The island chain geography of the seven-campus University of Hawaii Community College System (UHCC) on Kauai, Oahu, Maui and Hawaii (Big Island) makes our LSAMP B2B STAMP program unique in promoting and implementing our curriculum innovations and strategies. Notwithstanding the distance between islands, our program encompasses and advances diversity and inclusion of STEM education of native Hawaiian and under-represented minority (URM) students as they transfer and pursue STEM baccalaureates in LSAMP Islands of Opportunity Alliance (IOA) campuses. Our program aims to achieve this goal by implementing 3 innovative strategies, namely, mathematics acceleration, peer mentoring, and undergraduate research experience (URE) preferably for sophomores transitioning to their STEM baccalaureates. Past our program’s first year of implementation, this presentation will highlight the 3 strategies that were adopted and enhanced, the measurable successes and outcomes our innovative model have demonstrated as well as realistic challenges and initial setbacks we have confronted thus far that we aim to fine tune. Central to the presentation are initial results of our efforts, obtained primarily, from participating community colleges of the UHCC System with well-established Associate in Science in Natural Science (ASNS) degree. Realistically, similar outcomes from the working model should cross over and impact our B2B STAMP program in participating campuses in the neighbor islands.

Statewide University of Hawaii community college collaborative project: NSF LSAMP bridge to the baccalaureate (B2B): Strategic transfer alliance for minority participation (STAMP)

256th National Meeting (2018)

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