Supporting Transfers to Reach Educational Aspirations in Math and Science

弗雷斯诺太平洋大学(FPU)数学和科学教育抱负(STREAMS)项目的支持性转学计划将旨在增加获得科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学士学位的社区大学转学学生的数量，并将建立在该大学与红杉学院(COS)之间现有的合作伙伴关系基础上。STREAMS将识别不同群体的有学术天赋的有经济需要的社区学院学生，并招募这些学生转到大学的数学、生物、化学或环境科学专业学习。该项目将加强一所社区大学和一所四年制院校之间的STEM合作，并通过侧重于这些群体的招生努力，增加STEM毕业生的数量，这些毕业生来自STEM中传统上代表性较低的人群，包括第一代、西班牙裔和低收入学生。通过这样做，它将增加这些群体中年轻成员的STEM榜样的数量，并推动关于有效的STEM奖学金计划和为来自代表性不足群体的转学学生提供学生支持服务的研究和实践。该项目将使该大学能够继续开发、应用、评估和推进提高社区学院转学学生获得STEM学士学位的理论和实践，如明确的转学协议、队列建设活动、指导、过渡到大学的规划、高级STEM辅导、学习小组和毕业保证。该大学将加强学生支持结构，以确保至少85%的学者在转到大学后的两年内获得学士学位。该项目将加强一些现有的学生支持服务，以及通过合作开展的针对STEM学生的标题V拉美裔服务机构助学金计划而启动的服务。这些改进将包括组成队列、为学者提供两年的毕业保证、为学者设计的特别研讨会、强有力的师生指导、高级STEM辅导、STEM保留战略和补充教学。它将使至少80%的S-STEM学者在毕业一年内在STEM领域找到工作或进入研究生课程。STREAMS将通过提供关键的支持服务和活动，为STEM学生为劳动力或研究生项目做好更好的准备，包括一对一的STEM职业咨询、GRE准备、在当地STEM企业的工作跟踪、实习和研究机会、对STEM企业和研究生院的实地考察，以及与STEM行业专家的研讨会。

The Supporting Transfers in Reaching Educational Aspirations in Math and Science (STREAMS) Program at Fresno Pacific University (FPU) will target increasing the number of community college transfer students who obtain science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) baccalaureate degrees and will build on an existing partnership between the university and the College of the Sequoias (COS). STREAMS will identify a diverse population of academically talented community college students with financial need and recruit these students to transfer to math, biology, chemistry, or environmental science program at the university. This project will enhance STEM collaborations between a community college and a four-year institution and increase the number of STEM graduates from populations traditionally underrepresented in STEM including first-generation, Hispanic, and low-income students through recruitment efforts that focus on these groups. In so doing it will increase the number of STEM role models for the younger members of these groups and advance research and practice regarding effective STEM scholarship programs and student support services for transfer students from underrepresented groups. The project will enable the university to continue to develop, apply, evaluate, and advance theories and practices that increase STEM baccalaureate degree attainment among community college transfer students such as articulated transfer agreements, cohort building activities, mentoring, transition-to-university programming, upper-division STEM tutoring, study groups, and graduation guarantees. The university will augment student support structures to ensure that at least 85% of the scholars obtain a baccalaureate degree within two years of transferring to the university. The project will enhance a number of existing student support services as well as services initiated through a collaboration on a Title V Hispanic Serving Institutions grant program targeting STEM students. These enhancements will include the formation of cohorts, two-year Graduation Guarantees for scholars, a special seminar designed for scholars, robust faculty-student mentoring, upper division STEM tutoring, STEM retention strategies, and Supplemental Instruction. It will enable at least 80% of S-STEM scholars to secure employment or enter a graduate program in a STEM field within one year of graduation. STREAMS will better prepare STEM students for the workforce or graduate programs by providing key support services and activities, including one-on-one STEM career counseling, GRE preparation, job shadowing at local STEM businesses, internship and research opportunities, field trips to STEM businesses and graduate schools, and workshops with STEM industry experts.