Creating Opportunities for Student Retention and Degree Attainment in Engineering and Science

该项目将通过支持西山社区学院(一家西班牙裔服务机构)留住并毕业高成就、低收入、有经济需求的学生，来促进国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。在为期5年的时间里，该项目将为至少50名正在攻读生物、化学、工程、地质、数学或物理副学士学位的学生提供200个奖学金。每名学生将获得最多四个学期的奖学金支持。该项目旨在通过为奖学金提供全面的支持服务来补充奖学金，包括指导、补充指导、增强的学术和职业咨询以及丰富的机会，从而增加学生在STEM领域的入学率和持久度。该项目将实施一个全面的数据收集机制，以记录和传播最佳做法。由于WCC拥有大量代表不足的学生，该项目有可能扩大STEM领域的参与，并促进学生支持服务与STEM学位课程中代表不足的学生的留校和毕业之间的关系的知识。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生的STEM学位完成率。这个项目有三个指导目标。第一，增加符合条件的副学士学位学生的招生、留用、学生成就率和毕业(或转到四年制课程)。第二，适应、发展、实施和研究支持学生成功的循证实践。第三，为STEM学习领域中代表性不足的学生提供以证据为基础的课程和联合课程活动的记录和传播。本项目将使用定性和定量的数据分析来研究STEM的形成，以及该计划按种族、种族、性别和残疾状况对学生成功的影响。一名外部评估员将提供形成性和总结性反馈，项目小组将在国家会议上传播结果。该项目由NSF的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学业成功、留住、转移、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。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。

This project will contribute to the national need for well educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at West Hills Community College (WHCC), a Hispanic Serving Institution. Over its 5-year duration, this project will fund 200 scholarships to at least 50 students who are pursuing associate's degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geology, Mathematics or Physics. Each student will receive up to four semesters of scholarship support. The project aims to increase student enrollment and persistence in STEM fields by supplementing scholarships with comprehensive support services, including mentoring, supplemental instruction, enhanced academic and career counseling, and enrichment opportunities. The project will implement a comprehensive data collection mechanism to document and disseminate best practices. Because WHCC has a high population of underrepresented students, this project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields and advance knowledge of the relationship between student support services and retention and graduation of students underrepresented in STEM degree programs.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income high achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Three objectives guide this project. First, to increase the recruitment, retention, student success, and graduation (or transfer to four year programs) of eligible students pursuing associate degrees. Second, to adapt, develop, implement, and study evidence-based practices that support student success. Third, to contribute to the documentation and dissemination of evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities for students underrepresented in STEM fields of study. This project will use qualitative and quantitative data analysis to study STEM identify formation and the impact of the program on student success by ethnicity, race, gender and disability status. An external evaluator will provide formative and summative feedback, and the project team will disseminate results at national conferences. This project is funded by NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.