STEP To Success

迈向成功的一步

• 批准号: 1161214
• 负责人: Kumara Jayasuriya
• 金额: $ 49.92万
• 依托单位: West Virginia State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1161214&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STEP; Success

This Type 1A project is working to increase the number of graduates receiving baccalaureate degrees in STEM through focused recruiting, early academic support, and ongoing mentoring and student engagement. These activities build on existing support structures at the university and adapt effective practices from other universities to increase STEM enrollment and to reduce attrition among first- and second-year students. The recruiting efforts include evidence-based practices for non-traditional recruiting of underrepresented minorities through contact with parents, churches, and other community organizations. Early academic support features a five-week credit-bearing residential bridge program to address common deficiencies in mathematics, longitudinal learning communities to establish a system of major-oriented peer support, and peer-led supplemental instruction to improve student performance in key freshman- and sophomore-level introductory courses in the STEM programs. Ongoing mentoring and student engagement build on the university's prior success in placing students in undergraduate research positions and internships with university faculty and regional STEM-related employers. The STEP to Success Program is expected to increase enrollment of first-time freshmen in STEM majors by 20% and increase year-to-year retention by 10 percentage points, producing 16 additional STEM graduates per year by the end of the award period, including at least 10 per year from groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM. The intellectual merit of this project lies in its goal of establishing a lasting institutional infrastructure to continue its targeted recruiting efforts, early academic support, and provision of opportunities for student participation in research and internships. The project is exercising broader impact by working through an existing network of sister Historically Black Colleges and Universities to disseminate the results and findings of the project and offer training to faculty, administrators, and students at other institutions interested in replicating the approaches the project is finding most effective.

这个1A类项目正在努力通过有针对性的招聘，早期学术支持以及持续的指导和学生参与来增加获得STEM学士学位的毕业生数量。这些活动以大学现有的支持结构为基础，并采用其他大学的有效做法，以增加STEM入学率，减少一年级和二年级学生的流失。招募工作包括通过与父母、教会和其他社区组织接触，以非传统方式招募代表性不足的少数群体的循证做法。早期的学术支持具有为期五周的学分制住宅桥梁计划，以解决数学中的常见缺陷，纵向学习社区，以建立以专业为导向的同伴支持系统，以及同伴主导的补充指导，以提高学生的表现在STEM计划中的关键大一和大一级别的入门课程。持续的指导和学生参与建立在大学之前成功地将学生安置在大学教师和区域STEM相关雇主的本科研究职位和实习岗位上。STEP to Success计划预计将使STEM专业首次入学新生的入学率增加20%，并使年保留率提高10个百分点，到奖励期结束时每年增加16名STEM毕业生，其中包括每年至少10名来自传统上STEM代表性不足的群体。该项目的智力价值在于其目标是建立一个持久的机构基础设施，以继续其有针对性的招聘工作，早期的学术支持，并为学生参与研究和实习提供机会。该项目正在发挥更广泛的影响，通过姐妹历史黑人学院和大学的现有网络传播该项目的结果和调查结果，并为有兴趣复制该项目发现最有效方法的其他机构的教师，管理人员和学生提供培训。