Holyoke Community College STEM Scholars Program

马萨诸塞州霍利奥克市霍利奥克社区学院的国家科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金(S-STEM)项目将招收、留住和鼓励有学术天赋、经济困难的学生完成大专学位并继续深造。为了满足地区和国家的STEM劳动力需求，多达20名学者将接触到旨在激励他们成为工程师、化学家、数学家和物理学家的学术环境。这些学者将参加一门STEM 101课程，其中一门课程是基于美国完整学院的“元专业”发展模式，以帮助学生选择合理的学术专业，并缩短完成学位的时间。学生还可以选择参加研讨会活动，其中包括演讲和实地考察，以转移大学和行业合作伙伴，大学成功研讨会，以及多样性培训。此外，继续留学的学者将被鼓励在大学入学活动中充当大使，以及新奖学金的拥护者。研究表明，STEM专业的学生必须接触到一个良好的学习环境。因此，PI团队制定了一套全面的计划，包括学业支持服务、辅导、职业咨询以及帮助社区大学生转学到四年制学校。STEM 101课程将为学生提供积极的第一年STEM学习体验，介绍内容、体验式学习和STEM职业探索。此外，系列研讨会将帮助学生融入学院的生活。形成性评估将被用来解决项目中需要改进的方面，评估学生参与和支持，并通过修改后的社区学院学生参与调查来审查学术挑战。终结性评估将包括分析学生对积极学习社区的态度和看法(调查和访谈)、提高STEM纪律意识的活动以及学术进步。将向《社区大学学报》和《社区大学时报》等期刊传播评价结果，这样做有助于扩大关于在何种情况下这类奖学金获得成功的知识库。

This NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts will recruit, retain, and encourage academically talented, financially needy, students to complete their associate's degrees and continue their education. In order to address regional and national STEM workforce needs, as many as 20 scholars will be exposed to an academic climate meant to inspire them to become engineers, chemists, mathematicians, and physicists. The scholars will participate in a STEM 101 course, which includes a curriculum is based on Complete College America's model for developing "meta majors" to help students choose reasonable academic majors and reduce time to degree completion. Students will also have the option to attend seminar activities, which will include speakers and field trips to transfer universities and industry partners, college success workshops, and diversity training. Moreover, continuing scholars will be encouraged to act as ambassadors in college access activities, as well as champions for new scholars.Research shows that STEM majors must be exposed to a robust learning environment. Thus, the PI team has created a comprehensive plan for academic support services, mentoring, career counseling, and assistance for community college student transfer to four year schools. The STEM 101 course will offer students a positive first year STEM learning experience that introduces content, experiential learning, and STEM career exploration. Additionally, the seminar series will help integrate students into the life of the college. Formative evaluation will be used to address aspects of the project that need improvement, assess student engagement and support, and review academic challenges through a modified version of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement. Summative evaluation will consist of an analysis of student attitudes and perceptions (surveys and interviews) regarding the active learning community, activities to improve STEM discipline awareness, and academic progress. Dissemination of the results of evaluation will be submitted to journals such as the Community College Journal, and the Community College Times, and, in so doing, help to expand the knowledge base regarding the circumstances under which scholarship awards of this type are successful.