Success Partnerships for Increasing Recruitment into Technology (SPIRIT)

增加技术招聘的成功合作伙伴关系 (SPIRIT)

• 批准号: 0836020
• 负责人: Chinya Ravishankar
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of California-Riverside
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-11-01 至 2010-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0836020&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Success; Partnerships; Increasing; Recruitment; into

This exploratory project will develop Success Partnership for Increasing Recruitment into Technology (SPIRIT), which will integrate and build upon ongoing effective programs at secondary schools, community colleges, and the University of California, Riverside (UCR). San Bernardino and Riverside counties in Southern California together are larger than 10 states and home to more than 4 million people, but the region lags behind much of California in college matriculation rates and economic opportunity. This project will build on a year-old initiative from the Alliance for Education, operated by the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, to establish pre-engineering curricula in high schools throughout the county. UCR will integrate outreach activities, mentoring, tutoring, design experiences, and teacher workshops into this initiative. The project will raise awareness of engineering and highlight the relevance of math and science instruction, increase student readiness to succeed in college engineering studies by strengthening their math and science preparation, and establish ongoing dialog among school teachers, school administrators, district administrators, community colleges, and four-year institutions? faculty and administrators.The project will emphasize fundamental engineering skills necessary for success in engineering which will help to secure our continuing leadership in technology by encouraging more students to enter engineering. The project will reach a large number of underrepresented minority students, and recruiting more of these students will increase and diversify the pipeline from K-12 to university engineering programs. UCR is one of America?s most diverse research-intensive universities. Approximately 35% of undergraduates are underrepresented minorities, and it is an accredited Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). In addition, the schools involved in this project are also highly diverse. Having UCR college students tutor high school students in math and science will demonstrate to these students that people from neighborhoods and cultural backgrounds similar to their own can succeed in college and go on to careers in engineering. The activities also will build a sense of community and commitment on the part of the college students.

这一探索性项目将开发成功的合作伙伴关系，以增加技术招聘（SPIRIT），这将整合和建立在中学，社区学院和加州大学，滨江（UCR）正在进行的有效计划。加州南部的圣贝纳迪诺和滨江县加起来超过10个州，人口超过400万，但该地区在大学入学率和经济机会方面落后于加州的大部分地区。该项目将建立在圣贝纳迪诺县学校主管管理的教育联盟的一年倡议的基础上，在全县的高中建立工程学预科课程。UCR将把推广活动、指导、辅导、设计经验和教师研讨会纳入这一倡议。该项目将提高对工程的认识，突出数学和科学教学的相关性，通过加强学生的数学和科学准备，提高学生在大学工程研究中取得成功的准备程度，并在学校教师、学校管理人员、地区管理人员、社区学院和四年制院校之间建立持续的对话。该项目将强调在工程方面取得成功所必需的基本工程技能，这将有助于通过鼓励更多的学生进入工程领域，确保我们在技术方面的持续领先地位。该项目将接触到大量代表性不足的少数民族学生，招募更多的这些学生将增加和多样化从K-12到大学工程课程的管道。UCR是美国的一个？美国最多样化的研究密集型大学。大约35%的本科生是代表性不足的少数民族，它是一个认可的西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）。此外，参与该项目的学校也非常多样化。让UCR的大学生辅导高中生的数学和科学将向这些学生证明，来自社区和文化背景与他们相似的人可以在大学取得成功，并继续从事工程职业。这些活动还将培养大学生的社区意识和责任感。