Exploring the Impact of Cultural Wealth and Scholarships on Community College Student Success in STEM

探索文化财富和奖学金对社区学院学生 STEM 成功的影响

• 批准号: 1833435
• 负责人: Phillip Vargas
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: City Colleges of Chicago Harold Washington 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: 2018-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833435&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Exploring; Impact; Cultural; Wealth; Scholarships

The NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program will support the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Harold Washington College (HWC) in Chicago, Illinois. This project aims to award 94 scholarships over five years to 47 unique STEM students as they progress through academic requirements for an associate degree and transfer to a four-year institution for a baccalaureate degree in a STEM major. Because urban community colleges are the entry point to higher education for many low income and demographic groups that are underrepresented in STEM careers, by increasing the success and transfer rates of these students and identifying practices that most impact and promote student persistence, this project can provide a model for other community colleges. The project will take a cultural wealth approach, which focuses on how cultural capital can be nurtured to promote student success. This approach results in a shift in focus from a deficit model, which assumes students are working from a position of disadvantage, to a position that students possess unacknowledged and unrecognized cultural knowledge that enhances their learning. The project will engage students in student-driven creative exploration and project-based learning, scaffolded by formal mentoring and skills-focused instruction. This project will involve cohort building, networking, and faculty development activities. Cohort activities include a common course sequence. Networking activities include professional development, social, and community engagement events for all students and will be co-organized by the S-STEM Scholars and existing the HWC STEM Club. Faculty development will focus on the creation of a professional learning community. An extensive research study is planned to help determine how to redesign classroom activities, courses, and curricula to maximize the success of students, and the cultural wealth focus will provide insights into how community college systems can change to meet the expectations and needs of their students.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.

NSF科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）计划将支持伊利诺伊州芝加哥哈罗德华盛顿学院（HWC）表现出经济需求的高成就、低收入学生的保留和毕业。该项目旨在在五年内向47名独特的STEM学生颁发94项奖学金，帮助他们通过副学士学位的学术要求，并转入四年制机构获得STEM专业的学士学位。由于城市社区学院是许多在STEM职业中代表性不足的低收入和人口群体接受高等教育的切入点，通过提高这些学生的成功率和转学率，并确定最能影响和促进学生坚持的做法，该项目可以为其他社区学院提供一个模式。该项目将采取文化财富的方法，重点是如何培养文化资本，以促进学生的成功。这种方法的结果是重点从赤字模型，假设学生是从一个不利的位置工作，学生拥有未被承认和未被承认的文化知识，提高他们的学习的位置。该项目将让学生参与学生驱动的创造性探索和基于项目的学习，并通过正式的指导和以技能为中心的教学来支撑。该项目将涉及队列建设，网络和教师发展活动。队列活动包括一个共同的课程序列。网络活动包括所有学生的专业发展，社交和社区参与活动，并将由S-STEM学者和现有的HWC STEM俱乐部共同组织。教师发展将侧重于创建一个专业的学习社区。一项广泛的研究计划，以帮助确定如何重新设计课堂活动，课程和课程，以最大限度地提高学生的成功，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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。