Success leads to more success.
And that is what eight rural community colleges hope to achieve by utilizing the STEM Pathways Model developed with ATE support by Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) and tested at Cochise College.
From 2012 through 2014, Cochise College's promising results from the STEM Pathways Model included
- new, industry-funded internships for Cochise students;
- ATE-funded internships that led students to full-time employment;
- increased industry participation in the college's STEM outreach programs; and
- more secondary school students participating in Cochise's Early College Academy and continuing in postsecondary STEM education programs.
With a new ATE project grant, SFAz and Cochise are leading the Rural Community College STEM Network that is helping rural two-year colleges throughout Arizona implement the STEM Pathways Model.