Hornet Science Scholars Program

大黄蜂科学学者计划

• 批准号: 1644273
• 负责人: Jennifer Lundmark
• 金额: $ 96万
• 依托单位: University Enterprises, Incorporated
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1644273&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Hornet; Science; Scholars; Program

Students who transfer from a community college to a four-year university in pursuit of a Bachelor's degree often face difficulty in the first year. This difficulty may be academic (adjusting to different expectations in the classroom) as well as social (finding friends and study partners, accessing resources, and feeling a sense of belonging within a larger campus environment). The combination of academic and social challenges is known as "transfer shock," and this is even more apparent when students face other barriers to success. This includes students who are the first in their family to attend college, or come from a low-income background. The Hornet Science Scholars program will ease the transition of high-achieving, low-income new transfer students by providing scholarships as well as the academic and social support needed to overcome transfer shock in the first year. Scholarship recipients will participate in four innovative pilot programs designed to promote the success of transfer students. The first is a "Transfer Ready Initiative" to improve advising and communication practices between local community colleges and Sacramento State, resulting in enhanced transfer preparation for all students, and assisting incoming students in knowing what to expect at the four-year university. The second pilot involves group scheduling of incoming Hornet Science Scholars within majors courses, so that they are clustered with students they know, who are also adjusting to the new environment. This practice will allow well-prepared Scholars to "fast track" through their remaining major requirements, speeding time to graduation. The third innovation puts into place proven academic support strategies (such as peer mentoring, peer-led team learning, and focused practice with study skills) to ensure immediate success in upper level courses and allow positive progression towards graduation. Such peer-facilitated programs encourage positive relationships between new transfers and continuing students. Finally, the fourth pilot features engagement with faculty mentors to prepare Scholars for immediate entry into science-related summer employment and research opportunities. This will include partnerships with the California Internship Network, which is based on the Sacramento State campus. The Hornet Science Scholars project will explore six research questions that will investigate how an integrated set of evidence-based strategies, along with creative curricular structures and connection to science-related summer engagement, will transform the success of low-income, high-achieving science transfer students. This project will advance knowledge of academic and support interventions that might ease "transfer shock," and will provide a more accurate understanding about the types of support essential to increasing retention and graduation rates of science students. Formative and summative evaluation will provide information on mid-course corrections to the leadership team. Sacramento State shares student demographics with the majority of the 23 campuses that make up the California State University system, and has a ready audience with whom to share outcomes and successes.

从社区学院转移到四年制大学的学生通常在第一年会面临困难。 这个困难可能是学术性的（适应教室中不同的期望）以及社交（寻找朋友和学习伙伴，获得资源，并在更大的校园环境中感到归属感）。 学术挑战和社会挑战的结合被称为“转移冲击”，当学生面临其他成功障碍时，这更加明显。 这包括家庭中第一个上大学的学生，或者来自低收入背景。 大黄蜂科学学者计划将通过提供奖学金以及在第一年克服转会冲击所需的学术和社会支持，从而缓解高分，低收入新的转学学生的过渡。奖学金获得者将参加四个旨在促进转学学生成功的创新试点计划。第一个是一项“转移准备的计划”，以改善当地社区大学和萨克拉曼多州之间的建议和沟通实践，从而增强了所有学生的转学准备，并协助新生的学生知道对四年制大学的期望。第二个飞行员涉及在专业课程中安排新来的大黄蜂科学学者的小组安排，以便他们与认识的学生聚集在一起，他们也适应了新的环境。这种做法将使精心准备的学者通过其剩余的主要要求“快速轨道”，加快毕业时间。第三次创新构成了可靠的学术支持策略（例如同伴指导，领导的团队学习以及学习技能的专注实践），以确保在上层课程中立即取得成功，并允许毕业的积极进步。这种相关的计划鼓励新的转学与继续学生之间的积极关系。最后，第四个飞行员与教师导师交战，以准备学者立即进入与科学相关的夏季就业和研究机会。这将包括基于萨克拉曼多州立校园的加利福尼亚实习网络的合作伙伴关系。 黄蜂科学学者项目将探讨六个研究问题，这些问题将研究一组综合的基于证据的策略以及与科学相关的夏季参与的创造性课程结构以及与科学相关的夏季参与的联系，将改变低收入，高位的科学转移学生的成功。该项目将促进了解可能会减轻“转移冲击”的学术和支持干预措施的知识，并将对增加科学专业学生的保留率和毕业率所必需的支持类型提供更准确的了解。形成性和总结性评估将为领导团队提供有关中途校正的信息。萨克拉曼多州立大学与构成加利福尼亚州立大学系统的23个校园中的大多数分享了学生人口统计，并有一个准备好的受众可以与之分享成果和成功。