Eastern Oregon University (EOU) is a public four-year university whose service area, mostly economically and technologically disadvantaged, is about 42,000 square miles, or 43 percent of the Oregon land base.Many of its students are first-generation and have to overcome major barriers to attend college.The S-STEM funded Advancing Science and Technology in Eastern Oregon (ASTEO) program, now in its fourth year, provides scholarships to incoming low-income, high-achieving freshmen and transfer students wishing to pursue a STEM degree.This presentation will describe challenges encountered in the implementation of the project goals as well as successful program elements and statistics on students’ persistence and academic success.<br/>

NSF S-STEM at Eastern Oregon University: Effective interventions to improve student success

ACS Fall 2020 Virtual Meeting

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