LSAMP: North Star STEM Alliance

LSAMP：北极星 STEM 联盟

• 批准号: 0703356
• 负责人: Robert Jones
• 金额: $ 245.48万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0703356&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LSAMP; North; Star; STEM; Alliance

The North Star STEM Alliance will broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities in Minnesota in STEM baccalaureate education. The 18 Alliance partners include public and private colleges and universities, community colleges, the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Minnesota High Tech Association. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities will be the lead institution. The configuration of 16 educational institutions, a high technology association with over 300 members, and a leading science and technology museum provides a resource-rich opportunity to address the engagement,capacity, and continuity (ECC) of underrepresented minorities in STEM. Using the critical transition points of middle school to high school, high school to first year of college, first year to sophomore year, transfer from 2-year to 4-year institution, and from lower division to STEM majors, the Alliance sets the following objectives: increase the level of interest in STEM careers by secondary and postsecondary non-STEM students in the targeted population; increase the number of students in the targeted populationcompleting a college preparatory/STEM preparatory high school program; increase the number of high school seniors of the targeted population enrolling in Alliance pre-college STEM and STEM baccalaureate degree programs; increase the number of students from the targeted population completing the associates degree and transferring to the 4-year Alliance schools: and increase the number of students from the targeted population persisting to the STEM baccalaureate. The North Star STEM Alliance will provide a comprehensive longitudinal set of initiatives to address these objectives at the critical transition points. The initiatives will include Alliance-wide community building conferences, bridge programs, peer-to-peer learning, undergraduate research opportunities, industry internships and professional development, contextual STEM course module development workshops, college prep STEM high school curriculum, and public communication campaigns of current STEM research. The intellectual merit of the Alliance project includes a contribution to the statewide discussion of student achievement in higher education in Minnesota, with a particular emphasis on STEM and underrepresented minorities, and on what works, what matters, and why. Due to the rigor of the entering qualifications for pursuing STEM, the Alliance outcomes will augment the discussions of the appropriateness and accuracy of predictors of student performance in institutions of higher learning, especially in regards to underrepresented minorities. In addition, because of the diversity of the educational missions of Alliance partners, the project will stimulate discussion on the scholarly literature on access and equity in highereducation and the policy implications for interventions at varying educational institutions. The inclusion of high-achieving underrepresented minorities amongst the institutions also presents an opportunity for the Alliance to weigh in on specific intellectual achievement issues such as stereotype threat and overprediction, which are based on high-achieving minority populations. The Alliance's experience with overcoming the relative isolation of underrepresented minorities on campuses outside of the Twin Cities Metro area will also contribute to understanding the critical role of student cohort building. The broader impacts of Alliance activities will be the advancement of discovery and understanding by the involvement of underrepresented minorities in the current research of STEM faculty and scientists, the development of contextual STEM modules in the curriculum that can be replicated at other educational institutions, and the public communication of the current rigorous research of underrepresented STEM faculty. The Alliance will increase the number of underrepresented minorities exposed to activities that allow them to make informed choices about STEM careers. Undergraduate research initiatives across Alliance institutions will enhance the research and education infrastructure by allowing Alliance students and faculty from different disciplines and different institutions with limited research infrastructures to access science and technology and engineering research centers on Alliance members' campuses possessing these facilities. The composition of the Alliance will promote broader dissemination through collaborative presentations of Alliance pedagogical and research activities at the distinct professional organizations and conferences of Alliance members. The Alliance will benefit society by providing the foundation for the development of the next generation of civically engaged STEM scholars.

北极星STEM联盟将扩大明尼苏达州代表不足的少数族裔在STEM学士学位教育方面的参与。联盟的18个合作伙伴包括公立和私立学院和大学、社区学院、明尼苏达州科学博物馆和明尼苏达州高科技协会。明尼苏达双城大学将是牵头机构。由16个教育机构、一个拥有300多名成员的高科技协会和一个领先的科学技术博物馆组成的结构提供了一个资源丰富的机会，以解决STEM中代表性不足的少数群体的参与、能力和连续性问题。利用初中到高中、高中到大学一年级、一年级到二年级、从两年制转到四年制以及从低级到STEM专业的关键过渡点，联盟设定了以下目标：提高目标人群中中学和中学后非STEM学生对STEM职业的兴趣；增加目标人群中完成大学预科/STEM预科高中课程的学生人数；增加目标人群中参加联盟大学预科STEM和STEM学士学位课程的高中高年级学生的人数；增加目标人群中完成副学士学位并转到四年制联盟学校的学生数量：并增加目标人群中坚持STEM学士学位的学生数量。北极星STEM联盟将提供一套全面的纵向倡议，以在关键的过渡点实现这些目标。这些倡议将包括联盟范围的社区建设会议、桥梁计划、点对点学习、本科生研究机会、行业实习和专业发展、情景STEM课程模块开发研讨会、大学预科STEM高中课程以及当前STEM研究的公共交流活动。该联盟项目的学术价值包括对明尼苏达州全州范围内关于学生在高等教育中的成就的讨论，特别强调STEM和代表不足的少数族裔，以及什么管用，什么重要，为什么。由于攻读STEM的入学资格非常严格，联盟的成果将加强关于高等教育机构学生成绩预测指标的适当性和准确性的讨论，特别是关于代表性不足的少数群体的预测。此外，由于联盟合作伙伴的教育使命各不相同，该项目将推动关于高等教育机会和公平的学术文献的讨论，以及对不同教育机构干预措施的政策影响。将成绩优异、代表性不足的少数群体纳入这些机构也为联盟提供了一个机会，使其有机会就具体的智力成就问题发表意见，例如陈规定型的威胁和过度预测，这些问题都是基于成绩优异的少数群体。该联盟在克服双子城大都市区外校园中代表不足的少数群体相对孤立的问题上的经验，也将有助于理解学生群体建设的关键作用。联盟活动的更广泛影响将是通过让代表不足的少数群体参与STEM教员和科学家的当前研究，在课程中开发可在其他教育机构复制的相关STEM模块，以及公开宣传代表不足的STEM教员目前的严格研究，从而促进发现和理解。该联盟将增加参加活动的人数不足的少数族裔人数，使他们能够在知情的情况下选择STEM职业。联盟各机构的本科生研究计划将通过允许来自不同学科和研究基础设施有限的不同机构的联盟学生和教职员工访问拥有这些设施的联盟成员校园内的科学技术和工程研究中心来加强研究和教育基础设施。联盟的组成将通过在不同的专业组织和联盟成员会议上协作介绍联盟的教学和研究活动来促进更广泛的传播。该联盟将为培养下一代从事公民活动的STEM学者提供基础，从而造福社会。