Patching the Pipeline: Scholarships for Associate-Degree Transfer Students in the Sciences

南方州立理工大学的这个项目的目标是提供奖学金和学术支持，以弥补STEM管道中的漏洞，特别是转学生的流失。该项目采用了12点行动大纲，重点是招募和留住转校生。该计划的智力价值在于设计、实施和评估旨在提高a.s.到b.s.的成功入学和毕业的方法。阻止学生。该项目建立在先前的研究基础上，确定了导致STEM学生在这种转变中流失的因素。该项目还系统地调查了纠正这一困难过渡的支持机制。评估部分设计得很好，将产生持续的反馈以及可在赠款期后持续的具有成本效益的计划。这个项目产生了几个更广泛的影响。首先，有才华的低收入家庭学生进入STEM专业的人数增加。其次，本项目对从两年制学校顺利过渡到四年制学校的制度努力进行了系统的调查。第三，由于计划良好的评估部分，该项目定位于向相关利益相关者传播信息，以便其他机构的学生更容易有效地进行过渡。

The goal of this project at Southern Polytechnic State University is to provide scholarships and academic support in order to patch a leak in the STEM pipeline, specifically the loss of transfer students. The project operates using a twelve-point outline of actions focused on recruiting and retaining transfer students. The intellectual merit of this plan lies in the design, implementation, and evaluation of methods aimed at increasing the successful matriculation and graduation of A.S.-to-B.S. STEM students. The project builds on previous research identifying factors that lead to the loss of STEM students in such transitions. The project also systematically investigates support mechanisms to remediate this difficult transition. The evaluation component is well designed and will produce ongoing feedback as well as cost-effective programs that can be sustained beyond the grant period. Several broader impacts result from this project. First, the number of talented, low-income students entering STEM professions is increased. Secondly, this project undertakes a systematic investigation of institutional efforts to successfully smooth the difficult transition from two year to four year schools. Third, due to the well planned evaluation component, this project is positioned to disseminate information to relevant stakeholders so that students at other institutions may make this transition more easily and effectively.