Advancing Student Futures in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

纽约市立大学纽约理工学院的这个项目将为有经济需要的有学术前途的学生提供奖学金和教育支持，为国家劳动力做出贡献，这些学生将攻读计算机科学和化学技术的副学士学位课程，以及应用数学和生物医学信息学的学士学位课程。由于计算机科学和应用数学专业的保留率和毕业率显示出女性的代表性严重不足，因此该项目将重点放在招收和招收更多的女学生，并提供证据验证的干预措施，以支持她们的保留、毕业和进入劳动力市场。该学院是一所西班牙裔服务机构，在授予黑人学生的副学士学位数量上排名全国第三，在授予男学生的学位数量上排名第23，在授予女学生的学位数量上排名第48。由于该学院是一所为少数族裔服务的机构，提高留校率和毕业率将增加代表性不足的学生在STEM本科和研究生课程以及纽约市劳动力中的参与度，从而对学生个人、学校和更广泛的社区产生不断扩大的社会和经济影响。利用积极的传播议程，该机构将与其他城市大学机构，同行西班牙裔服务机构和其他非研究密集型本科机构分享关键战略和成果。通过精心策划的活动，该项目将(1)招募并增加四个目标科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）专业的参与，重点是女性、来自当地少数民族高中的有前途的代表性不足的学生、未申报的学生和数学准备较强的文科学生；(2)通过大力鼓励学生每学期注册15个以上学分，以促进及时毕业，留住和培养STEM项目中有学术天赋的低收入学生；(3)在关键时刻提供全面的支持结构，包括财政支持、学术指导、学术支持和职业咨询，采用自然队列方法培养STEM专业身份；(4)通过咨询增加从副学士到学士学位课程的学生内部转学和STEM研究生学习或劳动力安置；(5)评估和评估计划，采用持续改进的周期和定义良好的项目成功度量。该项目将建立在对目标项目的留校和毕业数据进行深入分析的基础上，并将实施一套全面的学术和社会干预措施，如同伴领导的团队学习和其他已被证明对低收入学生有效的强化群体的高影响力实践。此外，该学院新的生物医学信息学学士学位课程将培养在使用构象和基因组数据来阐明生物现象的计算机应用能力，以及在医疗保健提供和研究中安全的电子存储、检索和使用生物医学信息的能力，反映了新兴和快速变化领域的最新方法。

This project at CUNY New York College of Technology will contribute to the national workforce by providing scholarships and educational support to academically promising students with financial need in associate degree programs in computer science and chemical technology and baccalaureate degree programs in applied mathematics and biomedical informatics. Because retention and graduation rates in computer science and applied mathematics reveal a profound underrepresentation of women, the project will place a heavy emphasis on recruiting and enrolling greater numbers of female students and in providing evidence-validated interventions to support their retention, graduation, and workforce entry. The college is a Hispanic Serving Institution ranked third in the nation in the number of associate-level STEM degrees awarded to Black students, 23rd in degrees awarded to male students, and 48th in degrees awarded to women. Because the college is a minority-serving institution, improving retention and graduation will increase the participation of underrepresented students in STEM undergraduate and graduate programs and the New York City workforce, having ever-widening social and economic impact on individual students, the institution, and the wider community. Using an active dissemination agenda the institution will share key strategies and outcomes to other CUNY institutions, peer Hispanic Serving Institutions, and other non-research-intensive undergraduate institutions.Through well crafted activities the project will (1) recruit and increase participation in four targeted science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors, focusing on women, promising underrepresented students from local minority-serving high schools, and undeclared and liberal arts students with strong math preparation; (2) retain and graduate academically talented, low income students in STEM programs by strongly encouraging students to register for 15+ credits per semester to promote timely progress to graduation; (3) provide comprehensive support structures at critical junctures that include financial support, academic advisement, academic support, and career counseling, using a natural cohort approach to developing a professional STEM identity; (4) increase internal transfer of students from associate degree to baccalaureate degree programs and STEM graduate study or workforce placement through advisement; and (5) evaluate and assess the program, employing a cycle of continuous improvement and well-defined metrics of project success. The project will build upon intensive analysis of institutional data on retention and graduation in the targeted programs and will implement a comprehensive set of academic and social interventions such as Peer-Led Team Learning and other cohort-strengthening high impact practices that have proven effective with low-income students. In addition, the new baccalaureate program in Biomedical Informatics at the college will develop competencies in computer applications in the use of conformational and genomic data to elucidate biological phenomena and the secure electronic storage, retrieval, and use of biomedical information in healthcare delivery and research, reflecting the latest approaches in a burgeoning and rapidly changing field.