The Virginia Tech Network for Engineering Transfer Students (VT-NETS)

弗吉尼亚理工大学工程转学生网络 (VT-NETS)

• 批准号: 1644138
• 负责人: Bevlee Watford
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1644138&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Virginia; Tech; Network; Engineering; Transfer

The Virginia Tech Network for Engineering Transfer Students (VT-NETS) is a collaborative effort between Virginia Tech, Virginia Western Community College, and Northern Virginia Community College. This S-STEM project will establish stronger networks between Virginia Tech and the Virginia Community College System to increase the success of engineering transfer students following the community college-to-bachelor's degree pathway. The total number of scholarships awarded across all three institutions is 336 over five years. Community colleges are cost-effective gateways to four-year universities for academically talented, low-income students. The creation of a strong partnership, including early and frequent interaction between the student and the four-year institution, will enhance the potential for successful student transfer and timely completion of a baccalaureate degree. VT-NETS creates this partnership and serves as a research-based model for future collaboration between community colleges and four-year institutions.The goal of this project is to design, implement, and empirically test curricular and co-curricular activities that support the transfer of students following the community college-to-bachelor's degree pathway to an engineering degree. Aligned with the mission of the NSF S-STEM program, the research team will use an embedded case study approach organized around the transfer student capital framework to advance understanding of how various factors affect the success, retention, transfer, and graduation in engineering for low-income students. The results of this project will help educators develop new interventions and fine-tune current efforts (e.g., making them more sustainable, efficient, and effective) to add value to existing strategies. Such integration with current student support practices will more broadly increase the success of transfer students in engineering nationwide. VT-NETS will illuminate and prioritize the human, financial, and physical resources dedicated towards these efforts and will enhance the infrastructure at the partner institutions for supporting all transfer students in engineering.

弗吉尼亚理工大学工程转校生网络（VT-NETS）是弗吉尼亚理工大学、弗吉尼亚西部社区学院和北弗吉尼亚社区学院之间的合作项目。这个S-STEM项目将在弗吉尼亚理工大学和弗吉尼亚社区学院系统之间建立更强大的网络，以提高从社区学院到学士学位的工程转校生的成功率。这三所大学在五年内颁发的奖学金总数为336个。对于有学术天赋的低收入家庭学生来说，社区大学是进入四年制大学的经济有效途径。建立强有力的伙伴关系，包括学生和四年制大学之间早期和频繁的互动，将提高学生成功转学和及时完成学士学位的可能性。VT-NETS建立了这种伙伴关系，并为社区学院和四年制大学之间的未来合作提供了一个以研究为基础的模式。该项目的目标是设计、实施和实证测试课程和课外活动，以支持学生从社区大学到学士学位的途径转到工程学位。与NSF S-STEM项目的使命一致，研究团队将使用围绕转校生资本框架组织的嵌入式案例研究方法，以加深对各种因素如何影响低收入学生在工程专业的成功、保留、转学和毕业的理解。该项目的结果将帮助教育工作者开发新的干预措施，并调整当前的努力（例如，使其更可持续、更高效、更有效），以增加现有战略的价值。这种与当前学生支持实践的整合将更广泛地增加全国工程专业转学生的成功。VT-NETS将阐明并优先考虑用于这些努力的人力，财政和物质资源，并将加强合作机构的基础设施，以支持所有工程转学生。