STEM Pioneer Project

STEM 先锋计划

• 批准号: 0431572
• 负责人: Michael Summers
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Tidewater Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-10-01 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431572&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STEM; Pioneer; Project

Under the supervision of the Tidewater Community College Women's Center, the Pioneer Project is demonstrating that bright, community college women at risk of dropping out of college can graduate within three years with A. S degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) prepared for transfer to B. S. programs. The objectives of the project include: 1. Persistence to graduation. 115 women, who would not have been able to graduate in STEM majors, graduate. 2. Retention of women. Retention of women students in STEM classes rises from the present level of 74% to 85%. 3. Recruitment. The number of women enrolled in STEM disciplines rises from current levels of 40% to 59%, their proportion of the college population. 4. Academic and career success. Long-term tracking shows that 60% of participants are persisting at the transfer college and entering their chosen profession. Project participants are being tested to assure that they are in the best program for their interests and abilities. They receive both academic advising and intervention counseling. Trained supplementary instruction leaders as well as mentors are available to all participants. Participants meet regularly in a support group for career guidance and transfer assistance. STEM faculty attend annual workshops to receive training in how to create a female-friendly classroom and select materials intrinsically interesting to women; faculty are also be helped to improve their academic advising. During their final semester, students take an experiential capstone course in women's work in which they regularly shadow a professional in their field. Intellectual Merit: This project addresses a seldom-studied problem which is low graduation rates for bright, at risk, community college women who wish to enter STEM professions. The project builds on special assistance efforts taking place at this large, urban community college. Strategies to be employed include those which have succeeded with other populations at this college and at other colleges, but which are combined in a new form and with the addition of a newly created hands-on course for students in their last semester. Faculty workshops by an experienced trainer from an institution that has warmed its chilly classrooms for women are being carried out each year until all full-time STEM faculty are trained. Broader Impacts: By creating a model program to benefit smart, at-risk community college women, the goals are to not only improve the environment for the college's women to succeed, but also to create materials and a replicable model that would pave the way to success in science, math, engineering, and technology for the many non-traditional college women whose only avenue to STEM professions is through the first line of access to higher education, the community college.

在潮水社区学院女性中心的监督下，先锋项目正在证明，有辍学风险的聪明的社区学院女性可以在三年内毕业，获得科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的学士学位，并准备转到学士学位课程。该项目的目标包括：1。坚持到毕业。115名原本无法从STEM专业毕业的女性毕业了。2. 保留女性。STEM课程的女学生保留率从目前的74%上升到85%。3. 招聘。在STEM学科中注册的女性人数从目前的40%上升到59%，这是她们在大学人口中的比例。4. 学业和事业上的成功。长期跟踪调查显示，60%的学员坚持转学，进入了他们选择的职业。项目参与者正在接受测试，以确保他们在最适合他们兴趣和能力的项目中。他们接受学术建议和干预咨询。所有参与者都可以获得训练有素的补充指导领导和导师。参与者定期在一个支持小组会面，以获得职业指导和转学援助。STEM教师参加年度研讨会，接受有关如何创建女性友好教室和选择女性感兴趣的材料的培训；教师也将得到帮助，以提高他们的学术指导。在最后一个学期，学生们将学习一门关于女性工作的体验式顶点课程，在这门课程中，他们会定期跟随该领域的专业人士。智力优势：这个项目解决了一个很少被研究的问题，即希望进入STEM专业的聪明、有风险的社区大学女性的毕业率很低。该项目建立在这所大型城市社区大学的特殊援助工作的基础上。所采用的策略包括那些在本学院和其他学院的其他人群中取得成功的策略，但这些策略以一种新的形式结合起来，并在最后一个学期为学生增加了一门新创建的实践课程。每年都会举办由一位经验丰富的培训师举办的教师研讨会，该培训师来自一家为女性温暖其寒冷教室的机构，直到所有全职STEM教师都接受了培训。更广泛的影响：通过创建一个有利于聪明、有风险的社区大学女性的示范项目，目标不仅是改善学院女性成功的环境，而且是为许多非传统大学女性创造材料和可复制的模式，为她们在科学、数学、工程和技术方面的成功铺平道路，这些女性进入STEM专业的唯一途径是通过进入高等教育的第一线，即社区大学。