Building Capacity: Integrating Research, Mentoring, and Industry Collaborations to Improve STEM Recruitment and Retention

能力建设：整合研究、指导和行业合作以改善 STEM 招聘和保留

• 批准号: 1832543
• 负责人: Robin Cotter
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: Maricopa County Community College District
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832543&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Integrating; Research; Mentoring

The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program) aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims. This project at the Phoenix College will advance the aims of the HSI Program by incorporating multi-disciplinary Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) into STEM curricula in colleges throughout the district. The program will develop CUREs for three targeted audiences. For non-science majors, it will develop a community-based CURE model designed to promote science literacy, positive attitudes toward science, and recruitment of students into STEM majors. For STEM majors, it will develop a CURE model designed to increase retention, transfer and degree completion of STEM majors. For future STEM professionals, it will develop a workforce CURE model designed to improve workforce-related skills and interest in STEM careers. The program is expected to involve more than 3000 community college students. The specific goals of this project are to 1) promote increased interest in STEM disciplines, especially among students from groups that are underrepresented in STEM; 2) increase recruitment and retention of students in introductory STEM courses; 3) increase the number of students from two-year HSIs who transfer into STEM degree programs at four-year institutions; and 4) establish cross-sector partnerships with industry to improve workforce readiness and promote interest in STEM careers among two-year HSI students. The project has constructed a comprehensive plan for developing, implementing, and assessing CUREs in introductory courses at two- and four-year institutions. The program will train and mentor community college faculty in the process of developing multidisciplinary CURE modules that address research questions relevant to university researchers, industry partners, and the local community. Identification of the unique barriers and best practices associated with the implementation of CUREs at two-year HSIs will be a useful resource for other two-year and four-year institutions, including two-year HSIs that want to increase the transfer success of students from two-year to four-year programs. Knowledge generated from this project will be shared within the Maricopa County Community College District system, and distributed to the larger educational community through local, regional, and national publications and conferences.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.

改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划（HSI计划）旨在加强本科STEM教育并建立HSI的能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。凤凰城学院的这个项目将通过将多学科课程为基础的本科生研究经验（CURES）纳入整个地区的大学STEM课程来推进HSI计划的目标。该计划将为三个目标受众开发治愈方案。对于非科学专业，它将开发一个以社区为基础的CURE模式，旨在促进科学素养，对科学的积极态度，并招募学生进入STEM专业。对于STEM专业，它将开发一个CURE模型，旨在增加STEM专业的保留，转移和学位完成。 对于未来的STEM专业人士，它将开发一个劳动力CURE模型，旨在提高劳动力相关的技能和对STEM职业的兴趣。该计划预计将涉及3000多名社区大学生。该项目的具体目标是：1）促进对STEM学科的兴趣增加，特别是来自STEM代表性不足的群体的学生; 2）增加STEM入门课程的学生的招聘和保留; 3）增加从两年制HSIs转入四年制机构STEM学位课程的学生人数;及4）与业界建立跨行业伙伴关系，以提高劳动力的准备，并促进两年制HSI学生对STEM职业的兴趣。 该项目制定了一项全面计划，用于制定、实施和评估两年制和四年制院校入门课程中的CURE。该计划将在开发多学科CURE模块的过程中培训和指导社区学院的教师，这些模块解决了与大学研究人员，行业合作伙伴和当地社区相关的研究问题。识别与两年制HSIs实施CURE相关的独特障碍和最佳实践将是其他两年制和四年制机构的有用资源，包括希望提高学生从两年制到四年制课程的转学成功率的两年制HSIs。该项目产生的知识将在马奎拉县社区学院区系统内共享，并通过当地、地区和国家出版物和会议分发给更大的教育界。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。