Saint Vincent College - STEP Program
The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) at St. Vincent College combines recruitment, retention efforts and scholarship incentives with the development of an academic support mechanism to address a number of current issues in undergraduate STEM education. Recruitment focuses on students from local high schools and minority outreach programs. The development of an academic support program is an essential element in the project's efforts to attract and retain these students into the target STEM majors. The project also provides an opportunity to test the application of these strategies in a small liberal arts college and to gauge their success and their potential for replication in other liberal arts schools.