Paper ID #42369Weekly Professional Development Lunches to Build Community Among anS-STEM CohortCaroline Cresap, Louisiana Tech University Caroline Cresap is a second-year chemical engineering major from Zachary, Louisiana. She is a Louisiana Tech University College of Engineering and Science S-STEM SUCCESS Scholar with Ashtyne Monceaux. Along with her ASEE research, she is also an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Yang Xiao’s Reaction Engineering and Catalysis Science Laboratory. Caroline enjoys staying involved in her university and is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the Honors Student
Significance of Scholarship Programs in STEMIntroductionIn this Work-in-Progress paper, we share our ongoing work with an NSF Scholarships in STEM(S-STEM) program related to an iteration of analysis that looked across specific aspects in amore summative manner than our typical analyses during the five years of the project that aremore formative. As the project will soon enter an extension into a sixth year to use existingscholarship funds, we took this opportunity to begin to reflect on overarching goals toward thedevelopment and submission of a new S-STEM proposal to continue this work. The StudentPathways in Engineering and Computing for Transfers (SPECTRA) program in the ClemsonUniversity College of Computing, Engineering
maintaining transfer momentum - full-time student status was oneof the strongest predictors of transfer in an analysis of 2003-2009 data from community collegesacross the U.S., doubling the probability that a student will transfer to a 4-year program (LaSotaand Zumeta, 2016). While maintaining academic momentum is a factor in improving graduationrates, scholarships also allow for greater opportunity to engage in campus activities outside ofclass, increasing students’ engagement with their institution (Marra et al., 2015). Several studiesat the Community College of Baltimore County showed that targeted scholarship programs (likeNSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM))can increase the number of