Access to the Science Education of a Four-Year Liberal Arts College for Economically Disadvantaged Students

为经济困难的学生提供四年制文理学院的科学教育

• 批准号: 0849728
• 负责人: Louis Liotta
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Stonehill College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0849728&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Access; Science; Education; Four; Year

The college seeks to attract a larger and more diverse student population to its science community, increase enrollment and graduation rates in the sciences, and, in collaboration with Massasoit Community College, grow the community college science transfer track. The program requires increased financial aid in order to attract more underrepresented science majors. The project allows expansion of an existing Science Talent Expansion Program (STEP) grant by offering science scholarships to deserving, financially disadvantaged students with an emphasis on minorities. The project is funding 14 four-year scholarships for first-year students and ten two-year scholarships for Massasoit transfers. These scholarships average $7,500 annually, depending on the recipients' financial needs. Intellectual Merit: Using best practices to promote increased participation in the sciences, the college is working with disadvantaged area high schools and with Massasoit to provide a student-centered approach to science learning and to improve science advising that helps students transfer to four-year undergraduate institutions. With a sound foundation on which to build, the scholarship program provides an additional incentive--increasing access to a high-quality, interdisciplinary and experiential science education. Broader Impact: This project serves as a model illustrating how a private liberal arts college can collaborate with a community college to improve transfer access and illustrating how high school students can benefit from pre-college educational opportunities and college scholarship funding. The broader impact of this project is a larger and more diverse science workforce for the region. In the northeastern United States, where the scientific and biotechnology sectors are particularly strong, increasing the number of biology, chemistry, physics, neuroscience, and biochemistry graduates at the two institutions is having a significant impact on workforce development.

该学院旨在吸引更大，更多样化的学生群体到其科学社区，提高科学的入学率和毕业率，并与Massasoit社区学院合作，发展社区学院科学转移轨道。该计划需要增加财政援助，以吸引更多的代表性不足的科学专业。该项目允许扩大现有的科学人才扩展计划（STEP）赠款，为值得的，经济上处于不利地位的学生提供科学奖学金，重点是少数民族。该项目为一年级学生提供14个四年期奖学金，为Massasoit转学生提供10个两年期奖学金。这些奖学金平均每年7 500美元，取决于受助人的经济需要。智力优势：利用最佳实践，以促进更多的参与科学，学院正在与贫困地区高中和Massasoit合作，提供以学生为中心的科学学习方法，并改善科学咨询，帮助学生转学到四年制本科院校。有了坚实的基础，奖学金计划提供了额外的激励-增加获得高质量，跨学科和体验式科学教育的机会。更广泛的影响：该项目作为一个模型，说明了私立文理学院如何与社区学院合作，以提高转学机会，并说明了高中生如何从大学预科教育机会和大学奖学金中受益。该项目的更广泛影响是为该地区建立更大和更多样化的科学工作队伍。在科学和生物技术部门特别强大的美国东北部，增加这两个机构的生物学、化学、物理学、神经科学和生物化学毕业生人数对劳动力发展产生了重大影响。