SSTEM Scholarship - A Scholarship Program to Enhance Education in Computer Science and Engineering Technology

University XYZ is the only public, historically black college and university of state XYZ, seeks to recruit and provide scholarships to academically talented students with financial need majoring in Computer Science and Engineering Technology. The scholarship program will target 20 XYZ state residents from under represented minority (URM) groups. Technology companies are facing a common challenge: finding a diverse, well-trained workforce. Enrollment of minorities and women in computer and engineering disciplines in the United States is well below other ethnic and gender groups when compared to their percentages in the general population. Enrollment trends that have been tracked by organizations like the National Center for Women and Information Technology, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) all report similar stories. There is a steady decline in the number of university students graduating with computer science degrees over of the last ten years. More alarming is that enrollment and graduation rates in Computer Science are much lower for women and URM students. The Computer Science Engineering Technology - STEM (CSET-STEM) Scholars Program seeks to reverse this trend at XYZ STATE by recruiting into the STEM pipeline, academically talented students who will be able to graduate with computer science degrees and degrees in mechanical, civil, and electrical engineering technology. CSET-STEM will target under represented STEM students, including women; provide each of them scholarship awards totaling $27,024 for four years. The CSET-STEM Scholarship will close any financial gap left after applying the LIFE Scholarship and Pell Grant.