Deaf STEM Community Alliance: Supporting Postsecondary Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

“聋人STEM社区联盟：在科学、技术、工程和数学方面支持高等教育聋人和听力障碍学生”由罗切斯特理工学院的国家聋人研究所领导，并有两个合作机构：康奈尔大学和卡姆登县社区学院。该项目的目标是建立一个虚拟学术社区的模型，从长远来看，该模型将提高聋人和听力困难的STEM专业在高等教育中的毕业率。有两个目标支持实现这一目标：1)记录和传播创建虚拟学术社区过程的描述，以创建一个可扩展的模型，该模型可以复制，以满足STEM专业其他残疾学生的需求；2)提高STEM专业聋人和听力障碍学生的平均绩点和保留率。Babara Lee Gelesko McKee博士正在对这项工作进行独立的外部评估。这项工作的结果将在项目网站、专业演讲和专业期刊上向公众公布。

The "Deaf STEM Community Alliance: Supporting Postsecondary Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics," is led by the Rochester Institute of Technology's National Institute for the Deaf with two parterning institutions: Cornell University and Camden County Community College. This project's goal is to establish a model for a Virtual Academic Community that will increase graduation rates of Deaf and Hard of Hearing STEM majors in postsecondary education in the long term. Two objectives support progress toward this goal: 1) Document and disseminate a description of the process of creating the Virtual Academic Community in order to create a scalable model that can be replicated to fit the needs of other students with disabilities in STEM majors; and, 2) increasing the grade point averages and retention rates of Deaf and Hard of Hearing postsecondary students in STEM majors.An independent external evaluation of the work is being conducted by Dr. Babara Lee Gelesko McKee. Results from the work will be available to the public on the project website, at professional presentations and in professional journals.