Implementation Project: STEM Undergraduate Program to Promote Opportunities in Research and Training (SUPPORT)

历史上的黑人学院和大学的实施项目-本科生方案为设计、实施、研究和评估全面的机构努力提供支持，通过加强科学、技术、工程和数学教育和研究，增加学生人数和提高学生准备质量。在利文斯顿学院，一个小型的私立本科院校，这个实施项目提供了一个战略方法，招收学生进入STEM学位课程，并提供一个支持系统，使他们保留并坚持到STEM专业毕业。利文斯顿学院为大多数第一代低收入家庭的学生提供服务。该项目由一个持续的评估以及内部和外部咨询委员会指导和提供信息。该项目旨在使用基于课程和基于课外的方法来帮助学生在他们选择的STEM专业中做好准备，这些方法可以吸引学生，促进学习，并发展技能。学习机会将包括基于项目的学习和过程技能实验室，教学合理的教学和内容交付，研讨会和讲习班，为学生的科学和专业发展，以及行业职业和研究生院的探索。额外的数学，科学和计算机信息系统课程将开发与主动和探究式学习的重点。STEM夏桥计划将促进学术和社会融合，以促进学生适应大学，并加快看门人课程的学习成绩。新生STEM学习社区将通过聚集核心数学和科学课程形成。这个项目可以作为一个模式，为小型，主要是本科院校与开放招生政策，致力于提供教育机会，学生和他们的家庭。

Implementation Projects in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate program provide support to design, implement, study and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This implementation project at Livingston College, a small, private undergraduate institution, provides a strategic approach to recruit students into STEM degree programs and to provide a support system so that they are retained and persist toward graduation in a STEM major. Livingston College serves a majority of first-generation, low-income students. The project is guided and informed by an on-going evaluation, as well as by internal and external advisory committees.This project seeks prepare students in their selected STEM major using curricula-based and extra-curricular-based methodologies that engage students, enhance learning, and develop skills. Learning opportunities will include project based learning and process skills laboratories, pedagogically sound instruction and content delivery, seminars and workshops for student scientific and professional development, and exploration of industry careers and graduate school. Additional mathematics, science, and computer information systems courses will be developed with emphasis on active and inquiry-based learning. A STEM summer bridge program will foster academic and social integration to facilitate students' adjustment to college and accelerate academic performance in gatekeeper courses. A freshman STEM learning community will be formed by clustering core mathematics and science courses. This project can serve as a model for small, predominantly undergraduate institutions with an open enrollment policy committed to providing educational opportunities to students and their families.