Implementation Project: University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) STEM Academy

传统黑人学院和大学的实施项目-本科项目为设计，实施，研究和评估全面的机构努力提供支持，通过加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究来增加学生人数和他们的准备质量。阿肯色大学派恩布拉夫分校（UAPB）的这一实施项目旨在建立一个在招聘、留住和毕业STEM专业非裔美国本科生方面已被证明成功的模式，并将重点放在退伍军人和西班牙裔STEM学生身上。关键活动基于现有的UAPB STEM学院模式，并将研究和传播新的循证干预措施。该项目由正在进行的评估指导和通知。该项目的具体目标是：提高代表性不足的少数民族学生的入学率、保留率和毕业率，包括STEM学科的退伍军人；增加STEM资深学者的数量；增加通过微积分I和II的STEM学生人数；增加STEM学者参与实习的人数；增加UAPB STEM教师参与研究和指导STEM学者的人数；增加STEM毕业生进入研究生院并获得NSF、其他政府机构和私人基金会的研究生奖学金的人数。该项目将通过协作学习和研究，丰富数学课程和教学方法，以及以暑期实习为补充的校园研究指导，为学生的积极参与提供支持。该项目将评估关键组成部分，同时实施必要的干预措施和修改，使STEM学者为劳动力和研究生院做好准备。这个项目可以作为一个模型，为资深的STEM学生提供支持，并有目的地在一所历史悠久的黑人大学招募和支持西班牙裔STEM学生。

Implementation Projects in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate program provide support to design, implement, study and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This implementation project at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) seeks to build on a model that has proven successful in recruiting, retaining and graduating African-American undergraduates in STEM, to include a focus on veteran and Hispanic STEM students. Key activities are based on the existing UAPB STEM Academy Model with new evidence-based interventions to be researched and disseminated. The project is guided and informed by an on-going evaluation.Specific objectives of the project are to: increase the enrollment, retention, and graduation rate of underrepresented minority students, including veterans in STEM disciplines; increase the number of veteran STEM scholars; increase the number of STEM students who pass Calculus I and II; increase the number of STEM scholars participating in internships; increase the number of UAPB STEM faculty participating in research and mentoring STEM scholars; and increase the number of STEM graduates who enter graduate school and receive graduate fellowships from NSF, other governmental agencies, and private foundations. The program will create support for strong student engagement through collaborative learning and research, enrichment of the mathematics curriculum and pedagogy, and campus research mentorship supplemented by summer internships. The project will assess the key components, while implementing interventions and modifications necessary to prepare the STEM scholars for the workforce and graduate school. This project can serve as a model for providing support to veteran STEM students and for purposefully recruiting and supporting Hispanic STEM students at a Historically Black University.