SUCCEEDS
The College of Engineering has an exciting new scholarship program,
SUCCEEDS (A System for Utilizing Capital and Care to Enhance Engineering Degree Success)
The NSF funds SUCCEEDS through the grant:
Removing the Disparity in Success-Related Outcomes Between Academically Talented Low-Income Engineering Students and Other
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The College of Engineering has an exciting scholarship program, SUCCEEDS (A System for Utilizing Capital and Care to Enhance Engineering Degree Success) The NSF funds SUCCEEDS through the grant: Removing the Disparity in Success-Related Outcomes Between Academically Talented Low-Income Engineering Students and Other Engineering Students
Goal
SUCCEEDS aims to develop persistence, increase graduation rate, and develop pathways to post-graduation success in low-income engineering students by:
- Providing and facilitating access to extra- and co-curricular experiences that enhance the students’ engineering learning experience
- Engaging faculty and industry mentors that positively shape the student experience
- Developing students’ skills to ensure STEM workforce or graduate school placement post-graduation.
There’s nothing more important to the College of Engineering than student success, and engineering and computer science education is an economic escalator for students coming from challenging economic backgrounds, our programs, including this new one sponsored by the National Science Foundation, provide a clear path to the upper middle-class and beyond for our students.
| Professor of computer science and dean
Scholars and their Cohorts
The $975,000 National Science Foundation grant will support a total of 30 incoming freshmen engineering students who start in either fall 2018 or fall 2019 (18 scholars admitted for fall 2018 and 12 scholars admitted for fall 2019) for average of 4 years. Students from low-income households will be encouraged to apply for the scholarship program based on their high school grades and ACT or SAT scores.
In addition to providing scholarships toward tuition estimated to average $5,000 per student, scholars selected for the program will participate in activities in the summer before their first fall semester at UIC. In the summer bridge program, scholars will be matched with a student and a faculty mentor who will provide academic guidance, as well as an industry mentor who will provide career guidance. Scholars will also participate in paid summer internships either at a UIC engineering lab, or in one of more than 100 Chicago area companies.
Lots of research shows that college success is dependent, in large part, on family income. Students who are the first in their families to go to college don’t have parents that can talk to them about what it’s like going to college to prepare them for the experience, and those parents are also often at a loss when it comes to providing guidance on finding a job in their child’s chosen field.
| MIE Associate Professor