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Marcus Brumfield; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh; Christa Winkler – Discover Education, 2024
Background: In response to the effort to increase minority enrollment in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors, STEM summer bridge programs were created to help minorities with the transition from high school to college with the long-term goal of increasing the diversity of professionals in STEM. The goal of this…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, Outcomes of Education, STEM Education
Nicole Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a growing demand for a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) trained workforce in the United States. In order to remain globally competitive, the US needs to increase the STEM workforce not only in numbers but also diversity. Colleges and universities throughout the US need to not only gain STEM majors but retain them…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Transitional Programs, Summer Programs, Biology
Matthew Austin Gonzales – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Ethical counselors promote social justice (American Counseling Association, 2014). Based on counselors' specialty and site of practice, promoting social justice involves different goals and methods. One way for college counselors to promote social justice is to support students from groups historically excluded from higher education at their…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Social Justice, Summer Programs, Transitional Programs
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P. Abena Anyidoho; Dorinda J. Gallant – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
Benefits of summer bridge and early arrival experiences include the academic and social integration of incoming first-year students into their chosen institutions. The unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic created opportunities to re-imagine delivery of activities and engagement of incoming first-year students in summer bridge and early…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, STEM Education, Minority Group Students
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Beauchamp, Alexandra L.; Roberts, Su-Jen; Aloisio, Jason M.; Wasserman, Deborah; Heimlich, Joe E.; Lewis, J. D.; Munshi-South, Jason; Clark, J. Alan; Tingley, Karen – Journal of Experiential Education, 2022
Background: Authentic research experiences and mentoring have positive impacts on fostering STEM engagement among youth from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM. Programs applying an experiential learning approach often incorporate one or both of these elements, however, there is little research on how these factors impact youth's STEM engagement…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Mentors, Disproportionate Representation, Summer Programs
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Lecocke, Michael; Shaw, Jason; Martines, Ian; Wolff, Necia; Cano, Paulina; Tobares, Vanessa – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2019
The St. Mary's University Jump Start summer bridge program for precalculus was implemented for the first time in August 2014 and completed its third iteration in August 2016. This 12-day summer bridge program occurred immediately before the beginning of the fall semester. The primary intent of this program was to effectively provide prerequisite…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Transitional Programs, Summer Programs, Majors (Students)
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Jessica D. Osborne; Olivia Melvin; T. R. Parlier; E. Gray Flora IV; Yasmin McLaurin – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
This study provides a template for and impact from an Asset, Capacity-Based (Altschuld, 2015) needs assessment focused on undergraduate student success. The purpose of this study is: (1) to provide a template and foundation for institutions to follow in gaining a depth of understanding of student needs and assets, as well as institutional…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Needs Assessment, Program Development, Program Evaluation
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Ghazzawi, Dina; Pattison, Donna Lynn; Horn, Catherine; Wilson, Bobby – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2022
This rich, longitudinally descriptive study provides an examination of program outcomes, student characteristics, and workforce outcomes of the Houston-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (H-LSAMP) program. Utilizing data from the University of Houston's Education Research Center, this study offers a detailed analysis of the long-term…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Student Participation, Academic Achievement, Success
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Howard, Barabra L.; Sharpe, Lonnie, Jr. – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2019
Student retention is a consequential effort of all institutions of higher learning today. The survival of the institution is dependent upon the success of students in obtaining their degrees (Knox, 2005; Noel, 1978). In order to continue to grow a base of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) students and produce quality…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, School Holding Power, Higher Education
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Lane, Tonisha B.; Morgan, Kali; Lopez, Megan M. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2020
Underserved students express a high interest in earning a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degree. However, their ACT benchmark indicators tend to be much lower than their peers, especially for students who report more than one underserved attribute. There are a number of STEM intervention programs (SIPs) that are designed…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Program Effectiveness, Transitional Programs, College Readiness
Ben-Ami, Leah – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The research design was shaped as a result of the chosen methodology, which was interpretive phenomenological analysis. I was back and forth between narrative inquiry and IPA for a long time but wanted to focus on capturing the lived experiences across subjects from similar backgrounds who experienced the same phenomenon, which in this case was a…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, STEM Education, School Holding Power, College Students
Talia Kay Monette Carroll – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Though gains have been made in broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for underserved and historically marginalized groups, challenges remain with recruiting, retaining, and graduating Black women in STEM. This study offers a nuanced response to this underrepresentation and centers on participants'…
Descriptors: STEM Education, African American Students, Females, Womens Education
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2020
The transition from high school to college is challenging under normal circumstances. But this year--with students ending high school remotely and potentially starting college virtually--this transition may seem nearly impossible for too many students. Young people will need to navigate complex systems of registration, enrollment, and financial…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, College Readiness, High School Students, Summer Programs
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Ashley, Michael; Cooper, Katelyn M.; Cala, Jacqueline M.; Brownell, Sara E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Summer bridge programs are designed to help transition students into the college learning environment. Increasingly, bridge programs are being developed in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines because of the rigorous content and lower student persistence in college STEM compared with other disciplines. However, to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Summer Programs, Disproportionate Representation, Curriculum Development
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Johnson, Jennifer Michelle – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to highlight the potential of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) summer bridge programs to promote college persistence by fostering a positive science identity among participants that is culturally consistent with the values and experiences of African American students. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, African American Students, STEM Education
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