Just under $5 million in funding from the National Science Foundation is now supporting scholarships for transfer students seeking STEM degrees at the UA, and providing training for faculty and peer mentors as students transfer from Pima Community College to the UA. Regina Deil-Amen, professor of Higher Education in the UA College of Education and principal investigator on the grant, says a key benefit of the grant is that it can help diversify STEM talent pathways in Arizona, where there is a "disproportionate underrepresentation of people from the communities in which these STEM disciplines are supposed to be applied."
Regina’s grant partners with the award-winning Arizona Science, Engineering and Math Scholars (ASEMS) program, recognized as an “Example of Excelencia” in fostering Latinx student success in Higher Education.
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