Hunter College is a diverse, urban, Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) located in New York City. While many Hispanic students are interested in the STEM fields of biology and chemistry at Hunter, disproportionately few Hispanic students persist and graduate in these majors due to challenges in their first year STEM gateway courses.<br/>First year Chemistry course at Hunter College is a high impact course for STEM majors with a large enrollment of ~850 students each semester. First Semester General Chemistry is a gatekeeper course for first-year college students. Although our institution is not alone in this challenge, we have prioritized implementing interventional strategies to improve equity and reduce gaps first to second year retention in STEM disciplines at Hunter College through the sponsorship of an NSF-HSI award - Project FRESH (First-year Retention & Equity in STEM at Hunter).  This project aims to transform first-year STEM education using high-impact practice such as a Summer Bridge program for incoming freshmen enrolled in General Chemistry.<br/>We hypothesize that this intervention increased their probability of success in our general chemistry sequence, sense of belonging and retention in STEM majors at Hunter.

FRESH summer bridge STEM institute:  A new model for retention of 1<sup>st</sup>-year students enrolled in General Chemistry at an Urban Public HSI

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FRESH summer bridge STEM institute: A new model for retention of 1st-year students enrolled in General Chemistry at an Urban Public HSI

FRESH summer bridge STEM institute: A new model for retention of 1^st-year students enrolled in General Chemistry at an Urban Public HSI