Enriching the First-Year Experience for Students at an Urban Hispanic-Serving Institution Through Peer Mentoring and Active Inquiry: A Track 1 Project

通过同伴指导和积极探究丰富城市拉美裔服务机构学生的第一年经验：第一轨项目

• 批准号: 0914497
• 负责人: Laura Sanders
• 金额: $ 18.91万
• 依托单位: Northeastern Illinois University
• 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: 2009-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0914497&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enriching; First; Year; Experience; Students

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) is developing new strategies to recruit more underrepresented (largely Hispanic) students to undergraduate Earth Sciences programs by capitalizing on a required First-Year Experience (FYE) curriculum. NEIU is an urban, commuter, comprehensive university located in a residential neighborhood on Chicago's north side that provides education for a large community of minorities underrepresented in the STEM fields. This project is testing a model program to attract students to the geosciences by providing them with a high-quality, invigorating educational experience in their first year that teaches geologic principles and helps them personally connect to the university, the science, and people in the field. Project activities are designed to address the affective domain, which influences students' major and career choices. Students are being exposed to the social relevance of the geosciences through investigation of water pollution, lead in urban soils, and flooding in their neighborhoods, as well as the many other ways that geology influences their daily lives. It is expected that, as students engage with geologic principles through exciting hands-on learning experiences, they will begin to realize the power of geology to make a better life for themselves, their communities, and the world. Student connections to the university, which are oftentimes difficult to achieve for a commuter school, are being encouraged through the use of Peer Mentors who act as academic role models and coaches. Interactions with Earth Science majors and professional geoscientists are being used to encourage their interests in completing an Earth Science degree.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。东北伊利诺伊大学（NEIU）正在制定新的策略，通过要求第一年经验（FYE）课程，招收更多代表性不足（主要是西班牙裔）的学生进入本科地球科学专业。NEIU是一所城市通勤综合性大学，位于芝加哥北部的一个住宅区，为STEM领域代表性不足的大型少数民族社区提供教育。该项目正在测试一个示范项目，通过在第一年为学生提供高质量、充满活力的教育体验，教授地质原理，帮助他们与大学、科学和该领域的人建立个人联系，从而吸引学生进入地球科学领域。项目活动旨在解决影响学生专业和职业选择的情感领域。学生们通过调查水污染、城市土壤中的铅、他们社区的洪水，以及地质学影响他们日常生活的许多其他方式，接触到地球科学的社会相关性。我们希望，当学生们通过令人兴奋的实践学习经验参与地质原理时，他们将开始意识到地质的力量，为自己、社区和世界创造更好的生活。学生与大学之间的联系，对于一所通勤学校来说通常是很难实现的，通过使用作为学术榜样和教练的同伴导师来鼓励学生与大学建立联系。与地球科学专业学生和专业地球科学家的互动被用来鼓励他们完成地球科学学位的兴趣。