Academic Opportunities through Recruitment, Retention & Mentoring for Undergraduate Minorities in Biotechnology & Forensic Science

通过招聘、保留获得学术机会

• 批准号: 1259640
• 负责人: Sarwan Dhir
• 金额: $ 62.72万
• 依托单位: Fort Valley State University
• 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: 2013-06-15 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1259640&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Academic; Opportunities; through; Recruitment; Retention

Intellectual merit : This project's goals at Fort Valley State University (FVSU) are: 1) to achieve full retention of talented but financially disadvantaged undergraduates majoring in the sciences, while significantly reducing their time to graduation; 2) to recruit disadvantaged but talented scholars into STEM majors, making efforts to reach underrepresented minorities and; 3) to prepare them not only to pursue advanced degrees in STEM but also to play educational, leadership and managerial roles in STEM fields. The project targets 33 fulltime FVSU undergraduate students enrolling in Plant Science-Biotechnology (25 scholarships) and Biology/Forensic Science (8 scholarships). A Scholarship Screening and Selection Committee is formed to foster this program and consists of distinguished faculty members recognized for their mentoring ability and scholarship from diverse STEM fields as well as the Financial Aid Director. Each scholarship recipient is assigned a designated faculty mentor to guide the recipient's academic development. A rich array of opportunities are available to the scholarship recipients including a monthly seminar, tutoring, summer internship and service learning positions, field trips, faculty-student collaborative research, attendance at conferences, and alumni mentoring and comprehensive career counseling. The biotechnology and forensic science scholarships broaden the horizons of FVSU students in considering their career choices. Broader impacts: The geographic niche that FVSU serves includes south-central Georgia which is characterized by a high proportion of African American residents in rural setting that are often afflicted by persistent poverty. FVSU is a historically black university, and a vast majority (93% of enrolled students) are minority students that are characteristically under-represented in STEM fields. This project supports a larger STEM initiative that seeks to increase and strengthen partnerships, networks and collaborations between HBCUs and mainstream universities, state and regional forensic and health sciences laboratories, USDA and other agricultural enterprises. Through this project greater numbers of financially needy students are presented opportunities to successfully complete their baccalaureate degrees and go on to pursue graduate programs or enter careers in a broad range of science-related fields, meeting regional and national workforce needs. This program serves as a model for adapting the successful activities for other minority-serving institutions seeking to promote undergraduate mentoring programs in STEM.

智力优势：福特谷州立大学 (FVSU) 该项目的目标是： 1) 充分保留有才华但经济困难的理科本科生，同时显着缩短他们的毕业时间； 2) 招募弱势但有才华的学者进入 STEM 专业，努力覆盖代表性不足的少数群体； 3) 让他们不仅为攻读STEM高级学位做好准备，而且为在STEM领域发挥教育、领导和管理作用做好准备。该项目针对 33 名全日制 FVSU 本科生，攻读植物科学-生物技术（25 项奖学金）和生物学/法医学（8 项奖学金）。为促进该计划而成立了奖学金筛选和遴选委员会，该委员会由来自不同 STEM 领域的因其指导能力和奖学金而受到认可的杰出教职人员以及经济援助总监组成。每位奖学金获得者都会被指派一名指定的导师来指导获奖者的学术发展。奖学金获得者可以获得丰富的机会，包括每月研讨会、辅导、暑期实习和服务学习职位、实地考察、师生合作研究、参加会议、校友指导和全面的职业咨询。生物技术和法医学奖学金拓宽了 FVSU 学生考虑职业选择的视野。更广泛的影响：FVSU 服务的地理环境包括佐治亚州中南部，该地区的特点是农村地区非裔美国居民比例很高，这些居民经常遭受持续贫困的困扰。 FVSU 是一所历史悠久的黑人大学，绝大多数（93% 的注册学生）是少数族裔学生，他们在 STEM 领域的代表性不足。该项目支持一项更大规模的 STEM 计划，旨在增加和加强 HBCU 与主流大学、州和地区法医学和健康科学实验室、美国农业部和其他农业企业之间的伙伴关系、网络和合作。通过该项目，更多有经济困难的学生有机会成功完成学士学位，并继续攻读研究生课程或进入广泛的科学相关领域的职业，从而满足地区和国家的劳动力需求。该计划为其他寻求推广 STEM 本科生辅导计划的少数族裔服务机构的成功活动提供了借鉴。