Gartner, J., & Miller, M., & Rynearson, A. M. (2021, July), Lessons Learned in an S-STEM Program: How to Improve Recruitment and Cohort Building  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--37444

\bibitem{asee_peer_37444}
  Gartner, J., \& Miller, M., \& Rynearson, A. M. (2021, July), \emph{Lessons Learned in an S-STEM Program: How to Improve Recruitment and Cohort Building}
  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference.
  10.18260/1-2--37444

Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Michele Miller, and Anastasia Marie Rynearson.  "Lessons Learned in an S-STEM Program: How to Improve Recruitment and Cohort Building".  2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2021.  https://peer.asee.org/37444 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_37444}
  Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Michele Miller, and Anastasia Marie Rynearson.
  "Lessons Learned in an S-STEM Program: How to Improve Recruitment and Cohort Building".
  \emph{2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2021.
  https://peer.asee.org/37444 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

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AB  - A small liberal arts university in the south received an S-STEM grant in 2018 focused on the School of Engineering. Important factors in the program's success are applicant recruitment and cohort building.  Our recruiting efforts targeted at-risk students who entered the University with less math preparation.  In the first year, we met our goals for recruitment in terms of overall applicant numbers but not in terms of the number of at-risk students.  In the second year, we had fewer overall applicants, but the proportion that were at-risk was higher. In the area of cohort building, feedback from the scholarship recipients indicated our programming did not build community or provide opportunities for them to meet students in the other years. In that first year, the project team organized and led professional development and social events. The social events had little structure, and attendance was poor. In the second year, we hired a consultant to provide sessions for students on topics such as value identification, gratitude, and mindfulness. The sessions had positive student feedback.  In addition to providing professional development skills, the interactivity of the sessions helped build a stronger cohort.  This paper reviews the lessons learned from the first two years and reports on the results of the third-year program implementation.
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