Scholarships and Mentoring to Increase the Academic Success of Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

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，哥伦比亚特区大学的这一项目将支持32名表现出色的学生取得成功。在五年的时间里，该项目将资助六名正在攻读生物学、化学或工程学学士学位的学生。该项目将为STEM学生提供支持活动，这些活动已被证明可以提高学术能力强的低收入学生的保留和毕业。这些活动包括STEM领域杰出专业人士的演讲，参观STEM研究生课程，实习和研究经验。对这些活动影响的分析将增加有关如何在STEM领域招募，维持和毕业低收入学生的知识。哥伦比亚哥伦比亚特区的低收入学生相对较多，这使得该大学成为该项目的一个不错的选择。此外，由于STEM领域的学生比例很大，因此该项目可能会扩大STEM的参与。该S-STEM项目旨在增加STEM专业人员的数量。它专注于准备低收入，高素质的STEM学生进入研究生院或劳动力在他们的STEM学科。 该项目将为学生提供活动，以发展STEM的学术和研究技能。 它计划通过为学者提供全面的指导，集中的学习活动和密集的研究经验来促进持久性。该项目的第一个目标是创建和维护一个强大的学术渠道，让学生注册，留在大学并从大学毕业，获得STEM学位。要做到这一点，它将使用一个扩大的招聘战略，将教师，工作人员和咨询委员会在招聘和选拔过程中。其次，该项目将提供丰富的活动，以提高学生的批判性思维，沟通技巧和研究能力。第三，该项目将为学生引入一个全面的指导系统。这种全面的指导将包括专门努力提供专业知识和职业技能，建议和见解，这已被证明可以提高STEM学位课程的成功完成。导师制还将为学生顺利过渡到有竞争力的博士学位课程或与学科相关的工作提供保障。该项目将应用已公布的数据，这些数据显示了集中学习活动的好处，如参加研讨会和讲习班、每周会议、全年研究经验和实习。此外，该项目将提供适应性方案，随着个别学生的需要而变化。 预计该项目将提高参与学生完成STEM学位并进入研究生院或劳动力市场的成功率。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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, this project at the University of the District of Columbia will support the success of 32 high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need. Throughout its five years, this project will fund cohorts of six students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in biology, chemistry, or engineering. This project will provide STEM students with supporting activities that have been shown to increase retention and graduation of academically strong, lower-income students. These activities include presentations by distinguished professionals in STEM fields, visits to STEM graduate programs, internships, and research experiences. Analysis of the impact of these activities will increase knowledge about how to recruit, maintain, and graduate lower-income students in STEM fields. Its relatively large population of lower-income students makes the University of the District of Columbia a good choice for this project. In addition, because of its large percentage of students who are under-represented in STEM fields, this project is likely to broaden participation in STEM.This S-STEM project aims to increase the number of STEM professionals. It concentrates on preparing lower-income, highly qualified STEM students to enter graduate school or the workforce in their STEM disciplines. The project will provide students with activities to develop academic and research skills in STEM. It plans to promote persistence by providing scholars with holistic mentoring, concentrated learning activities, and intensive research experiences. The first objective of the project is to create and maintain a strong academic pipeline of students who enroll, remain in, and graduate from the University with a STEM degree. To do so, it will use an expanded recruitment strategy that incorporates faculty, staff, and an advisory committee in the recruitment and selection process. Secondly, the project will offer enrichment activities to improve students' critical thinking, communication skills, and research capabilities. Thirdly, the project will introduce a holistic mentoring system for the students. This holistic mentoring will include dedicated efforts to provide professional expertise and career skills, advice, and insight, which has been shown to increase the successful completion of STEM degree programs. The mentoring system also will provide a smooth transition to a competitive doctoral degree program or discipline-related job. The project will apply published data that show the benefit of concentrated learning activities such as seminar and workshop attendance, weekly meetings, year-round research experiences, and internships. In addition, this project will offer adaptive programs that change with the individual student's need. It is expected that the project will increase the success of participating students in completing their STEM degree and entering into graduate school or the workforce.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.