One Degree, Many Careers: Opening Doors for STEM Majors

该项目为高需求的STEM专业学生提供资金、学术和同行支持，这些专业学生既希望接受专业科学家或数学家的培训，又希望从事教学工作，传统上被研究型大学的文化边缘化。该项目使这些有才华的学生能够回馈社会，有所作为，并成为每个S-STEM学者合适的进入研究生院的垫脚石。一个健全的评估和评估计划包括纵向数据，这些数据将评估研究经验和导师对教师课堂实践的影响，以及随后对激励教师学生追求STEM教育和职业的影响。评估还确定了导师经历对研究生进入高等教育学术岗位的信心和成功的影响。作为科学家或数学家，每个S-STEM学者增加了一个人；作为STEM教师，每个S-STEM学者可以激励许多学生追求STEM事业。这些奖学金减少了未得到满足的经济需求，从而使S-STEM奖学金获得者能够在学年期间专注于课程工作，寻求缩短获得学位的时间的策略，有时间参与有意义的近同行指导活动，并参与各种专业网络机会。该项目为加州大学洛杉矶分校的学生和从两年制学校转到加州大学洛杉矶分校后完成最后几年的学生投入了同等的资源。

This project is providing financial, academic, and peer support of high-need STEM majors who, because they desire both to be trained as a professional scientist or mathematician and seek a career in teaching, are traditionally marginalized by the culture of the research university. The project is enabling these talented students to give back to the community, to make a difference, and to serve as a steppingstone for graduate school as appropriate to each individual S-STEM Scholar. A robust assessment and evaluation plan includes longitudinal data that will assess the impact of research experiences and mentorships on a teacher's classroom practices and its subsequent effect on motivating the teacher's students to purse STEM education and careers. The assessment is also establishing the effect of the mentoring experience on graduate students' confidence and success in entering academic positions in higher education.As a scientist or mathematician, each S-STEM Scholar adds one person to the workforce; as STEM teacher, each S-STEM Scholars can inspire many students to pursue STEM careers. The scholarships are reducing unmet financial need, thereby enabling S-STEM Scholars to concentrate on course-work during the academic year, to pursue strategies to shorten time-to-degree, to have time to engage in meaningful near-peer mentoring activities, and to participate in a variety of professional networking opportunities. The project is devoting equal resources to continuing UCLA students and to students completing their final years after transferring to UCLA from a 2-year school.