Targeted Infusion Project: Using evidence-based programming to inform a living-learning community

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科项目（HBCU- up）通过有针对性的输液项目支持基于证据的创新模式和方法的开发、实施和研究，以提高HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们可以追求科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）研究生课程和/或职业。弗吉尼亚州立大学的这个项目旨在扩大、调整和研究一项跨学科的学术干预措施，该干预措施针对的是对STEM感兴趣的新生，目的是提高STEM专业的保留率和持久性。活动和战略是基于证据的，形成性和总结性评价的强有力计划是项目的一部分。通过干预措施的实施，将检验生态系统理论（PVEST）发展模型的现象学变量的有效性。我们将研究影响非裔美国学生学习行为的各种个人因素，以加强与成功学习成绩最相关的因素。该项目将支持1)形成成功的学习习惯，2)形成学术身份，3)通过情绪调节减轻自我障碍，以及4)扩大弗吉尼亚州立大学的品牌，将高学术成就作为大学体验的关键部分。发展模式的干预和研究结果都应该有助于开发支持新生融入其他机构STEM专业的模式。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) graduate programs and/or careers. The project at Virginia State University seeks to expand, adapt and study a cross-disciplinary academic intervention aimed at incoming freshmen that have indicated an interest in STEM with the goal of improving retention and persistence in STEM majors. The activities and strategies are evidence-based and a strong plan for formative and summative evaluation is part of the project.Through the implementation of the interventions, the Phenomenological Variable of the Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST) developmental model will be tested for validity. A variety of personal factors that influence academic behavior will be studied in African American students in order to strengthen the factors that are most associated with successful academic performance. The project will support 1) formation of successful academic habits, 2) academic identity formation, 3) mitigation of self-handicapping through emotion regulation, and 4) expanding the brand of Virginia State University to include high academic achievement as a key part of the college experience. Both the intervention and the results of the study of the developmental model should be useful in developing models that support freshman integration into STEM majors at other institutions.