STEM Student Success with Coaching for Full-time and Part-time Community College Students

该项目将有助于国家需要受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员，通过支持高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，证明在杜佩奇学院（COD）的经济需要。COD位于芝加哥以西，是伊利诺伊州第二大中学后教育机构，为23，000多名学生提供服务，其中近40%的半全日制学生获得佩尔赠款。在其为期六年的时间里，这个S-STEM轨道2项目将资助奖学金，以至少120名兼职或全职S-STEM合格的学生攻读化学，计算机信息科学，工程，数学或物理学的副学士学位（或打算转移到未来的学士学位）。COD S-STEM学生成功计划为S-STEM学生提供有效的循证活动，研究经验和奖学金支持。一个专门的S-STEM成功教练将提供个性化，队列和跨学科的程序指导，学术规划，并为学生增强教育机会侵入性建议。这包括大学访问，校友小组，STEM讲座，专业发展研讨会和全面的学生支持活动，以鼓励坚持STEM专业。S-STEM学生还被邀请通过与四年制机构和当地国家实验室的现有合作伙伴关系参加带薪暑期实习。该项目的总体目标是提高具有学术才华的本科生的STEM学位完成率，并证明有经济需求。COD S-STEM项目将通过扩大对全日制和兼职STEM学生的宣传和支持来实现这一目标，该项目将通过一名专门的成功教练持续提供基于证据的侵入式咨询方法，并结合奖学金来减少财务障碍。虽然S-STEM项目的数据显示，支持策略对全日制STEM学生非常有效，但大多数社区学院的学生往往是兼职的学生。该项目将纳入基于证据的基础设施的六大支柱：（1）通过学生成功辅导提供侵入式咨询和学生跟踪;（2）与地区四年制大学协调学术途径;（3）STEM教师指导和队列建设;（4）STEM参与活动和研究经验;（5）减少财务障碍;（6）加强学生参与;（7）加强学生参与。以及，（6）早期识别大学和职业准备的差距。在可能的情况下，将通过各种方式（亲自，在线）提供策略，并根据时间，地点或其他因素进行调整，以满足兼职学生的需求。该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生有关低收入学生的学术成功，保留，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，并已被认为值得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来支持。

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 the College of DuPage (COD). Located just west of Chicago, COD is the second largest postsecondary education institution in Illinois, serving over 23,000 students, with almost 40% of half-time to full-time students receiving Pell Grants. Over its six-year duration, this S-STEM Track 2 project will fund scholarships to a minimum of 120 part-time or full-time S-STEM eligible students pursuing an Associate’s degree (or intent to transfer for a future Bachelor degrees) in Chemistry, Computer-Information Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics. The COD S-STEM Student Success program offers effective evidence-based activities, research experiences, and scholarship support for S-STEM students. A dedicated S-STEM Success Coach will provide intrusive advising in individualized, cohort, and cross-disciplinary program guidance, academic planning, and enhanced educational opportunities for the students. This includes university visits, alumni panels, STEM lectures, professional development workshops, and holistic student support activities to encourage persistence in STEM majors. S-STEM students are also invited to participate in paid summer internships through existing partnerships with four-year institutions and local national laboratories. The overall goal of the project is to increase STEM degree completion of academically talented undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The COD S-STEM project will achieve this goal by broadening the outreach to and support of full-time and part-time STEM students through continued evidence-based methods of intrusive advising by a dedicated Success Coach, combined with scholarships to reduce financial barriers. While S-STEM program data shows support strategies to be highly effective for full-time STEM students, the majority of community college populations tend to be students who attend on a part-time basis. This project will incorporate six pillars of evidence-based infrastructure: (1) Intrusive advising and student tracking through student success coaching; (2) Coordinated academic pathways in alignment with area four-year universities; (3) STEM faculty mentoring and cohort building; (4) STEM engagement activities and research experiences; (5) Reduction of financial barriers; and, (6) Early identification of gaps in college and career readiness. Whenever possible, strategies will be offered through a variety of modalities (in person, online) and varied as to time, location, or other factors to accommodate part-time students’ needs. 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.