TY - JOUR
T1 - Benefits of summer enrichment workshops for incoming college students in stem disciplines
AU - Goonatilake, Rohitha
AU - Ni, Qingwen
AU - Bachnak, Rafic A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The STEM-REP project is partially supported by a STEM Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation (STEM RRG) project funded by the U.S. Department of Education (Award # P031C080083). More information about this grant is found at http://www.tamiu.edu/~rbachnak/STEMRRG/index3.html. The support received from the entire team of session leaders was enormous. The Office of Information Technology and the Office of Recruitments of the University deserve our appreciation. The student assistants have taken care of the day to day activities of the workshops while assisting the authors. Their patience was acknowledged. Finally, large thanks goes to Ms. Juanita Villarreal, the department secretary who assisted in purchasing and providing items needed for a successful completion of the workshop and arranging quick payments for session leaders of the STEM-REP workshops.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 City University of New York. All rights reserved.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - It has been discovered that incoming college students need enrichment, support, and guidance in order to overcome the academic challenges ahead of them. Summer enrichment workshops certainly attempt to impact positively these students who plan to pursue programs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. This eventually benefits their ability to complete the programs, timely graduation, and as a result, colleges will also be able to maintain higher retention rates to accommodate growing need of skilled STEM workforce to meet the current demand of the country. This paper summarizes the details of one enrichment workshop series conducted past three summers holding three carefully planned workshops at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), Laredo, Texas, thanks to the US Department of Education grant to increase recruitment, retention, and graduation of a number of Hispanic and other minority students pursuing degrees in STEM fields at TAMIU.
AB - It has been discovered that incoming college students need enrichment, support, and guidance in order to overcome the academic challenges ahead of them. Summer enrichment workshops certainly attempt to impact positively these students who plan to pursue programs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. This eventually benefits their ability to complete the programs, timely graduation, and as a result, colleges will also be able to maintain higher retention rates to accommodate growing need of skilled STEM workforce to meet the current demand of the country. This paper summarizes the details of one enrichment workshop series conducted past three summers holding three carefully planned workshops at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), Laredo, Texas, thanks to the US Department of Education grant to increase recruitment, retention, and graduation of a number of Hispanic and other minority students pursuing degrees in STEM fields at TAMIU.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85078928766
SN - 2573-4377
VL - 6
SP - 32
EP - 45
JO - Mathematics Teaching-Research Journal
JF - Mathematics Teaching-Research Journal
IS - 1-2
ER -