Every year, 12 or more Ohio students will benefit from the STEM Ohio grant supplied by the ODHE to Miami. For Miami, the Choose Ohio First (COF) grant will be the largest such grant received. Miami officials have stated that it will be used primarily for first-year students concentrating on areas of study such as manufacturing engineering, process control, and robotics engineering.
If successful, this COF grant will increase the number of Miami University graduates carrying Business Cards that identify them as employed in the fields of engineering and computing.
ODHE Chancellor Rand Gardner stated in a letter to recipients:
“As part of the largest number of institutional grantees in COF history, (Miami’s) proposal to provide STEM scholarships will help improve Ohio’s workforce capacity to innovate and grow our economy.”
The COF scholarship was established in 2008. It began as a way to raise the number of Ohio students entering and successfully completing STEM programs at public and independent colleges and universities across the state.
This COF grant is not the first that Miami has received. It was awarded two four-year grants for the 2013-2021 Bioinformatics scholarship program, which was used to award up to $5,000 annual scholarships to over 75 students for a total of $375,000.
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