Communications of the ACM
STEM Pathways
Credit: Crafton Hills College
Many universities are reaching out to community colleges to set up programs that encourage science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.
For example, the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) announced that it will spend three years building and piloting a national model for increasing the number of community college students who earn bachelor's degrees in STEM fields. UMBC is working with various institutions to develop a pathway from a community college to a bachelor's degree in a STEM field.
Meanwhile, the City Colleges of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) recently announced a partnership, along with a $100,000 grant for the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities' Minority Male STEM Initiative, to support male minority STEM students at the community college system in transferring to and graduating from UIC.
Mount Holyoke College recently received a $600,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to recruit and support female community college students in STEM fields. "There is clearly a need to demonstrate to community college students, especially women, that studying science disciplines is a viable academic or career path," says Mount Holyoke professor Becky Wai-Ling Packard.
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