Planning grant for Philander Smith College Little Rock Arkansas

根据历史上的黑人学院和大学本科课程的这一规划拨款提案将使菲兰德史密斯学院（PSC）参与规划工作，以丰富机构计划，并为加强其STM计划产生一个全面的建议。 几个领域将进行调查：增加学生进入PSC STM计划的数量;提高保留率;加强新生前计划和重新设计新生课程，以改变教学策略和增加技术注入;开发新课程，包括跨学科方法和新技术;增加学生的研究经验;让教师参与专业发展机会，以提高他们的教学和研究能力;并提供必要的支持基础设施的改进。 内部指导委员会将通过工作会议，个人成员任务分配，社区论坛，教师/工作人员/学生研讨会，现场访问/示范大学计划以及其他战略和评估工具来实施规划过程。 一个外部咨询委员会将监督规划过程和全面提案的制定。该学院将举办一个论坛，以获得来自当地三个学区和其他指定地区的代表的意见，以解决招聘和留住学生。 将举行STM机会论坛，向学生介绍校园，社区领袖，教师，辅导员，学生，教授，科学家和许多其他人。该论坛将作为一个平台，重点是增加少数民族参与高等教育的人数，并在STM的职业生涯中取得成功。 活动还将包括对大学规划补助金网站和NSF/HBCU-UP模型网站的实地考察;与教职员工就计划重新设计进行重点讨论和研讨会，以支持研究和教师发展;分析数据和问卷调查;并密切关注学生离开高中和进入PSC本科课程之间目前存在的课程差距。该项目的智力价值在于，规划过程旨在提供一种逻辑方法来评估该机构需要加强其STM计划的问题，并制定一项全面的建议来解决这些需求，并提供一项计划，可以显着提高PSC的STM学术能力。这项规划赠款的更广泛影响是加强了PSC的STM学术能力，这将导致非洲裔美国学生的数量和准备的增加，可以在社会的这一重要领域做出贡献。

This planning grant proposal under the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program will enable Philander Smith College (PSC) to engage in planning efforts to enrich the institutional plan and to produce a comprehensive proposal for strengthening its STM program. Several areas will be investigated: increasing the number of students entering PSC STM programs; improving retention; enhancing the pre-freshman program and redesigning the freshman level courses to change instructional strategies and increase infusion of technology; developing new courses to include interdisciplinary approaches and new technological techniques; increasing the research experiences of students; engaging faculty in professional development opportunities to enhance their instructional and research capability; and providing necessary supporting infrastructure enhancements. The Internal Steering Committee will implement the planning process through working sessions, individual member task assignments, the Community Forum, Faculty/Staff/Students seminars, Site Visits/Model University Programs, and other strategies and assessment tools. An External Advisory Committee will oversee the planning process and development of a comprehensive proposal. The college will host a forum to gain input from representatives from the three local school districts and other identified districts to address recruiting and retaining students. A STM Opportunity Forum will be held to introduce students to the campus, community leaders, teachers, counselors, students, professors, scientists, and many others. This forum will serve as a platform to focus on enhancing the number of minorities participating in higher education and to succeed in careers in STM. Activities will also include site visits to a university planning grant site and NSF/HBCU-UP model sites; to hold focus discussions and seminars with faculty and staff on program redesign to support research as well as faculty development; to analyze data and questionnaires; and to look closely at gaps in curricula that presently exist between students leaving high school and entering undergraduate courses of study at PSC. The intellectual merit of this project is that the planning process is being designed to provide a logical approach to assessing the issues at the institution needed to strengthen its STM program and to develop a comprehensive proposal to address these needs and provide a plan that can significantly contribute to increasing the STM academic capability at PSC. The broader impacts of this planning grant is the strengthening of the STM academic capability at PSC which will result in the increase of the number and preparedness of African American students that can contribute in this essential area of society.