Higher Education Program Evaluations
California State University, San Bernardino CoyoteCareers Evaluation (2007-2012)
CoyoteCareers (funded by Title V) was designed to ameliorate disparities in academic achievement and career preparation for Hispanic and low-income students studying in the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation fields. Program activities include tutoring in hard-to-pass classes, Academic Career Education workshops, alumni involvement, and service learning internships. To access our latest report for CoyoteCareers, please click here.
California Polytechnic University, Pomona STEM Pipeline Evaluation (2008-2011)
The STEM Pipeline Project at Cal Poly Pomona (funded by the College Cost Reduction and Access Act) was designed to assist underrepresented minority students in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Program activities include developing a formal STEM learning community, enhancing STEM counseling for community college students, creating a seamless transfer process for STEM majors, preparing students for the baccalaureate degree, and expanding tutoring, technology upgrades, and research apprenticeships. To access our latest report for this project, please click here.
City University of New York, Lehman College Supplemental Instruction and Technology Program Evaluation (2006-2011)
The Title V funded Supplemental Instruction and Technology Program strives to raise academic quality, improve student success, and enhance financial and management effectiveness. The program focuses on establishing a Supplemental Instruction program, increasing student performance in gateway courses, providing faculty development in best practices, and raising endowment funds.
California State University Chancellor’s Office, Service Learning Transforming Educational Models in STEM (STEM)2 Evaluation (2010-2013)
Funded by Learn and Serve America, the (STEM)2 program uses strategies to encourage service learning and student success in STEM disciplines throughout the CSU system. These strategies include supporting innovative programs at five CSU campuses, developing additional service learning courses and engaged department institutes, creating materials based on a replication of a successful program model, and building a network of support for partnership development. Please click here (PDF) to read the Year One Evaluation Final Report.
University of California, Los Angeles, Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program at UCLA (2011-2016)
The Bridges to Baccalaureate Program at UCLA (funded by NIH) seeks to increase the number of students from underrepresented minority groups who successfully transfer to UCLA from local community colleges (i.e., Los Angeles Pierce College, Los Angeles Valley College), graduate with their baccalaureate degrees in the sciences, and pursue more advanced degrees in biomedical sciences. The Bridges Program provides community college students with workshops, courses, and tutoring designed to increase students’ academic and research skills, their understanding of the admissions process, and their interest in biomedical research and/or teaching.
San Bernardino Valley College and California State University, San Bernardino PASS GO (2011-2016)
The PASS GO program, a collaboration between CSUSB and SBVC, aims to improve the retention, graduation and career readiness of Hispanic students and other low-income transfer students in the STEM disciplines. Funded by the United States Department of Education, the program intends to accomplish its goals by using a range of strategies that include career education, counseling, student service programs and articulation agreements to improve STEM transfer student success in their careers of choice.
