Mentoring, Research, Leadership, and Community to Increase Undergraduate Retention and Graduation in STEM

指导、研究、领导力和社区，以提高STEM的毕业率利用国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金(S-STEM)计划的资金，该项目将支持圣约瑟夫大学有经济需求的高成就、低收入学生。在整个五年的资助过程中，该项目将向两组八名学生提供为期四年的奖学金，这些学生正在攻读生物、化学、计算机科学、数学或物理学士学位。该项目将提供一整套学生支持和参与活动，包括长期研究机会、有组织的教师和同行指导、领导技能发展和职业建议。这些活动旨在增加STEM学习领域的招聘、留住和成功毕业。通过学术和社会培养，该项目旨在培养一批能够成为各自学科和社区中的知识分子领袖和榜样的毕业生。该项目将提供以下支持组成部分：积极招聘和扩展到目标学生人口比例较高的高中，强化教师指导、同行指导、本科生研究和实习机会、领导力和社区服务计划、队列建设活动和职业发展。该项目将调查辅导干预措施对学业有天赋的低收入学生保留率和毕业率的有效性差异，并特别关注教师/学生互动的过程。他们将调查哪些因素影响这些互动的有效性。在评估社会互动对身份认同的影响时，这项研究将产生一些见解，对类似机构的低收入学生的类似项目有用。圣约瑟夫大学将根据他们的结果提出建议，并将这些建议传播给其他项目，这些项目寻求增加来自低收入背景的STEM学生的留存率、兴趣和职业发展轨迹。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Mentoring, Research, Leadership, and Community to Increase Graduation in STEMWith funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, this project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Saint Joseph's University. Throughout its five years of funding, this project will provide four-year scholarships to two cohorts of eight students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, or physics. The project will provide a suite of student support and engagement activities, including long-term research opportunities, structured faculty and peer mentoring, leadership skill development, and career advising. These activities are designed to increase recruitment, retention, and successful graduation in STEM fields of study. Through academic and social nurturing, this project aims to produce cohorts of graduates who can become intellectual leaders and role models in their respective disciplines and in the community.The project will provide the following support components: aggressive recruitment and outreach to high schools with a high proportion of the targeted student population, intensive faculty mentoring, peer mentoring, undergraduate research and internship opportunities, leadership and community service programs, cohort building activities, and career development. The project will investigate variation in the effectiveness of mentoring interventions on retention and graduation rates of academically talented, low income students, with particular attention of the processes of faculty/student interaction. They will investigate what factors influence the effectiveness of these interactions. In assessing impacts of social interaction on identity, this research will generate insights that can be useful to similar programs for low-income students at similar institutions. Saint Joseph's University will develop recommendations based on their results and disseminate the recommendations to other programs seeking to increase the retention, interest, and career trajectory of STEM students from low-income backgrounds.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.