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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Diana de la Rosa-Pohl; Catherine Horn

1 Session XXXX Endeavour S-STEM: Supporting High-Achieving Underserved Students in STEM Diana de la Rosa Pohl Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Houston Catherine Horn Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies University of HoustonAbstractStudents from underserved populations face many obstacles in their endeavor to obtain a bachelor’sdegree in STEM. The challenges are not

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Elsa Castillo; Joel Robinson; Kristine Denman; Anyssa Choy; Tariq Khraishi

/computer science students was conducted at the University of New Mexico. The scholarshipprogram involved elements such as faculty mentoring, career development activities and financial support foreach student scholar. In this paper, the program details are furnished and data on the positive impacts of suchactivities on student academic success is presented. IntroductionThe S-STEM (Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project (NSFAward ID 1458854) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) officially started awarding scholarships in the fall2015. Funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation, the S-STEM project at UNM focuses onretaining and graduating

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Martha Mitchell; Paola Bandini

graduation of the students.. IntroductionBeginning in 2016 at New Mexico State University (NMSU), a one-on-one mentoring program wasintroduced as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded S-STEM grant designed tosupport academically talented engineering students who demonstrated financial need for up to eightsemesters. The full program included individualized self-assessment and monitoring academicsuccess workshops, metacognition and self-efficacy training, and self-study skills in addition to thefaculty mentoring.The goal of the faculty mentoring program was to be one component of creating a supportiveclimate for the cohort students. Specifically, the faculty mentoring was to allow each student