The Role of High Impact Practices for STEM Persistence and Career Success

凯尼恩学院将向低收入、有学术天赋的学生颁发奖学金，支持他们进行高影响力实践（HIPs），以增加他们的坚持和毕业。学者们将在四年的时间里参与其中，让他们在本科职业生涯的早期就接触到HIPs，因为全国大多数离开STEM领域的学生在头两年就这样做了。活动从暑期学习社区开始，并继续进行结构化和非结构化的服务学习项目，师生指导，实习和研究机会。每年有四组12名对STEM学科感兴趣的低收入、成绩优异的学生将获得奖学金。该项目将测试和评估以STEM为重点的HIPs对一年级学生的影响，旨在提高这些STEM学生的坚持性，特别是那些来自传统上STEM学位完成率较低群体的学生。该项目的研究部分还将确定最有可能导致学生从事STEM职业的HIPs。一名外部专家将对方案的影响以及未来的可持续性提供形成性和总结性评价。凯尼恩学院将为该领域贡献最佳实践的发现，并将特别努力分享其对HIPs和其他文科项目的测试所产生的研究成果，这些项目几乎没有stem相关的数据。

Kenyon College will award scholarships to low income, academically talented students, supporting them with high-impact practices (HIPs) to increase their persistence and graduation. Scholars will be engaged over four years, exposing them to HIPs early in their undergraduate careers, since the majority of students nationwide who leave STEM fields do so during their first two years. Activities begin with a summer learning community, and continue with structured and unstructured service learning projects, faculty-student mentoring, and internships and research opportunities.Four annual cohorts of 12 low-income, high-achieving students with interests across the STEM disciplines will receive scholarships. The project will test and evaluate the impact of STEM-focused HIPs beneficial to first-year students, aiming to increase persistence of these STEM students, especially those from groups with traditionally lower STEM degree completion rates. The research component of the project will also identify HIPs most likely to result in students pursuing STEM careers. An external expert will provide formative and summative evaluation of program impact, as well as future sustainability. Kenyon will contribute findings of best practices to the field, and will make special effort to share research emerging from its testing of HIPs and other programs in the liberal arts, for which there is little STEM-specific data.