2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Board 219: C6-LSAMP - Building Bridges to the Baccalaureate

Presented at NSF Grantees Poster Session

The California Central Coast Community College Collaborative (C6-LSAMP, C6) is a National Science Foundation Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Bridge to the Baccalaureate grant project (NSF/LSAMP/B2B). C6-LSAMP is an innovative, cross-disciplinary, and multi-institutional collaboration developed by STEM leaders from eight California community colleges. The C6-LSAMP alliance leverages existing support structures and best practices across the member institutions to address inequities in STEM outcomes for a population of students comprised of the underserved: Hispanic/Latinx and other underrepresented minorities (URMs) in rural areas. Within the five counties served by the C6-LSAMP colleges, only 13% of Hispanic/Latinx residents 25 years or older hold a bachelor’s degree, compared to 47% of the five counties’ White, non-Hispanic population. At C6-LSAMP colleges, Hispanic/Latinx students transfer at a rate of 34% vs. 50% for White students. The success rates in key STEM gateway courses in C6 colleges are typically 13% less for Hispanic students than for White students, despite several prior and existing HSI projects at the individual institutions.

The C6-LSAMP project leverages the power of an alliance to support URM STEM students via three pillars: (1) Research Opportunities: Fall Research Symposium and university and LSAMP partnerships, (2) Academic Support: Embedded Tutors in gateway STEM courses, and (3) Professional Development/Career Exploration for students and for faculty: workshops, mentoring, and networking. Reinforcing each pillar is a commitment to creating culturally sensitive, relevant and responsive learning environments.

This work-in-progress poster will summarize some of the project activities, results, challenges and lessons learned during the first two years of the C6-LSAMP project.

Authors

Dominic J Dal Bello http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8002-3226 Allan Hancock College [biography]

Dom Dal Bello is Professor of Engineering at Allan Hancock College (AHC), a California community college between UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. At AHC, he is Department Chair of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty Advisor of MESA (the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Program), and Principal/Co-Principal Investigator of several National Science Foundation projects (S-STEM, LSAMP, IUSE). In ASEE, he is chair of the Two-Year College Division, and Vice-Chair/Community Colleges of the Pacific Southwest Section. He received the Outstanding Teaching Award for the ASEE/PSW Section in 2022.
Dr. Jens-Uwe Kuhn Santa Barbara City College [biography]

Dr. Jens-Uwe Kuhn serves as PI for this NSF ATE funded project at Santa Barbara City College. He has extensive experience in collaborating with the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships at the University of California Santa Barbara, which provides the cleanroom facility for this project, and works directly with many local industry partners and regional stakeholders on this project, including on efforts around its sustainability.
Jason Curtis Cuesta College
Christine L Reed Allan Hancock College
Eva Schiorring STEMEVAL [biography]

Eva Schiorring has almost two decades of experience in research and evaluation and special knowledge about STEM education in community colleges and four-year institutions. She presently serves as the external evaluator for four NSF-funded projects. The
Sean Marc Gottlieb Allan Hancock College
Sarah Hulick Cabrillo College
Francisco E Jimenez Cabrillo College
Gabriel Cuarenta-Gallegos Cuesta College
Dr. Leila Jewell Monterey Peninsula College [biography]

Leila Jewell is a professor of Physics at Monterey Peninsula College. She is passionate about active learning and engaging diverse students in STEM.
Mr. Thomas Rebold http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4346-6938 Monterey Peninsula College [biography]

Tom Rebold is the chair of Engineering at Monterey Peninsula College.
Marcella Klein Williams Oxnard College
Justin William Miller Oxnard College
Franco Javier Mancini Santa Barbara City College
Joe Selzler Ventura College [biography]

Joe Selzler is a Professor of Chemistry at Ventura College in Ventura, CA where is has taught for the last 20 years. He earned his MS in Chemistry from the University of California- Irvine where he specialized in environmental chemistry

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