The document discusses a collaborative STEM education program with the goal of enhancing retention and graduation rates of college students in STEM disciplines. The program provides mentoring support, engages students in welcoming communities, offers intrusive advising, connects students with faculty mentors, involves students in research early, and includes community college students. Mentoring improves retention, connects students to peers, involves them in communities, helps them identify as scientists, and involves them in meaningful relationships to prevent abandoning STEM majors. The program aims to increase STEM graduates, especially from underrepresented groups, and improve integration and career performance.