Hornet Science Scholars Program

从社区学院转到四年制大学攻读学士学位的学生在第一年往往面临困难。这种困难可能是学术上的(适应课堂上不同的期望)，也可能是社会上的(寻找朋友和学习伙伴，获取资源，以及在更大的校园环境中感受到归属感)。学业和社交挑战的结合被称为“迁移冲击”，当学生面临其他成功障碍时，这一点更加明显。这包括家庭中第一个上大学的学生，或者来自低收入家庭的学生。马蜂窝科学学者计划将通过提供奖学金以及克服第一年转学冲击所需的学术和社会支持，为高成就、低收入的新转学学生提供轻松的过渡。奖学金获得者将参加四个创新的试点项目，旨在促进转学学生的成功。第一项是“转学准备倡议”，以改善当地社区学院和萨克拉门托州立大学之间的咨询和沟通做法，从而加强所有学生的转学准备，并帮助即将入学的学生了解在这所四年制大学会发生什么。第二个试点涉及在专业课程中对即将到来的黄蜂科学学者进行分组安排，这样他们就可以与他们认识的学生聚集在一起，这些学生也在适应新的环境。这种做法将允许准备充分的学者“快速通道”通过他们剩余的专业要求，加快了毕业的时间。第三项创新实施了行之有效的学术支持策略(如同行指导、同行主导的团队学习和专注于学习技能的练习)，以确保在较高级别的课程中立即取得成功，并使毕业过程取得积极进展。这种由同伴促成的项目鼓励新转学学生和继续学习的学生之间建立积极的关系。最后，第四个试点是与教师导师接触，为学者立即进入与科学相关的暑期工作和研究机会做好准备。这将包括与加州实习网络的伙伴关系，该网络的基础是萨克拉门托州立大学校园。马蜂窝科学学者项目将探索六个研究问题，这些问题将调查一套综合的循证战略，以及创造性的课程结构和与科学相关的暑期活动的联系，将如何改变低收入、高成就的科学转移学生的成功。这个项目将促进对学术和支持干预措施的了解，这些干预措施可能会缓解“转移休克”，并将提供对提高理科学生的留校率和毕业率至关重要的支持类型的更准确的理解。形成性和总结性评估将向领导团队提供有关中期纠正的信息。萨克拉门托州立大学与组成加州州立大学系统的23个校区中的大多数共享学生人口统计数据，并拥有随时准备与之分享成果和成功的受众。

Students who transfer from a community college to a four-year university in pursuit of a Bachelor's degree often face difficulty in the first year. This difficulty may be academic (adjusting to different expectations in the classroom) as well as social (finding friends and study partners, accessing resources, and feeling a sense of belonging within a larger campus environment). The combination of academic and social challenges is known as "transfer shock," and this is even more apparent when students face other barriers to success. This includes students who are the first in their family to attend college, or come from a low-income background. The Hornet Science Scholars program will ease the transition of high-achieving, low-income new transfer students by providing scholarships as well as the academic and social support needed to overcome transfer shock in the first year. Scholarship recipients will participate in four innovative pilot programs designed to promote the success of transfer students. The first is a "Transfer Ready Initiative" to improve advising and communication practices between local community colleges and Sacramento State, resulting in enhanced transfer preparation for all students, and assisting incoming students in knowing what to expect at the four-year university. The second pilot involves group scheduling of incoming Hornet Science Scholars within majors courses, so that they are clustered with students they know, who are also adjusting to the new environment. This practice will allow well-prepared Scholars to "fast track" through their remaining major requirements, speeding time to graduation. The third innovation puts into place proven academic support strategies (such as peer mentoring, peer-led team learning, and focused practice with study skills) to ensure immediate success in upper level courses and allow positive progression towards graduation. Such peer-facilitated programs encourage positive relationships between new transfers and continuing students. Finally, the fourth pilot features engagement with faculty mentors to prepare Scholars for immediate entry into science-related summer employment and research opportunities. This will include partnerships with the California Internship Network, which is based on the Sacramento State campus. The Hornet Science Scholars project will explore six research questions that will investigate how an integrated set of evidence-based strategies, along with creative curricular structures and connection to science-related summer engagement, will transform the success of low-income, high-achieving science transfer students. This project will advance knowledge of academic and support interventions that might ease "transfer shock," and will provide a more accurate understanding about the types of support essential to increasing retention and graduation rates of science students. Formative and summative evaluation will provide information on mid-course corrections to the leadership team. Sacramento State shares student demographics with the majority of the 23 campuses that make up the California State University system, and has a ready audience with whom to share outcomes and successes.