NSF INCLUDES: Enhancing the New Mexico STEM Pipeline - Design and Development Launch Pilot

该项目将协调和集中现有的教育要素，共同目标是增加未被充分代表的少数群体参与STEM学位课程和STEM劳动力。这一目标将有助于美国保持其在科学和工程创新方面的领先地位，同时支持扩大所需的人才库，以推动技术领域的经济增长。该方案将建立一个评估系统，处理社会影响因素和STEM技能转让问题，目的是查明代表人数不足的少数群体离开STEM渠道的原因。通过将从中学到大学的STEM课程和课外元素纳入其中，该项目将能够对评估部分的结果做出快速反应，并采取积极措施留住STEM学生，并保持他们作为未来科学家或工程师的自我认知。该方案建议评估、联合和协调新墨西哥州STEM管道中的要素，最终目标是增加STEM劳动力中代表性不足的群体的参与。在整个新墨西哥州，公共和私营部门都认识到需要培养一支多样化的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力队伍。该项目开发了一个贯穿各领域的评估系统，既涉及社会影响因素，也涉及STEM教育的技能部分。该项目制定了一个集体影响框架，旨在增加在STEM劳动力中任职人数不足的少数群体的参与，并在6-20+STEM项目中为学生实施共同评估制度。这一评估系统将处理社会影响因素和STEM相关技能的转让，目的是建立一个研究基地，调查来自代表性不足的少数族裔的学生为何离开STEM渠道。这项研究的成果将推动制定一套增加留校率的最佳做法和一项改善少数族裔学生融入STEM社区的计划。作为该方案的一部分制定的保留模式将通过一系列讲习班与STEM合作伙伴分享，目的是制定一种更协调的办法来保留代表不足的少数群体。该计划侧重于与工程学院有现有联系的一小部分STEM项目。

This project will coordinate and focus existing educational elements with the common goal of increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM degree programs and the STEM workforce. This goal will help the US maintain its leadership in science and engineering innovation while supporting the expansion of the talent pool needed to fuel economic growth in technical areas. The program will feature an assessment system that addresses both social influence factors and the transfer of STEM skills with the aim of identifying the reasons that underrepresented minorities leave the STEM pipeline. By including both curricular and extracurricular elements of the STEM pipeline, ranging from middle school through college, the program will be able to respond quickly to findings from the assessment component and take proactive steps to retain STEM students and maintain their self perception as future scientists or engineers. The program proposes to assess, unite and coordinate elements in the New Mexico STEM pipeline with the ultimate goal of increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in the STEM workforce. The need to grow a diverse science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce is recognized throughout the State of New Mexico, and beyond, by both the public and private sectors. The project develops a crosscutting assessment system that addresses both social influence factors and the skills component of STEM education. The project develops a collective impact framework aimed at increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in the STEM workforce and implements a common assessment system for students in the 6-20+ STEM pipeline. This assessment system will address both social influence factors and the transfer of STEM related skills with the aim of building a research base to investigate why students from underrepresented minorities leave the STEM pipeline. The output from this research will drive the development of a set of best practices for increasing retention and a scheme for improving the integration of minority students into the STEM community. The retention model developed as part of the program will be shared with the STEM partners through a series of workshops with the goal of developing a more coordinated approach to the retention of underrepresented minorities. The program focuses on a small set of STEM programs with existing connections to the College of Engineering.