<br/>The Siena College Tech Valley Scholars NSF S-STEM program provides scholarships for talented STEM majors with financial need, and is designed to support STEM majors by a variety of additional means, including early involvement in undergraduate research, cohort support activities, and continuous mentoring and guidance of students throughout the program. Analysis of student outcomes from the first cohort of TVS-supported students indicates that TVS students have both higher graduation rates and final cumulative GPAs than both matched and random control groups. With the second cohort, we’ve added significant peer mentorship and community engaged learning aspects to the program, pairing student groups with projects that meet the needs of a non-profit community partner. Current efforts are focused on assessing how these changes impact student persistence and academic achievement.

Siena College’s Tech Valley Scholars program: STEM student retention through community engaged learning

255th National Meeting (2018)

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