One Degree, Many Careers: Opening Doors for STEM Majors

一个学位，多种职业：为 STEM 专业打开大门

• 批准号: 1259351
• 负责人: Arlene Russell
• 金额: $ 62.76万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1259351&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Degree; Many; Careers; Opening; Doors

This project is providing financial, academic, and peer support of high-need STEM majors who, because they desire both to be trained as a professional scientist or mathematician and seek a career in teaching, are traditionally marginalized by the culture of the research university. The project is enabling these talented students to give back to the community, to make a difference, and to serve as a steppingstone for graduate school as appropriate to each individual S-STEM Scholar. A robust assessment and evaluation plan includes longitudinal data that will assess the impact of research experiences and mentorships on a teacher's classroom practices and its subsequent effect on motivating the teacher's students to purse STEM education and careers. The assessment is also establishing the effect of the mentoring experience on graduate students' confidence and success in entering academic positions in higher education.As a scientist or mathematician, each S-STEM Scholar adds one person to the workforce; as STEM teacher, each S-STEM Scholars can inspire many students to pursue STEM careers. The scholarships are reducing unmet financial need, thereby enabling S-STEM Scholars to concentrate on course-work during the academic year, to pursue strategies to shorten time-to-degree, to have time to engage in meaningful near-peer mentoring activities, and to participate in a variety of professional networking opportunities. The project is devoting equal resources to continuing UCLA students and to students completing their final years after transferring to UCLA from a 2-year school.

该项目为高需求的STEM专业学生提供财政、学术和同伴支持，这些学生既希望成为专业科学家或数学家，又希望从事教学工作，传统上被研究型大学的文化边缘化。该项目使这些有才华的学生能够回馈社会，发挥作用，并为每个S-STEM学者提供适当的研究生院的垫脚石。一个强有力的评估和评估计划包括纵向数据，这些数据将评估研究经验和指导对教师课堂实践的影响，以及它对激励教师的学生接受STEM教育和职业生涯的后续影响。该评估同时也在验证师徒经历对研究生信心和成功进入高等教育学术职位的影响。作为一名科学家或数学家，每个S-STEM学者都会为劳动力增加一个人；作为STEM教师，每位S-STEM学者都可以激励许多学生追求STEM职业。奖学金减少了未满足的经济需求，从而使S-STEM学者能够在学年期间专注于课程作业，采取策略缩短获得学位的时间，有时间参加有意义的近同伴指导活动，并参加各种专业交流机会。该项目为加州大学洛杉矶分校的在读学生和从两年制学校转到加州大学洛杉矶分校完成最后几年学业的学生投入了同等的资源。