Collaborative Research: Practices and Research on Student Pathways in Education from Community College and Transfer Students in STEM (PROSPECT S-STEM)

Collaborative research: Practices and Research on Student Pathways in Education for Community College and Transfer Students to STEM (PROSPECT S-STEM) is a partnership among 26 institutions. The overarching goal of PROSPECT S-STEM is to connect research and practice to better support low-income STEM transfer students through focusing on students’ lived experiences; faculty and staff supports of students; programmatic supports for students; and institutional partnerships to support transfer students. These dimensions are interrelated and we are studying them through 10 current S-STEM projects. Some of our early findings are related to faculty and staff professional learning communities, institutional structures to support transfer students, and the role of hidden work by S-STEM personnel in making co-equitable relationships across institutions work.