The First2 Network, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, is working to generate compelling, actionable information on how participating institutions can improve the success of STEM college students. To accomplish this, we fund institutional teams to test and share high-impact practices to improve the college enrollment rate and success of undergraduate STEM students, focusing on rural, first-generation, and low-income students. Learn more here.
In 2016 a small band of people were awarded a two-year grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to try some promising practices that could impact STEM persistence, and to conduct preliminary research aimed at better understanding the motivation of rural first-generation STEM students; in 2018 we became one of 5 NSF INCLUDES Alliances to be funded nation-wide. Learn more about what our current support team looks like here.
Knowledge-sharing with like-minded others in support of STEM students is a major benefit of participation in First2 Network. We are grateful to our founding principal investigators and all of our past and present organizational partners including our higher education, government, industry, and non-profit partners for helping move our work forward. Learn more about our First2 partners here.
We are excited to have so many campus partners as collaborators in this important change work! All of our campus partners host academic year programs for students including campus clubs and paid student positions. Learn more about our First2 campus partners here.