HBCU-DCL EAGER: Unraveling Academic Success: Identifying High Impact Practices to Support Academic Persistence and Degree Completion for Underrepresented Populations in Engineering

HBCU-DCL EAGER：揭开学术成功的面纱：确定高影响力的实践，以支持工程领域代表性不足的人群的学术坚持和学位完成

• 批准号: 1649956
• 负责人: Lesia Crumpton-Young
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Tennessee State University
• 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 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649956&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HBCU; DCL; EAGER; Unraveling; Academic

Growing a talented STEM workforce is critical to ensuring America's future advancement. The creation of this desired STEM workforce is vital to virtually all of our national goals' accelerating economic prosperity, maintaining global competitiveness, securing national defense, creating clean and renewable energy sources, protecting the quality of our air, water, soil and environment, and advancing national health solutions for all citizens. This project responds to the challenge of growing a diverse talented engineering workforce by conducting research to identify the specific educational policies, practices, and programs that impact diverse students' academic persistence to degree completion within the engineering enterprise. The outlined research activities will yield results that identify high impact practices that positively influence student learning outcomes, academic persistence, and graduation rates of under-represented students in engineering majors.This research utilizes a mixed-method case study of underrepresented students currently enrolled in or alumni of the College of Engineering at a historically black college and university, located in the southeastern part of the country. Specifically, interviews utilizing open-ended questions with current and former engineering graduate students, alumni, and faculty in the College of Engineering will be implemented to accomplish the following: (a) reveal the policies, programs and practices that impact students? willingness to persist to degree completion; and, (b) identify the components of the policies, programs and practices perceived by students to be concentric to their success. Additionally, the project will include survey data collections that will help triangulate interview findings. Thus, a blueprint for designing and implementing institutional practices, procedures, and policies proven to ensure the success of diverse students in Engineering degree programs will be created.

培养一支有才华的STEM劳动力队伍对于确保美国未来的发展至关重要。创造这种理想的STEM劳动力对于我们几乎所有的国家目标都至关重要，这些目标包括加速经济繁荣，保持全球竞争力，确保国防安全，创造清洁和可再生能源，保护我们的空气，水，土壤和环境质量，并为所有公民推进国家健康解决方案。该项目通过开展研究来确定影响不同学生学术坚持的具体教育政策，实践和计划，以应对培养多样化人才的工程劳动力的挑战。概述的研究活动将产生的结果，确定高影响力的做法，积极影响学生的学习成果，学术坚持，和毕业率的代表性不足的学生在工程majors.This研究利用混合方法的案例研究，目前就读于工程学院或校友的代表性不足的学生在历史上黑人学院和大学，位于美国东南部。具体而言，利用开放式问题与当前和以前的工程研究生，校友和教师在工程学院的采访将实现以下目标：（一）揭示影响学生的政策，计划和做法？愿意坚持到学位完成;和，（B）确定的政策，计划和实践的组成部分，由学生认为是同心他们的成功。此外，该项目将包括调查数据收集，这将有助于三角访谈结果。因此，设计和实施机构的做法，程序和政策证明，以确保不同的学生在工程学位课程的成功蓝图将被创建。