Collaborative Research: TRAIN (TRAnsfer to Interdisciplinary Natural sciences): A Community College-University Consortium to Increase Community College Student Transfer and Success

跨学科自然科学(TRAIN)计划支持社区大学的学生从亚利桑那州立大学的新学院毕业。他们从社区学院的奖学金和一套强大的支持结构开始培训学生，这些支持结构一直延续到亚利桑那州立大学。这些学生是从凤凰城、南山和格伦代尔社区学院(所有HSI)招收的，那里大约85%的学生认为在STEM中传统上代表不足的个人。除了奖学金支持之外，学生还受益于与教员导师的接触、专业建议、同行指导、辅导、研究经验和参与基于队列的活动。真实的、以职业为重点的经历为队列的形成奠定了基础；学生们获得了各种机会，如本科生研究、实习、志愿者机会和实地考察。学生们在博客上记录这些真实的经历，将它们与他们的教育和职业发展联系起来。学生和教师导师每周发表的博客评论使队列保持联系，并有助于发展强大的同行教学和支持网络。他表示，培训计划将通过利用程序性分析的增值模式来增加STEM教育中的集体知识，该模式将分析STEM中代表性不足的学生面临的独特挑战，并确定干预和支持结构如何以不同的方式影响不同的学生。将按人口分组对支持结构进行成本/收益分析，并进行分析以确定哪种支持结构的投资回报最高。Train的更广泛影响包括建设、评估和提高对全国最大的公立大学与其最大的社区学院系统之一之间的创新转移管道的理解，该系统以几个HSI为特色。这个项目可能会改变社区大学学生从两年制向四年制过渡期间对自然减员倾向的支持方式。

The TRAnsfer to Interdisciplinary Natural sciences (TRAIN) program supports students from community college through graduation from Arizona State University's New College.  TRAIN students begin with scholarships and a robust set of support structures at the community college, which follow them seamlessly through transfer to ASU.  Students are recruited from Phoenix, South Mountain, and Glendale Community Colleges (all HSIs), where approximately 85% identify as individuals traditionally underrepresented in STEM.   In addition to scholarship support, students benefit from engagement with faculty mentors, specialized advising, peer mentoring, tutoring, research experiences, and participation in cohort-based activities.  Authentic, career-focused experiences underpin the cohort formation; students are offered various opportunities, such as undergraduate research, internships, volunteer opportunities and field trips.  Students blog about these authentic experiences, relating them to their educational and career development.  Weekly blog comments by students and faculty mentors keep the cohort connected and help to develop a robust peer-teaching and support network.                 The TRAIN program will add to the collective knowledge in STEM education by utilizing a value-added model of programmatic analysis which will analyze the unique challenges faced by students underrepresented in STEM, and determine how interventions and support structures impact diverse students differently. A cost/benefit analysis of the support structures by sub-population will be undertaken and an analysis conducted to determine which yield the best returns on investment.  Broader impacts of TRAIN include the construction, evaluation and improved understanding of an innovative transfer pipeline between the nation's largest public university and one of its largest community college systems featuring several HSIs. This project could transform how community college students are supported during the attrition-prone transfer from two-year to four-year institutions.