Collaborative Research: NSF INCLUDES: South East Alliance for Persons with Disabilities in STEM (SEAPD-STEM)

奥本大学、阿拉巴马州立大学、塔斯基吉大学和范德比尔特大学将领导这项设计和开发启动试点，以组建STEM中的东南残疾人联盟(SEAPD-STEM)，最终在美国东南部和华盛顿特区创建一个由21所大学和学院以及更多社区学院和高中组成的网络。这个项目是为了响应全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习社区(NSF Includes)计划征集(NSF 16-544)而创建的。INCLUDE计划是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在加强美国在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)发现和创新方面的领导地位，重点是NSF对这些领域的多样性、包容性和扩大参与的承诺。Include Design and Development Launch Pilot代表了解决STEM不断扩大的参与度挑战的大胆、创新的方法。美国所有STEM人才的充分参与对于推动科学和工程为国家安全、健康和繁荣服务至关重要。我国正在推进知识和实践，以解决STEM教育实践，以便在我国的高中、学院和大学招收、更好地教育、留住STEM中学和中学后残疾学生(SWD)并使其毕业。然而，在中学和中学后的STEM中，SWD历来表现不佳。这个项目，NSF包括：SEAPD-STEM，有可能显著推进一组组织的合作方法，以提高STEM学科中SWD的成功。该项目建立在现有的阿拉巴马州STEM残疾学生联盟(AASD-STEM)的基础上，这是NSF资助的模式，并包括一个更大的区域联盟，专注于从高中到博士后培训和进入教职的学术道路上的STEM SWD培训。合作涉及五个目标：(1)提高完成STEM学科的副学士和研究生学位并进入STEM工作队伍的SWD的质量和数量；(2)提高STEM领域的博士后研究员和初级残疾教师的质量和数量；(3)提高残疾学生在中学水平的科学和数学课程的学习成绩；(4)加强高等教育机构之间在STEM学科的SWD教育方面的交流和合作，以及(5)评估项目活动，以了解哪些活动有助于支持科学方面的STEM短暂性疾病的入学和保留，然后通过研讨会、会议报告、网络研讨会和同行评议的出版物广泛传播。该小组在试点中提出了以下项目活动：(1)在13个伙伴机构实施桥梁模式，其中包括阿拉巴马州立大学、奥本大学、奥本大学、蒙哥马利大学、加洛德大学、杰克逊州立大学、田纳西中部州立大学、南方联盟州立大学、特洛伊大学、塔斯基吉大学、阿拉巴马大学伯明翰大学、田纳西大学、西乔治亚大学和路易斯安那泽维尔大学(2)实施SEAP-STEM培训讲习班，(3)实施国家战略计划包括在每个参与州举办联盟规划讲习班，如肯纳索州立大学、图加鲁学院、亨斯特维尔的阿拉巴马大学、范德比尔特大学和路易斯安那的泽维尔大学。(4)按种族、民族和性别收集21所学院和大学的STEM SWD的招生、保留和毕业基线数据，(5)确定每个参与机构的高中和学区以开展外展活动，(6)增加至少一所社区学院与SEAPD-STEM学院或大学合作，(7)吸引更多的合作伙伴，包括国家和地方实验室、非营利组织、联邦机构、行业、基金会和州政府，为参与SEAPD-STEM的学生提供额外的资金和/或实习机会。项目小组将执行一项计划，以扩大方法和发展机构联盟，以最大限度地提高现在和未来的潜在项目成果。

Auburn University, Alabama State University, Tuskegee University and Vanderbilt University will lead this Design and Development Launch Pilot to form the SouthEast Alliance for Persons with Disabilities in STEM (SEAPD-STEM), eventually creating a network of 21 universities and colleges, as well as additional community colleges and high schools, in the southeastern U.S. and Washington, DC. This project was created in response to the Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) program solicitation (NSF 16-544). The INCLUDES program is a comprehensive national initiative designed to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) discoveries and innovations focused on NSF's commitment to diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation in these fields. The INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots represent bold, innovative ways for solving a broadening participation challenge in STEM. The full participation of all of America's STEM talent is critical to the advancement of science and engineering for national security, health and prosperity. Our nation is advancing knowledge and practices to address the STEM education practices for recruiting, better educating, retaining and graduating STEM secondary and postsecondary students with disabilities (SWDs) at our nation's high schools, colleges and universities. However SWDs historically underperform in STEM at the secondary and postsecondary levels. This project, NSF INCLUDES: SEAPD-STEM, has the potential to significantly advance a collaborative approach by a group of organizations to improve the success of SWDs in STEM disciplines.The project builds on the existing Alabama Alliance for Students with Disabilities in STEM (AASD-STEM), a NSF-funded model, and includes a plan to form a larger regional alliance focused on training STEM SWDs across the academic pathway from high school through postdoctoral training and entry into faculty positions. The collaboration addresses five goals: (1) To increase the quality and quantity of SWDs completing associate, undergraduate, and graduate degrees in STEM disciplines and entering the STEM workforce, (2) To increase the quality and quantity of post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty with disabilities in STEM fields, (3) To improve academic performance of students with disabilities in secondary level science and mathematics courses, (4) To enhance communication and collaboration among post-secondary institutions in addressing the education of SWDs in STEM disciplines, and (5) To assess project activities to understand what works to support the matriculation and retention of STEM SWDs in science followed by broad dissemination through workshops, conference presentations, webinars, and peer-reviewed publications. The team proposes the following project activities in the pilot: (1) Implementing a Bridge Model at 13 partner institutions, including Alabama State University, Auburn University, Auburn University Montgomery, Gallaudet University, Jackson State University, Middle Tennessee State University, Southern Union State Community College, Troy University, Tuskegee University, the University of Alabama Birmingham, the University of Tennessee, the University of West Georgia and Xavier University of Louisiana (2) Implementing SEAPD-STEM training workshops, (3) Implementing NSF INCLUDES Alliances planning workshops in each participating state, at Kennesaw State University, Tougaloo College, the University of Alabama in Hunstville, Vanderbilt University and Xavier University of Louisiana, (4) Gathering enrollment, retention, and graduation baseline data for STEM SWDs by race, ethnicity, and gender at 21 colleges and universities institutions, (5) Identifying high schools and school districts for each of the participating institutions for outreach activities, (6) Adding at least one community college to partner with SEAPD-STEM college or university, (7) Engaging additional partners including national and local labs, non-profits, federal agencies, industry, foundations, and state governments for additional funding and/or internships for participating SEAPD-STEM students. The project team will implement a plan to scale approaches and develop an alliance of institutions to maximize potential project outcomes now and in the future.