Darbeheshti, M., & Howland Cummings, M., & Schupbach, W. T., & Russomanno, D. J., & Ivey, S. S., & Alfrey, K. D., & Altman, T., & Jacobson, M. S., & Stewart, C. O., & Goodman, K. (2023, June), Board 351: NSF S-STEM Track 3: Scaling Up Student Success through Broadening Participation Beyond our S-STEM Cohort   Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42985

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  Darbeheshti, M., \& Howland Cummings, M., \& Schupbach, W. T., \& Russomanno, D. J., \& Ivey, S. S., \& Alfrey, K. D., \& Altman, T., \& Jacobson, M. S., \& Stewart, C. O., \& Goodman, K. (2023, June), \emph{Board 351: NSF S-STEM Track 3: Scaling Up Student Success through Broadening Participation Beyond our S-STEM Cohort }
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--42985

Maryam Darbeheshti, Miriam Howland Cummings PhD, William Taylor Schupbach, David J. Russomanno, Stephanie S Ivey, Karen D Alfrey, Tom Altman, Michael S. Jacobson, Craig O. Stewart, and Katherine Goodman.  "Board 351: NSF S-STEM Track 3: Scaling Up Student Success through Broadening Participation Beyond our S-STEM Cohort ".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/42985 Internet.  18 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_42985}
  Maryam Darbeheshti, Miriam Howland Cummings PhD, William Taylor Schupbach, David J. Russomanno, Stephanie S Ivey, Karen D Alfrey, Tom Altman, Michael S. Jacobson, Craig O. Stewart, and Katherine Goodman.
  "Board 351: NSF S-STEM Track 3: Scaling Up Student Success through Broadening Participation Beyond our S-STEM Cohort ".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/42985 Internet.  18 Jan, 2025

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AB  - A Track 3 NSF S-STEM project, the Urban STEM Collaboratory awards scholarships to undergraduate engineering students at three urban public research universities.  Each university employed a unique intervention to support student success, and each has demonstrated positive student outcomes.  This poster will share plans to scale up each intervention after termination of the S-STEM grant. 
 Institution #1 integrated its STEM Ambassador program as a component of the Urban STEM Collaboratory, providing priority consideration to students within the cohort for STEM Ambassador positions. The program engages undergraduate students in paid positions supporting STEM teaching and learning with local school districts and community organizations.  Ambassadors develop strong leadership and communication skills and deeper connections to their disciplines all while getting paid and making a positive impact in the community.  The program has been successful in creating connections and a sense of community for the Ambassadors that has led to positive outcomes in both academic and career pursuits.  The leadership team is now exploring opportunities to extend these successes with other populations where a strong sense of community can lead to better retention outcomes, such as community college and other transfer students, and greater success in recruiting students from a local HBCU to graduate STEM programs at Institution #1. 

 

In the Engineering Learning Community (ELC) at Institution #2, first-year engineering students take three classes together: math, English, and first-year design innovations.  The ELC began in Fall 2016 with mostly mechanical engineering students.  In Fall 2019, the first S-STEM scholarships were awarded and the ELC included students from a variety of engineering majors.  In the ELC, students build community and increase their sense of belonging at a primarily commuter campus.  Through the S-STEM project, the ELC has grown to continue into students’ second semester of math and English, as well as to include a peer mentorship program.  The demonstrated success of the ELC has increased buy-in from campus leadership to scale up the project to create additional, expanded learning communities for all first-year engineering students. 
Institution #3 piloted Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) in Calculus 1 recitation sections specifically for students in the Urban STEM cohort.  PLTL pairs small groups of students with a student mentor who has recently taken the class who facilitates hands-on team-based problem-solving. PLTL is well-established in introductory Chemistry classes at Institution #3 and has previously been employed in some sophomore-level engineering courses with high rates of D, F, or Withdrawal (DFW) grades.  The Urban STEM intervention, the first attempt to offer PLTL in Institution #3 math classes, was an overwhelming success: both Urban STEM cohorts showed significantly lower DFW rates in Calculus 1 compared to students not engaged in PLTL, including no failing grades (compared to a 13.5% failure rate for non-PLTL participants).  Building on that success, we have continued to expand PLTL in key sophomore engineering classes and have plans to expand into a sophomore Computer Information Technology class.  We are also laying the groundwork for future opportunities to support PLTL in foundational mathematics courses that support engineering students. 
AU  - Maryam Darbeheshti
AU  - Miriam Howland Cummings PhD
AU  - William Taylor Schupbach
AU  - David J. Russomanno
AU  - Stephanie S Ivey
AU  - Karen D Alfrey
AU  - Tom Altman
AU  - Michael S. Jacobson
AU  - Craig O. Stewart
AU  - Katherine Goodman
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Board 351: NSF S-STEM Track 3: Scaling Up Student Success through Broadening Participation Beyond our S-STEM Cohort 
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/42985
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--42985
ER  -