HBCU-UP Planning Grant

HBCU-UP 规划补助金

• 批准号: 0102676
• 负责人: Aliakbar Haghighi
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Benedict College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-15 至 2002-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0102676&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HBCU; UP; Planning; Grant

A majority of entering students begin their college careers with inadequatemathematics background to pursue SMET careers. The purpose of the proposedplanning program is to design a comprehensive program to overcome theseentering deficiencies to improve the participation and performance of minoritystudents in SMET disciplines. The overall goals of the planning program will be(a) to assess the strengths, weaknesses and needs of mathematics instruction aswell as other gate-keeping courses in the SMET disciplines; and (b) to assess undergraduate student research needs and opportunities in SMET disciplines on and off campus.Assessment includes, student performances on many items such as the Sophomore Proficiency Examination, Major Area Examinations, Graduate and ProfessionalSchool Entrance Examinations, success in advanced programs, presentations of research papers at professional conferences, professional publications, and the type of employment and advancement in ranks.Assessment of the quality of faculty members in the SMET disciplines will be doneby a review of the credentials of faculty members as compared to the SMET facultyin other institutions and the standards set by accrediting bodies and performance portfolios. In assessing faculty development and recruitment needs, the ratio of instructor/students in mathematics and other SMET disciplines will be compared with other majors at Benedict, as well as with other similar institutions.Visitation to other institutions with SMET's curricula that have recently been reformed due to NSF effort, self-study or otherwise, will help Benedict to havea better assessment of the College's current SMET's curricula. This is also the casewhen selected staff members of the Task Force visit sites that they have recently reformed their SMET's curricula.The current and future technology needs for SMET courses, in general, and SMETmajors, in particular, will be assessed.Consultants with expertise in SMET curricula will be used in the overall process ofassessing the current curricula and potentially improving and/or redesigning them. It will be made certain that high-level decision-making administrators (President, his cabinet, and deans) review the comprehensive proposal and approve its contents before submission to NSF .An internal advisory committee, (Task Force), will help to guide the work and to assess the planing program. In particular, this committee will help assess and analyze data and plan/design the curriculum for the comprehensive program.It is anticipated that the proposed project will result in the development of a competitive proposal for submission to the National Science Foundation for funding through the HBCU-UP Program. The proposal will be based on an accurate assessment ofcurrent and future needs in the SMET programs at Benedict College. Results of theseassessment activities will also provide information needed by the College to improve other areas that bear on the performance of students in the SMET disciplines.

大多数进入大学的学生在开始他们的大学生涯时，都没有足够的数学背景来从事SMET职业。计划计划的目的是设计一个全面的计划，以克服这些入学缺陷，以提高少数族裔学生在SMET学科的参与度和表现。规划方案的总体目标将是：(A)评估数学教学的优势、劣势和需求，以及SMET学科中的其他把关课程；以及(B)评估本科生在MMET学科内和校外的研究需求和机会。评估包括学生在许多项目上的表现，如大二水平考试、专业领域考试、研究生和专业入学考试、高级课程的成功、在专业会议上发表的研究论文、专业出版物、以及排名中的就业和晋升类型。评估MMET学科的教职员工的质量将通过审查教师相对于其他机构SMET学院的资历以及认证机构和绩效组合设定的标准来完成。在评估教师发展和招聘需求时，数学和其他MMET学科的教师/学生比例将与本尼迪克特大学的其他专业以及其他类似机构进行比较。参观其他拥有MMET课程的机构，这些机构最近因NSF的努力、自学或其他原因而进行了改革，这将有助于本尼迪克特对学院目前的MMET课程有更好的评估。当特别工作组的选定工作人员访问他们最近改革了SMET课程的地点时，也是如此。将评估SMET课程，特别是SMET专业当前和未来的技术需求。在评估当前课程以及可能改进和/或重新设计现有课程的整个过程中，将使用在SMET课程方面具有专业知识的顾问。在提交给NSF之前，将确保高级决策管理人员(总统、他的内阁和院长)审查综合提案并批准其内容。内部咨询委员会(特别工作组)将帮助指导工作和评估规划计划。特别是，该委员会将帮助评估和分析数据，并计划/设计综合课程的课程。预计拟议的项目将导致开发一份竞争性提案，提交给国家科学基金会，通过HBCU-UP项目获得资金。该提案将基于对本尼迪克特学院SMET项目当前和未来需求的准确评估。这些评估活动的结果还将提供学院所需的信息，以改进其他与学生在SMET学科中的表现有关的领域。