Retaining and Inspiring students in Science and Engineering (RISE)

在国家科学基金会科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）计划的资助下，大峡谷州立大学（GVSU）的科学和工程学（RISE）项目将为至少50名低收入学生提供一套逐步增加的四年奖学金，学术上有才华的学生谁确定了追求科学或工程专业的兴趣。RISE将使奖学金获得者与教师导师一起沉浸在一个队列中，以提供强大的支持网络和体验式学习机会，包括夏季研究和实习，这些机会已被证明可以通过学科社会化提高保留率和毕业率。由于研究经验的参与已被证明可以增加攻读研究生学位的兴趣，特别是对于代表性不足和低收入的学生，RISE可以帮助解决科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）课程缺乏多样性的问题。通过深入评估，RISE计划将调查该计划的结构，以帮助支持学生保留和毕业以及学者的职业道路;学生对RISE计划（队列，课外经验，课外活动和研究/实习经验）的各种元素的价值的看法;以及这群学术才华，低收入学生毕业的障碍。此外，该项目将研究（1）体验式学习的影响。(2)重复体验（合作）与单一体验的影响（暑期实习），（3）体验式学习经验在学生进入STEM学科和职业以及从大学转移到工作场所的社会化中的作用，以及（4）社区学院学生容易转入大学的STEM课程。该项目建立在之前成功的S-STEM课程的基础上，并结合了额外的证据-基于课程和课外的学生支持，包括与教师导师的早期接触，扩大STEM学科的研究型体验式学习机会，并将成功的GVSU付费行业合作社/实习体验式学习模式扩展到所有科学。所需的共同课程研讨会和课外活动将帮助RISE学者调查科学和工程职业机会的广度，并为他们的研究，合作或实习经验做好准备，这将有助于他们对自己的职业道路做出明智的决定。一个新的研究课程介绍，类似于目前工程课程的一部分合作准备课程，将作为该计划的一部分开发，并将在计划结束后继续教授。项目团队将与地区社区学院（CC）合作，为从大急流城社区学院（GRCC）、西北密歇根学院（NMC）和渥太华中间学区（OAISD）转学的学生提供总计25项奖学金/马斯克贡社区学院（MCC）早期大学课程。被选为潜在RISE学者的CC学生将参加1学分的预科课程，并在夏季转入GVSU之前参加体验式学习机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the Retaining and Inspiring Students in Science and Engineering (RISE) program at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) will create a set of progressively increasing four-year scholarships for at least 50 low-income, academically talented students who have identified an interest in pursuing a science or engineering major. RISE will immerse scholarship recipients in a cohort with faculty mentors to provide a robust support network and experiential learning opportunities, including summer research and internships, which have been shown to improve retention and graduation rates through disciplinary socialization. As participation in research experiences has been shown to increase interest in pursuing graduate degrees, particularly for underrepresented and low-income students, RISE can help address the lack of diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs. Through an in-depth evaluation, the RISE program will investigate structures of the program that help support student retention and graduation as well as career paths for scholars; student perceptions of the value of various elements of the RISE program (cohort, extracurricular experiences, co-curricular activities, and research/internship experiences); and the barriers to graduation for this group of academically talented, low-income students. Additionally, the project will study the (1) impact of experiential learning. (2) impact of repeated experiences (co-op) vs. single experience (summer internship), (3) role of experiential learning experience in socialization of students into STEM disciplines and careers and transfer from college to the workplace, and (4) ease of transfer of community college students into STEM programs at the university.The project builds on a prior successful S-STEM program by incorporating additional evidence-based curricular and extracurricular student supports including early engagement with faculty mentors, expanding research-based experiential learning opportunities in STEM disciplines, and extending the successful GVSU paid industry co-op/internship experiential learning model in engineering and computing to all sciences. Required co-curricular seminars and extracurricular activities will assist RISE scholars in investigating the breadth of career opportunities in science and engineering and prepare them for research, co-op, or internship experiences, which will help them make informed decisions about their career paths. A new Introduction to Research course, analogous to the Co-op Preparation course currently part of the engineering curriculum, will be developed as part of this program and will continue to be taught after the program ends. The project team will collaborate with area community colleges (CC) with 25 total scholarships designated for students transferring from Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC), Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) and Ottawa Intermediate School District (OAISD)/Muskegon Community College (MCC) early college program. CC students selected as potential RISE Scholars will dual enroll in a 1-credit prep course and engage in experiential learning opportunities during the summer before they transfer to GVSU. Faculty at the community colleges will participate as mentors.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.