Enhancing Undergraduate Success in Physics

提高物理学本科生的成功

• 批准号: 1458425
• 负责人: Caroline Simpson
• 金额: $ 60.91万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1458425&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Undergraduate; Success; Physics

Florida International University is an urban public university in Miami, Florida with over 53,000 students, the seventh largest university in the country. The university serves a large population of economically disadvantaged students as nearly 50% of all undergraduate students receive financial aid and nearly 60% of those recipients come from families with annual household incomes under $30,000. It is also a Hispanic-Serving Institution and awards the most baccalaureate and master's degrees to Hispanic students in the country.. The Physics Department alone has over 150 undergraduate majors and is one of the country's largest producers of Physics baccalaureate degrees awarded to Hispanic students. To ensure their timely and successful degree completion, this project will offer scholarships to undergraduate physics majors and will provide a unique opportunity to increase the success of historically underrepresented groups in physics, as well as to develop deeper understanding of practices that support these groups. The project will also impact the physics department as a whole, as recruitment activities will engage faculty teaching the introductory physics courses and the project will regularly report results to the faculty in the department. Broader dissemination of the results to the university community, as well as nationally via journal publications and conference presentations, will provide important insights into how to best support historically underrepresented groups in physics.This project will provide renewable scholarships of up to $10,000 and academic support to two cohorts of financially needy, academically talented students. The student cohorts will be integrated into an academic learning community that will provide the academic and social support necessary to foster timely undergraduate degree completion. Participants will enroll in a one credit seminar to prepare for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers and graduate school as well as receive mentoring from the project team. Complementing their academic program will be a series of other activities to further integrate them into the learning community. Recruitment into the program will be through multiple channels, including introductory physics courses at the university, physics and astronomy student groups, and direct email and web presence. Monitoring will continue throughout the project and an evaluation component will examine persistence through graduation, graduate school acceptance rates, and persistence proxies including Rovai's Sense of Community Scale.

佛罗里达国际大学是佛罗里达州迈阿密的一所城市公立大学，拥有超过53,000名学生，是美国第七大大学。这所大学服务于大量的经济困难学生，因为近50%的本科生获得了经济援助，其中近60%的受助者来自家庭年收入低于3万美元的家庭。它也是一个为西班牙裔服务的机构，授予全国最多的西班牙裔学生学士学位和硕士学位。仅物理系就有150多个本科专业，是美国向拉美裔学生颁发物理学学士学位的最大产生地之一。为了确保他们及时和成功地完成学位，该项目将向物理学专业的本科生提供奖学金，并将提供一个独特的机会，以增加历史上代表性不足的群体在物理学领域的成功，并加深对支持这些群体的实践的理解。该项目还将影响整个物理系，因为招聘活动将吸引教授入门物理课程的教职员工，该项目将定期向该系教职员工报告结果。通过期刊出版物和会议报告向大学社区以及全国更广泛地传播这些结果，将为如何最好地支持物理学中历史上代表性不足的群体提供重要的见解。该项目将提供高达10,000美元的可续期奖学金，并为两批经济困难、学术有天赋的学生提供学术支持。学生群体将被整合为一个学术学习社区，该社区将提供必要的学术和社会支持，以促进及时完成本科学位。参与者将报名参加一个学分研讨会，为科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的职业和研究生院做准备，并接受项目团队的指导。与他们的学术项目相辅相成的是一系列其他活动，以进一步将他们融入学习社区。该项目的招募将通过多种渠道进行，包括大学物理入门课程、物理和天文学学生团体，以及直接电子邮件和网络展示。监测将在整个项目中继续进行，评估部分将检查毕业后的持久性、研究生院的录取率以及包括Rovai的社区规模感在内的持久性指标。