Pitzer College Mentors Enable, Connect, Help, Advocate, Nurture, Intervene, Sustain, and Motivate (MECHANISM) for Success in the Molecular Sciences

皮策学院导师为分子科学领域的成功提供支持、联系、帮助、倡导、培育、干预、维持和激励（机制）

• 批准号: 1356684
• 负责人: Kathleen Purvis-Roberts
• 金额: $ 60.24万
• 依托单位: Pitzer College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-04-15 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1356684&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pitzer; College; Mentors; Enable; Connect

Through the Mentors Enable, Connect, Help, Advocate, Nurture, Intervene, Sustain, and Motivate (MECHANISM) project a team of faculty and administrators at Pitzer College is increasing the number of academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn baccalaureate degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, or molecular biology. The project is recruiting sixteen first-year students with the goal of retaining them to graduation in the selected STEM fields through a comprehensive program of student development that emphasizes the value of utilizing academic resources. In providing increased access to these majors, the project is contributing to the enlargement of the STEM workforce that can help meet regional and national needs. In addition, to broaden participation, students from groups that are under-represented in the sciences - African American, Latino(a) American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, and Native American (ALANA) - are actively being recruited.Technical features of the project implementation involve students in an array of opportunities including (a) learning from peer mentors (tutoring and supplemental instruction), (b) improving written communication skills (Writing Center), (c) experiencing other cultures (Study Abroad), (d) creating peer networks and practicing high-level reasoning skills (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Immersion Program), (d) contributing to cutting-edge research, and (e) participating in internships. Data generated through assessment and evaluation is expected to support the rationale that high retention of students in STEM fields is achievable through cultivation of "cultural capital," (e.g. dispositions, attitudes, and beliefs related to students' academic success throughout their academic careers). Project evaluation focuses on student academic engagement and use of support services, student content knowledge, and faculty feedback. Moreover, the project expects to track its students after graduation and interview them about the project's ongoing impact. Dissemination of the project results is expected to provide a model for how helping STEM students develop cultural capital can be used as a means of retaining them through graduation. The project team plans to present its work through Teaching and Learning Centers in the Claremont Colleges Consortium as well as through national meetings of the American Chemical Society.

通过导师启用，连接，帮助，倡导，培育，干预，维持和激励（机制）项目的教师和管理人员在皮茨学院的团队正在增加学术人才的学生与证明谁获得学士学位的经济需要在化学，生物化学，或分子生物学的数量。该项目正在招募16名一年级学生，目标是通过强调利用学术资源的价值的学生发展综合计划，将他们保留在选定的STEM领域毕业。在提供更多的机会，这些专业，该项目是有助于扩大STEM劳动力，可以帮助满足区域和国家的需求。此外，为了扩大参与面，正在积极招收来自非裔美国人、拉丁美洲人、亚裔美国人/太平洋岛民和美洲原住民（ALANA）等理科学生人数不足群体的学生。（辅导和补充指导），（B）提高书面沟通技巧（c）体验其他文化（d）建立同侪网络和练习高级推理技能（霍华德休斯医学研究所暑期沉浸计划），（d）为尖端研究做出贡献，（e）参加实习。通过评估和评价产生的数据预计将支持这样一个理论，即通过培养“文化资本”（例如，与学生在整个学术生涯中的学业成功有关的性格、态度和信念），可以实现STEM领域学生的高保留率。项目评估的重点是学生的学术参与和使用的支持服务，学生的内容知识和教师的反馈。此外，该项目预计将跟踪其学生毕业后，并采访他们对该项目的持续影响。预计项目成果的传播将提供一个模式，说明如何帮助STEM学生发展文化资本，作为一种保留他们毕业的手段。 项目小组计划通过克莱蒙学院联盟的教学中心以及美国化学学会的全国会议介绍其工作。