NSF INCLUDES: Increasing Degrees Awarded to African American, Hispanic, Native American and Women Students in Engineering (50K Coalition)

NSF 包括： 增加向非裔美国人、西班牙裔、美洲原住民和女学生授予工程学位（50K 联盟）

• 批准号: 1649355
• 负责人: Rochelle Williams
• 金额: $ 29.45万
• 依托单位: National Society of Black Engineers
• 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: 2016-10-01 至 2021-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649355&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Increasing; Degrees; Awarded

Jobs are growing most rapidly in areas that require STEM knowledge, causing business leaders to seek skilled American workers now and in the near future. Increase in the number of students pursuing engineering degrees is taking place but the percentages of underrepresented students in the engineering pipeline remains low. To address the challenge of increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in engineering, the National Society of Black Engineers, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, and the Society of Women Engineers have formed the 50K Coalition, a collaborative of over 40 organizations committed to increasing the number of bachelors degrees awarded to women and minorities from 30,000 annually to 50,000 by 2025, a 66% increase. The 50K Coalition is using the Collective Impact framework to develop an evidence-based approach that drives management decision-making, improvements, sharing of information, and collective action to achieve success. The first convening of the 50K Coalition in April, 2016, brought together 83 leaders of the engineering community representing 13 professional societies with over 700,000 members, deans of engineering, minority engineering and women in engineering administrators from 11 leading colleges of engineering, and corporate partners representing six global industries. Consensus was reached on the following Common Agenda items: 1.) Undergraduate support and retention; 2.) Public awareness and marketing; 3.) K-12 support; 4.) Community College linkages; 5.) Culture and climate. The Coalition will encourage member organizations to develop new programs and scale existing programs to reach the goal.The Coalition will use shared metrics to track progress: AP® Calculus completion and high school graduation rates; undergraduate freshmen retention rates; community college transfer rates and number of engineering degrees awarded. The 50K Coalition will develop the other elements of the Collective Impact framework: Infrastructure and effective decision-making processes that will become the backbone organization with a focus on data management, communications and dissemination; a system of continuous communication including Basecamp, website, the annual Engineering Scorecard, WebEx hosted meetings and convenings; and mutually reinforcing activities such as programs, courses, seminars, webinars, workshops, promotional campaigns, policy initiatives, and institutional capacity building efforts. The National Academy of Sciences study, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads recommended that professional associations make recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups an organizational goal and implement programs designed to reach that goal by working with their membership, academic institutions and funding agencies on new initiatives. While these types of organizations work together now in a variety of ways, the relationships are one-on-one. The 50K Coalition brings together, for the first time professional societies, engineering schools, and industry to consider what mutually reinforcing activities can most effectively encourage students from underrepresented groups to complete calculus and graduate from 4-year engineering programs.

在需要STEM知识的领域，工作的增长最快，导致业务领导者现在和不久的将来寻求熟练的美国工人。攻读工程学位的学生人数正在增加，但是工程管道中代表性不足的学生的百分比仍然很低。应对增加代表性不足的团体参与工程，国家黑人工程师学会，美国印度科学和工程学会，西班牙裔专业工程师协会和女性工程师协会的挑战，已经组成了50k联盟，这是一个由40多个组织组成的合作，致力于增加30,000，000年30，000年30,000份人的40多个组织，并获得了30,000年的成长。 50k联盟正在使用集体影响框架开发一种基于证据的方法，该方法推动了管理决策，改进，信息共享和集体行动以取得成功。 2016年4月，该50K联盟的首次召集汇集了83名工程社区领导人，代表13个专业社会，拥有70万名成员，工程院长，工程院长，少数族裔工程和妇女的工程管理人员，来自11个领先的工程学院，以及代表6个全球行业的企业合作伙伴。就以下共同议程项目达成了共识：1。）本科支持和保留； 2.）公众意识和营销； 3.）K-12支持； 4.）社区大学联系； 5.）文化和气候。联盟将鼓励成员组织制定新的计划并扩展现有计划以达到目标。联盟将使用共享指标来跟踪进度：AP®微积分完成和高中毕业率；本科新生保留率；社区大学转移率和授予工程学位的数量。 50K联盟将发展集体影响框架的其他要素：基础设施和有效的决策过程，这些过程将成为骨干组织，重点是数据管理，通信和传播；一个连续沟通的系统，包括BaseCamp，网站，年度工程记分卡，Webex主持会议和召集；以及相互加强的活动，例如课程，课程，网络研讨会，研讨会，促销活动，政策计划和机构能力建设努力。美国国家科学院研究，扩大了代表性不足的少数群体参与：美国十字路口的科学和技术人才建议专业协会使招聘和保留代表性不足的团体成为组织目标和实施计划，旨在通过与其成员，学术机构，学术机构和新启动机构合作来实现该目标的计划。尽管这些类型的组织现在以多种方式共同努力，但关系是一对一的。 50K联盟首次将专业协会，工程学校和行业汇集在一起​​，以考虑哪些相互加强的活动可以最有效地鼓励来自代表性不足的团体的学生完成计算，并从4年工程课程中毕业。