Mets Pilot Program: A Community College/University Collaboration To Recruit Underrepresented Students Into Engineering

Abstract

Maricopa Engineering Transition Scholars (METS), funded by NSF, is a collaborative project between Arizona State University and five Maricopa Community Colleges. The project aims to increase the recruitment and retention from untapped labor pools in community colleges into university engineering programs. This paper describes the formation and early work of a two-year pilot collaboration between Arizona State University and Maricopa Community Colleges to build a seamless system that interests, enrolls, retains, and graduates women and underrepresented minorities in engineering degree programs.

Synergistic Interaction of LSAMP Alliances to Improve the Graduation and Transfer of Community College Students in New Jersey United States

“…These learning communities are primarily within single institutions. Collaborations between 2-years and 4-years programs involve limited learning communities across the two institutions (Hirst et al, 2014;Halpern et al, 2018) or a few community colleges and one university (Anderson-Rowland et al, 2004, 2010, 2013Strawn and Livelybrooks, 2012). However, the GSLSAMP-NNJB2B collaboration is far more extensive, forming a web of interactions that create an expanded learning community across multiple institutions at multiple levels.…”

“…It has been suggested that partnerships between universities and community colleges are crucial for enriching the flow of students, especially for URM students (Boggs, 2011;Halpern et al, 2018). Examples of such partnerships include the Tiger Gateway Program to address student college readiness gaps using a summer bridge model (Wilson and Lowry, 2017), the METS/ METSTEP program to increase URM participation in Engineering (Anderson-Rowland et al, 2004, 2010, 2013, and the Undergraduate Catalytic Outreach and Research Experiences (UCORE) program that provides a 10-weeks-long summer STEM research residency (Strawn and Livelybrooks, 2012). Although some of these programs involve multiple community colleges, each only includes a single university partner and thus have limited learning communities (Hirst et al, 2014;Halpern et al, 2018).…”

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“…These learning communities are primarily within single institutions. Collaborations between 2-years and 4-years programs involve limited learning communities across the two institutions (Hirst et al, 2014;Halpern et al, 2018) or a few community colleges and one university (Anderson-Rowland et al, 2004, 2010, 2013Strawn and Livelybrooks, 2012). However, the GSLSAMP-NNJB2B collaboration is far more extensive, forming a web of interactions that create an expanded learning community across multiple institutions at multiple levels.…”

“…It has been suggested that partnerships between universities and community colleges are crucial for enriching the flow of students, especially for URM students (Boggs, 2011;Halpern et al, 2018). Examples of such partnerships include the Tiger Gateway Program to address student college readiness gaps using a summer bridge model (Wilson and Lowry, 2017), the METS/ METSTEP program to increase URM participation in Engineering (Anderson-Rowland et al, 2004, 2010, 2013, and the Undergraduate Catalytic Outreach and Research Experiences (UCORE) program that provides a 10-weeks-long summer STEM research residency (Strawn and Livelybrooks, 2012). Although some of these programs involve multiple community colleges, each only includes a single university partner and thus have limited learning communities (Hirst et al, 2014;Halpern et al, 2018).…”

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“…It has been suggested that partnerships between universities and community colleges are crucial for enriching the flow of students, especially for URM students (Boggs, 2011;Halpern et al, 2018). Examples of such partnerships include the Tiger Gateway Program to address student college readiness gaps using a summer bridge model (Wilson and Lowry, 2017), the METS/ METSTEP program to increase URM participation in Engineering (Anderson-Rowland et al, 2004, 2010, 2013, and the Undergraduate Catalytic Outreach and Research Experiences (UCORE) program that provides a 10-weeks-long summer STEM research residency (Strawn and Livelybrooks, 2012). Although some of these programs involve multiple community colleges, each only includes a single university partner and thus have limited learning communities (Hirst et al, 2014;Halpern et al, 2018).…”