Academic Integrity Management (AIM) of a collaborative three year computer science degree program

本项目得到STEP的特别资助，即“毕业生10 K+”，这是美国国家科学基金会的一项活动，部分由英特尔基金会和通用电气基金会的捐款支持，旨在激励大学和学院采取综合行动，帮助增加每年新的学士学位人数。加州州立大学蒙特利湾分校（CSUMB）和哈特内尔学院（Hartnell College）评估了寻求计算机科学教育机会的代表性不足和弱势学生所面临的挑战。鉴于障碍和可用的资源，CSUMB和Hartnell致力于开发一个三年制学士学位的选择，再加上重要的学生支持结构和财政援助，以改善成果。该项目包括以下特点：o两年制和四年制学院之间的合作，学生主要在哈特内尔完成前一年半的课程，最后一年半主要在CSUMB完成; o通过夏桥课程提高学生进入大学的准备程度;o将学生组织成从入学到转学和毕业一直保持的队列;o通过确定学术需求和提供支助服务，提供持续的学术支助; o透过工作坊及实习安排，提供职业发展支援;o提供奖学金支援，使学生无须到外间就业。o与外间评核员合作，执行详细的评核计划，研究计划各部分的表现。 此外，该项目还获得了当地非营利组织松井基金会的承诺，将提供大量资金，支持学生获得全额奖学金。该项目的智力价值在于实施为期三年的计算机科学/信息技术（CSIT）理学士学位课程，以成功吸引，留住，转移，以及来自弱势群体和代表性不足群体的研究生。该项目包括三个关键组成部分：（1）加速三年的时间框架，（2）社区学院和大学之间的合作，以及（3）基于队列的学习模式。该项目的更广泛的影响是通过加速计划，学生奖学金，学生群体和利用计算机科学支持计划的结合，增加了150名代表性不足和处境不利的学生获得计算机科学和成功的机会。该项目的评估数据和最佳做法的传播也为教育领导者提供了大量信息，以复制利用多个机构资源的三年或四年合作途径，以提高计算机科学和STEM学生的保留率和毕业率。

ABSTRACTThis project is being supported under a special funding focus for STEP, "Graduate 10K+," an activity of the National Science Foundation, supported in part by donations from the Intel Foundation and the GE Foundation, to stimulate comprehensive action at universities and colleges to help increase the annual number of new B.S. graduates in engineering and computer science by 10,000 over the next decade.California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and Hartnell College have assessed the challenges facing underrepresented and disadvantaged students seeking educational opportunities in computer science. Given the obstacles and the resources available, CSUMB and Hartnell committed to developing a three-year bachelor's degree option coupled with significant student support structures and financial assistance as a way to improve outcomes. The project is incorporating the following features:o Collaboration between a 2- and 4- year college, in which students are completing the first 1.5 years of the program primarily at Hartnell and the final 1.5 years primarily at CSUMB; o Improving the college-readiness of students through a summer bridge program;o Organizing students into cohorts that are maintained from enrollment through transfer and graduation;o Providing ongoing academic support through identification of academic needs and provision of support services;o Delivering career development support through workshops and internship placements;o Providing scholarship support that eliminates the need for students to seek outside employment.o Executing a detailed evaluation plan with an external evaluator to study the performance of project components. Additionally, the project has secured a commitment from the Matsui Foundation, a local non-profit organization, to provide significant funding that supports full scholarships for students.The intellectual merit of the project lies in its implementation of a three-year Bachelor of Science degree program in computer science/information technology (CSIT) to successfully attract, retain, transfer, and graduate students from disadvantaged and underrepresented populations. The project incorporates three critical components: (1) an accelerated three-year time frame, (2) collaboration between a community college and a university, and (3) a cohort-based learning model. The project's broader impacts are felt in the increased access to computer science and success of 150 underrepresented and disadvantaged students, through the combination of an accelerated program, student scholarships, student cohorts, and leveraging computer science support programs. Dissemination of evaluation data and best practices from this project are also providing substantial information to education leaders to duplicate collaborative three or four year pathways that utilize resources of multiple institutions to increase retention and graduation of students in computer science and STEM.