UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
AnchorSTEM
Engaging with Community for Undergraduate Student Success in Mathematics, Engineering and Science.
DISCOVER
AnchorSTEM is a five-year project that develops, implements, and evaluates a collaborative program to recruit and advance a diverse group of STEM majors by placing their front and center.
COMMUNITIES
Our Practices
This project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields at USD and beyond.
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FLOURISHING
in STEM
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CHANGEMAKING
in STEM
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COMMUNITY
in STEM
AnchorSTEM will develop a one-unit course based on the institutional needs identified by USD’s Student Success Report, lessons learned from our prior S-STEM Projects, and developed with the students’ needs and interests in mind.
The content will be challenging by design, allowing the faculty members teaching the course to help the students start to think about how they will react to the inevitable challenges of college with confidence, self-efficacy, and strength.
A course that prepares students to augment their STEM learning with design thinking tools, techniques, and mindsets to facilitate desired and useful contributions to their communities.
Seeing the connection between changemaking and STEM will help motivate students’ sense of dedication to a STEM career and their self-efficacy.
The project is centered on a democratic, mutually-beneficial, and equitable collaboration between USD and community partners that aims to benefit the students, the community and the university, and to advance understanding of how this community-based approach, including meaningful community engagement, affects the students’ persistence and success in STEM.
Our
Rising Stars
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The successes and challenges of our rising stars as they work toward their STEM degrees and careers
Interested in becoming an AnchorSTEM Scholar? Contact us
This project is funded by the National Science Foundation S-STEM Program (NSF #2030997)