育工作者能够直接获得营销材料、评估准则和工具、原始和分析数据以及评估结果。通过这种方式，该项目有助于STEM教育界了解如何支持和增加学生的数量，特别是那些来自服务不足人群的学生，他们获得STEM学位并进入STEM领域的研究生学位课程和职业。

The Knox College S-STEM COAST program (Creating Opportunities and Access in Science and Technology) increases the number of academically talented students with financial need who complete STEM degrees and matriculate into STEM graduate degree programs and careers. This project targets first-year, full-time students with financial need who have demonstrated motivation and aptitude to pursue STEM degrees, including first-generation students and students from groups underrepresented in STEM fields. This project targets candidates and recruits them into introductory STEM coursework, providing complementary support services designed to mitigate the frustrations that can deter otherwise qualified students from persisting in STEM majors. The project also leverages a natural affinity between all Biology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry students who share common degree requirements. The Intellectual Merit derives from a strong network of support services and resources for students that will be repurposed, tailored, and marketed to target academically talented students with financial need who have strong STEM potential. This S-STEM project builds on benchmark studies about student persistence and best practices in STEM service provision and establishes programmatic guidelines and structures based on extensive institutional data and assessment. The construction of a learning community ensures that COAST Candidate outcomes improve as measured by successful completion of STEM coursework, declared STEM majors, and persistence to graduation.The Broader Impacts derive from the evaluation plan that statistically assesses program outcomes and builds upon what is known about STEM student success by testing the conclusions of key studies within the context of this project. Dissemination efforts utilize electronic and web-based media, presentations and publications to ensure that STEM educators have direct access to marketing materials, assessment rubrics and tools, raw and analyzed data, and evaluation results. In this way, this project contributes to the understanding among the STEM education community of how to support and increase the number of students, particularly those from underserved populations, earning STEM degrees and matriculating into graduate degree programs and careers in STEM fields.