The U.S. Department of Education — through its Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) STEM and Articulation Program — has awarded Santa Monica College (SMC) a five-year grant totaling nearly $5 million dollars ($4,944,951) specifically for its Engage, Succeed, and Advance in STEM (ESA-STEM) project. Through this grant, SMC will serve Hispanic and lower-income students majoring in STEM by providing outreach events, STEM Makerspace programming, establishing an application-based program called “Maximizing Achievement in STEM” — “MÁS” in short (for “more” in Spanish) — for underrepresented STEM students, among other activities.
The third such five-year federal STEM grant, it will enable SMC to expand and build upon the activities of the prior grants received in 2011 and 2016 in order to increase the number of Hispanic and low-income…
