NSF INCLUDES: Building upon CAHSI's Success to Establish a Networked Community for Broadening Participation of Hispanics in Graduate Studies

由公共和私营部门的机构和组织组成的伙伴关系将在美国拥有大量拉美裔人口的地区形成一个网络社区，共同适应和采用经过验证的做法，并将它们应用于两年制学院和授予学士学位、硕士和博士学位的大学的高等教育系统。这一合作伙伴关系建立在NSF资助的成功的西班牙裔服务机构计算联盟(CAHSI)的基础上，该联盟已成为全国各地计算机研究生学习、行业和教授的重要招聘渠道。尽管拉美裔人口占全国人口的17%，但在2012-2013年间，全国范围内授予拉美裔硕士学位和博士学位的比例仅为4%和3%。达到平等的迫切需要是显而易见的。这项努力的共同目标和大胆愿景是，在完成基于计算的研究生学习的拉美裔人数方面实现平等。重点将放在西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)的有才华的学生群体上，他们出于各种原因，不选择继续STEM的教育和职业道路。这些努力将侧重于将拉美裔学生从副学士学位课程过渡到学士学位课程，从学士学位课程(无论他们从哪里开始学习)过渡到完成研究生学位。该项目将建立一个共同议程，指导集体影响的愿景和战略，进行数据收集以纵向跟踪学生在校园内的流动，并启动一项多地点试点，以测试全面改革计划和过程的可行性。虽然先前的研究已经确定了提高代表不足的少数民族的研究生课程完成率的策略，但很少有人关注HSI在减少自然减员方面的作用。对HSI的关注是开发STEM职业生涯成功途径的关键因素。网络社区将让不同地区的社会科学家参与关于拉美裔研究生项目完成情况的研究，以补充现有的关于本科生完成情况的研究。开发一个全面的、可扩展的学生跨机构发展模式，特别是将双语和双文化学生群体与独特的需求相结合，是扩大STEM渠道的关键。通过试点，该项目将邀请为期两年的学院和大学开始初步调查建立强大的学生身份、学生归属感、倡导和准备对加快学生进入该专业的数量，以及考虑、进入并最终完成计算领域的研究生学习的影响。

A partnership of institutions and organizations from public and private sectors, all with an established record in advancing Hispanics in higher education, will form a networked community across regions of the United States with significant Hispanic populations to collectively adapt and adopt proven practices and apply them throughout the higher education system of two-year colleges and baccalaureate-, master's-, and doctorate-granting universities. The partnership builds on the successful NSF-funded Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) that has emerged as a significant pipeline of new recruits into computing graduate studies, industry, and the professoriate throughout the nation. Even through the Hispanic population has reached 17% nationally, a mere 4% STEM Master's and 3% STEM doctorate degrees are awarded nationwide to Hispanics in 2012-2013. The desperate need to reach parity is clear. The shared purpose and bold vision of the effort is to achieve parity in the number of Hispanics who complete computation-based graduate studies. The focus will be on targeting the pool of talented students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) who, for various reasons, do not choose to continue on STEM educational and career pathways. The efforts will focus on transitioning Hispanic students from associate degree programs to baccalaureate programs, and from baccalaureate programs (regardless of where they began their studies) to completion of graduate degrees.The project will establish a common agenda that guides the vision and strategy for collective impact, conduct data collection to longitudinally track student movement across campuses, and launch a multi-site pilot to test feasibility of the full-scale plan and process for change. While prior research has identified strategies for increasing graduate program completion rates for underrepresented minorities, little attention has been paid to the role of HSIs in reducing attrition. Attention to HSIs is a critical element in developing successful pathways to STEM careers. The networked community will involve social scientists across the different regions in research on Hispanic graduate program completion, to complement existing research on undergraduate completion. Developing a comprehensive, scalable model for cross-institutional advancement of students, in particular the combination of a bilingual and bicultural student body with unique needs, is critical to grow the STEM pipeline. Through a pilot, the project will engage two-year colleges and universities to begin the initial investigation on the impact of building strong student identity, student belonging, advocacy, and preparation on accelerating the number of students entering, persisting in the major, and considering, entering, and ultimately completing graduate studies in computational areas.