Training Successful Trajectories: Interventions to Increase Minority Student and Future Engineering and Other STEM Faculty Application Success Rates

培训成功轨迹：提高少数族裔学生和未来工程及其他 STEM 教师申请成功率的干预措施

• 批准号: 1740103
• 负责人: Michael Westrate
• 金额: $ 24.99万
• 依托单位: Villanova University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-15 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1740103&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Training; Successful; Trajectories; Interventions; Increase

Many communities of color remain significantly underrepresented at the doctoral level in all STEM fields; the engineering fields are particularly difficult to increase racial and ethnic representation among domestic groups. Many doctoral applicants of color, who are otherwise well-qualified in education and experience, are underserved in the area of graduate school application support, specifically in the development of self-presentation skills necessary to win a major fellowship, gain admission to graduate school, and land a quality position in their field. While underrepresented students at well-resourced universities and colleges are offered recruitment for fellowships, preparation workshops, and professional advising to develop such self-presentation skills, these services are often lacking at institutions of higher learning that do not have the human and financial resources to offer such professionalization training. Without this support, many underrepresented doctoral students are less likely to be successful in securing a fellowship and are gaining admission to complete graduate school. This grant project focuses on remedying this issue by offering underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars, who will all be future faculty, the kind of self-presentation training offered during that Boot Camp (and at well-resourced universities and colleges), and using measurable outcomes to test the efficacy of four different types of intervention.This project has immense potential broadening participation in engineering and other STEM field by studying and comparing four different interventions for underrepresented students, and the findings from the research study will provide practical insights into the most effective training of vital professional development skills. Over two years, ninety underrepresented students, along with future faculty (e.g., postdocs) and current faculty, will receive first-rate training. By assessing participant knowledge, their application numbers, and the results of their applications, the investigators will evaluate content delivery, consultation efficacy, and the effectiveness of training methods and materials. After participating in this program, the 90 trainees (e.g., LSAMP students, postdocs, and faculty) will take their training with them; this training will positively influence their professional trajectories throughout their careers. Beyond training these future leaders, the most important result of the project will be the compilation, analysis, and dissemination of the research findings to a broad audience, so that future programs across the country will have the benefit of research into which types of training content and delivery methods most successfully support URM STEM students (and current and future faculty) with applications to graduate school, fellowships, and grants.

许多有色人种社区在所有STEM领域的博士水平上仍然明显不足;工程领域特别难以增加国内群体中的种族和民族代表性。许多有色人种的博士申请人，他们在教育和经验方面都很合格，但在研究生院申请支持方面却服务不足，特别是在发展赢得主要奖学金所需的自我展示技能方面，获得研究生院的录取，并在他们的领域获得高质量的职位。虽然在资源充足的大学和学院中，为人数不足的学生提供了奖学金、准备讲习班和专业咨询，以发展这种自我介绍技能，但在没有人力和财力资源提供这种专业化培训的高等教育机构中，往往缺乏这些服务。如果没有这种支持，许多代表性不足的博士生不太可能成功获得奖学金，并获得录取完成研究生院。这个资助项目的重点是通过提供代表性不足的本科生和研究生，以及博士后学者，他们都将是未来的教师，在靴子营期间提供的自我介绍培训来解决这个问题（以及资源充足的大学和学院），并使用可测量的结果来测试四种不同类型的干预措施的有效性。该项目具有巨大的潜力，通过研究和比较针对代表性不足的学生的四种不同干预措施，研究报告将为重要专业发展技能的最有效培训提供实用见解。两年多来，90名代表性不足的学生，沿着未来的教师（例如，博士后）和目前的教师，将接受一流的培训。通过评估参与者的知识，他们的申请数量和他们的申请结果，调查人员将评估内容交付，咨询效果以及培训方法和材料的有效性。在参加该计划后，90名受训人员（例如，LSAMP学生，博士后和教师）将与他们一起接受培训;这种培训将积极影响他们在整个职业生涯中的职业轨迹。除了培训这些未来的领导者，该项目最重要的成果将是汇编，分析和传播的研究成果，以广泛的受众，使全国各地的未来计划将有研究的好处，其中类型的培训内容和交付方法最成功地支持URM STEM学生（和当前和未来的教师）与研究生院，奖学金和赠款的应用。