Life STEM-Planning Project: Streamlining the Biology Curriculum and Improving the Quality of Student Academic Preparation and Achievement

生命STEM规划项目：精简生物课程，提高学生学业准备和成绩的质量

• 批准号: 1818558
• 负责人: Radman Ali
• 金额: $ 19.88万
• 依托单位: Morris College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1818558&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Life; STEM; Planning; Project; Streamlining

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program provides support for projects to design, implement, and assess strategies that can lead to comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the number of students receiving undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and enhance the quality of their preparation by strengthening STEM education and research. This two-year planning project at Morris College seeks to eliminate the "one-size-fits-all" Biology curriculum to develop career directed pathways in effort to improve retention and 4-year graduation rates for under-represented students. In response to the call for action in the preparation of minority and under-represented students in STEM, the project objectives are to streamline the biology curriculum to 1) develop two new career tracks in Bio-Cyber Security and Biology-Forensics and 2) increase enrollment for first-generation students in the biology program, enabling them to succeed academically and professionally. This inter-divisional collaboration and local and state agency partnership is positioned to increase STEM student enrollment and student preparation for graduate school or direct entry into the STEM workforce.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科生计划为设计，实施和评估战略的项目提供支持，这些战略可以导致全面的机构努力，以增加获得科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）本科学位的学生人数，并通过加强STEM教育和研究来提高他们的准备质量。莫里斯学院的这一为期两年的规划项目旨在消除“一刀切”的生物课程，以开发职业导向的途径，努力提高代表性不足的学生的保留率和4年毕业率。为了响应在STEM少数民族和代表性不足的学生准备行动的呼吁，该项目的目标是精简生物课程，以1）开发生物网络安全和生物取证两个新的职业轨道和2）增加第一代学生在生物学课程的入学率，使他们能够在学术和专业上取得成功。这个跨部门的合作和地方和国家机构的伙伴关系定位于增加STEM学生入学率和学生准备研究生院或直接进入STEM劳动力。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。