Mentoring Students to Success in STEM Fields

康奈尔大学的“指导学生在STEM领域取得成功”项目将增加学生获得科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域严格教育的机会，这些学生具有在STEM领域取得成功的职业生涯并为STEM领域做出贡献的智力能力，但由于财政限制，他们无法获得这样的教育。该计划将为18名学生提供每年高达10，000美元的奖学金，这些学生在康奈尔大学就读的全部经济需求尚未得到满足。 奖学金获得者将参加特别节目，其中包括生活在科学，技术和数学兴趣生活和学习社区宿舍楼在他们的大一，职业和研究生院的准备和规划在他们的大二和大三，并前往当地和国家的科学会议。教师导师将在康奈尔大学期间与STEM学者合作，帮助学者应对挑战并利用机会。该项目将评估小型文理学院基于社区的生活学习社区在提高STEM领域的保留率，毕业率和职业成功方面的有效性。 具体而言，该项目将调查九种示范做法在留住STEM领域代表性不足的学生方面的有效性，以及这些做法是否也提高了所有低收入学生的保留率。 活动和编程对STEM领域的保留和毕业的影响将在项目期间及其高潮进行评估，为改进该计划提供方向，同时提供该计划的成功的最终画面。此外，STEM教师将探索以研究为基础的教学方法，生物学系将在其入门课程中评估基于课程的本科生研究经验（CURES），增加CURE模型的多样性，并有助于理解CURE课程对学生作为科学家发展的影响。

The "Mentoring Students to Success in STEM Fields" project at Cornell College will increase access to a rigorous education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields for students with the intellectual ability to have successful careers in and make contributions to STEM fields, but who would otherwise not be able to access such an education because of financial constraints. The program will provide scholarships of up to $10,000 per year for 18 students whose full financial need for attendance at Cornell College has not been met. Scholarship recipients will participate in special programming, which includes living on a Science, Technology, and Mathematics Interest Living and Learning Community residence hall floor in their freshman year, career and graduate school preparation and planning during their sophomore and junior years, and travel to local and national scientific meetings. Faculty mentors will work with the STEM Scholars throughout their time at Cornell, to help the Scholars navigate challenges and take advantage of opportunities.This project will assess the effectiveness of curriculum-based living-learning communities at small liberal arts colleges in improving retention, graduation, and career success in STEM fields. Specifically, this project will investigate the efficacy of nine model practices for retaining students from underrepresented populations in STEM fields and whether or not these practices also improve retention for all low income students. The impact of the activities and programming on retention and graduation in STEM fields will be evaluated during the project and at its culmination, providing direction for improving the program while it is in operation as well as providing a final picture of the program's success. In addition, STEM faculty members will explore research-based teaching methods, and the biology department will evaluate Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) in its introductory courses, increasing the diversity of CURE models and contributing to the understanding of the impact of CURE courses on students' development as scientists.