Youngstown State University - College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

STEM

Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program

About COFSP

In Spring 2008, the State of Ohio awarded $4.5 million of the Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program (COFSP) to a consortium comprising Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, Kent State University, University of Akron, and Youngstown State University to increase the number of STEM graduates in Northeast Ohio by improving mathematics preparedness for STEM majors.

The intent of the Youngstown State University part of the consortium grant is to identify high school students who are interested in STEM programs, have potential for STEM areas, and need special help to make them precalculus or calculus ready, help provided through free Summer enrichment programs in the summers following their junior and senior high school years. Critical to carrying out this mission will be Youngstown State University's partnering secondary institutions.

Youngstown State University is joined by partnering secondary institutions in implementing this goal in the Mahoning Valley: Chaney High School (Youngstown), East High School (Youngstown), Girard High School (Girard), Warren G. Harding High School (Warren), and Youngstown Early College (Youngstown + Youngstown State University). The specific purpose of this coalition is to identify and prepare four cohorts of up to 40 students for immediate registration in precalculus or calculus the Fall semester of their freshman year in a consortium institution in a STEM major, the four cohorts to matriculate in four successive academic years beginning with Fall 2008.

Under the terms of the grant, cohort students successfully completing the senior Summer enrichment program by achieving a chosen target of precalculus readiness or a chosen target of calculus readiness would be eligible on a need basis for no less than $1,500 and no more than $4,700 in COFSP tuition monies for a maximum expenditure of $84,600 per cohort per year.

For information on the COFSP at other consortium institutions in Northeast Ohio, please go to http://www.csuohio.edu/success_in_math/.

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