The STEM Talent Expansion Program (STEP) provides grants to undergraduate institutions to support strategies to improve recruitment and retention of students in Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). STEP also funds educational research projects focused on degree attainment in STEM.

STEPcentral.net is designed to assist the STEP community by facilitating the sharing of ideas, resources, and data, so that STEP projects can build on each other’s successes and experiences. In addition, it provides resources useful to the broader higher education community (both researchers and practitioners) and to those responsible for shaping educational policy.