An S-STEM Scholarship and Student Success Program for CS, Physics and Math Majors
Hu H.H.; Wittwer J.; Zullo H.
2021
SIGCSE 2021 - Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
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10.1145/3408877.3439682
This poster describes an NSF S-STEM project that provides scholarships and student support S3 for computer science, physics, and math (CSPM) majors at a private comprehensive liberal arts college with an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 1800 students. In five years, the S3 program supported 19 computer science, 6 physics, and 7 math undergraduates. The S3 program featured a highly-interactive, first-year seminar that used mini-projects in CSPM to engage students. Students explored CSPM career opportunities with frequent guest speakers and discussions about internships and summer research opportunities. The program likely contributed to an increased percentage of CS degrees earned by female students, which grew from 17% to 25%. © 2021 Owner/Author.
first-year seminar; s-stem; scholarship
Wang A.-I.A., Tyson G., Whalley D., Engelen R.V., Zhang Z., A Journey toward Obtaining Our First NSF S-STEM (Scholarship) Grant, Proceedings of the 45th Acm Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) (SIGCSE '14)., pp. 427-432, (2014)
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Conference paper
Scopus