William Schupbach’s research while affiliated with University of Denver and other places

... Peer mentoring also benefits the mentors. It has been found that undergraduate mentors developed experiences and confidence that helped to ensure long-term engagement with STEM as professionals (National Academies of Sciences, 2019; Simon, et al., 2021). Peer mentoring will be provided to first-year CAM scholars by sophomore to senior-level engineering students to support new students' transition to the university environment and the CAM program. ...

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Enhancing STEM Degree Completion: A Framework for the Civil and Mechanical Engineering (CAM) Scholarship Project

... Students in the ELC courses had multiple forms of support not available to students in non-ELC sections of composition [15]. Every year starting in 2019, several of the students participated in a one-week Summer Bridge program in the summer before their first semester, which smoothed their transition to college and helped establish a sense of community [16]. ...

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"I’m not a big English person but I liked this class”: Lessons from a collaboration between the School of Engineering and the English Department

... To foster interaction among scholars across campuses and create a sense of belonging within the Urban STEM community, the program adopted CourseNetworking (CN), an academic social networking platform developed at IUPUI. Using social media to engage college students is not a novel approach and its positive impacts have been well-documented by numerous scholars [8][9][10][11][12]. The reason we chose to implement CN was its unique combination of social networking features, a gamification engine (Anar Seeds) that tracks and incentivizes participation, a digital badging system, and a robust ePortfolio tool. ...

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Board 420: Urban STEM Collaboratory: 5 Years of Lessons Learned

... In this work, the leadership from three separate but similar programs operating at independent urban research universities, collaborate in a Track 3 NSF S-STEM funded project with the overall goal of not only increasing student success but in studying and extending their programs to better reach student populations in need. This collaboration team refers to itself as 'The Urban STEM Collaboratory', and consists of three unique intervention programs, one from each university, that support student success and have demonstrated positive student outcomes throughout the duration of the project, [3,4,5]. Although there are three separate intervention programs, the collaboration provides a platform on which each university can extend their support structures to further meet the needs of diverse urban populations, as well as to study and understand the needs of these populations more nearly. ...

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Board 351: NSF S-STEM Track 3: Scaling Up Student Success through Broadening Participation Beyond our S-STEM Cohort

... Building a sense of community increases student's intent to persist in the engineering field. Prior research in learning communities (namely, assigning students into common classes) shows that this sense of community can be credited with increasing retention of first-year students [4], boosting their first-year GPA, and improving their social experiences [13]. The significantly revised version of the Dean's Seminar course was first taught in the Fall 2021 semester, when the university returned to in-person classes for the first time since March 2020, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

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But wait! There’s more! Developing Students Through a First-Year Course