R Asempapa, A Morales, S Agili - Journal of Research in STEM …, 2021 - j-stem.net

A Quantitative Analysis of a Customized Peer Mentoring Program with STEM Underrepresented Students.

NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics AND Program Evaluation

Morales

GSID: 82Lzp-TE1R0J

Excerpt

This article highlights a customized mentoring program that successfully supported underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines at a university in the northeastern part of the United States (US). Because of the national and regional needs to augment underrepresented, minority, first-generation, and low-income STEM college students, this study investigated efforts to expand the number and retain such population in higher education STEM programs through a customized mentoring …