NSF Grants

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NSF Grants

• Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP)
• VS.
• Math And Science Transfer Excellence and
• Retention (MASTER)

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AMP 1993-2004The 1st 11 yearsJoint NSF grant
with CSUN

• Paid summer internships
• Faculty mentoring
• Support of our SI program
• Guaranteed transfer to CSUN in their
• major
• Special events and additional scholarships

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DetailsAMP 1993-2004Joint NSF grant with CSUN

• Provided some 50k-60k funds per year to support
  stipends for grades in transfer-level
  math/engineering and science classes
• 300 for an A
• 200 for a B
• 100 for a C
• Supported our SI program with some 20,000 per
  year

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DetailsAMP 1993-2004Joint NSF grant with CSUN

• Provided a one month summer bridge program
  concentrating on advanced math skills, study
  skills, and learning communities. There were
  field trips, and each student received a
  state-of-the-art TI Calculator. Students also
  received 600 for the summer bridge.

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AMP Criteria

• Latino, African American, American Indian
  ancestry
• Majoring in Math, Engineering, or Science
• Minimum 2.0 gpa
• Pre-Calculus ready
• Intending to transfer to a 4-year college or
  university

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The AMP Math ClubStarted by some of the 70 AMP
Students
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AMP 2004-PresentWhy we applied for the MASTER
grant

• The CSUN partnership changed dramatically
• No stipends
• No calculators
• No support
• Grants were obtained from Title V, PPG
  Industries,
• ASGCC, and Texas Instruments to augment AMP,
• with the same summer bridge and support services

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Success of the AMPGrant 1995-2005
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2006 to 2011MASTER

• NSF Grant

Partial support for this work was provided by the
National Science Foundation Scholarships in
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
(S-STEM) program under Award No. 0630989
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MASTER

• Math
• And
• Science
• Transfer
• Excellence
• Retention
• Scholarship Program

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To Quote William Shakespeare

• Men at sometime are masters of
• their fates. The fault is not in our
• stars, but in ourselves.

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MASTER

• 500,000 starting 2007-2008 for 4 years
• 2006-07 is a planning year for support staff,
  statistical analysis (formative and summative),
  applications, brochures, and outreach/advertising.
  NSF has provided 4000 for this.
• Much the same as AMP, except it is
• 1. Financial need based (FAFSA or Free
• Application for Federal Student Aid )
• 2, NOT ethnicity based

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MASTER Students supporting 70 per year

• Must be an SEM major
• Must be at least Intermediate Algebra ready
• Must have and maintain a 2.5 gpa
• Approximately 1500 maximum per year after all
  other financial aid sources are exhausted. The
  money can be put to any use.
• Will pay for transfer applications
• Strong support (3825 per year) for 17 MASTER SIs

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MASTER Scholarship Program
Goals1. Increase the success of SEM
students through financial and support
services that promote attainment of AA
degrees.2. Assist student transfer to 4 year
institutions .3. Increase the participation of
low-income, academically talented students
in SEM careers, especially students of
underrepresented groups.
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MASTER Objectives

• Provide scholarships for 70 academically
  talented, financially disadvantaged SEM majors,
  particularly those from underrepresented groups
• To provide support that will enable a minimum of
  70 of those students to maintain a minimum 2.5
  gpa and persist to an associate degree/transfer
• To provide transfer assistance to 100 of the
  scholarship students who complete transfer
  requirements and desire enrollment in a 4-year
  institution

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MASTER

• Will include
• Faculty Mentoring
• Summer bridge of 5 weeks
• TI calculator
• Learning communities
• Special counselor
• Interfacing with our SI program and Science
  Academy
• Priority registration
• Financial need based scholarship funds
• There will be ongoing statistical monitoring

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Management Plan

• Advertisement and recruitment
• Maintenance of student records
• NSF reporting responsibilities
• Selection of students and replacing students who
  no longer qualify
• Dissemination of scholarship funds
• Mentoring assignments
• SI coordination
• Transfer information and application assistance
• Special counseling and educational plans
• Evaluation of program outcomes (formative/summativ
  e)

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Some Mentors

• Kathy Flynn
• Kim Foong Chung
• John Gerz
• Jean Lecuyer
• Ron Harlan
• Rob Mauk
• Peter Stathis
• Gary Massion
• John Leland
• It is expected that we will have over 40
• Mentors from SEM disciplines.

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Thank You To The Initial Grant Advisory Team

• Patricia Hurley, Peter Stathis,
• Jeanette Stirdivant, Edward Karpp,
• Jean Lecuyer, Sarkis Ghazarian,
• Steven White, Gary Massion, Kim Bryant
• Jean Lecuyer Co-PI

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And the brains behind it all
Elana Edelstein
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About AMP on GCCs Web Sitehttp//www.glendale.
edu/amp/

• We will be designing a new web site
• for the Glendale College MASTER
• Scholarship Program