Scholarships and Mentoring to Increase the Academic Success of Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

奖学金和指导以提高学生在科学、技术、工程和数学方面的学业成功

• 批准号: 1833656
• 负责人: Freddie Dixon
• 金额: $ 98.95万
• 依托单位: University of the District of Columbia
• 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: 2019-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833656&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarships; Mentoring; Increase; Academic; Success

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, this project at the University of the District of Columbia will support the success of 32 high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need. Throughout its five years, this project will fund cohorts of six students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in biology, chemistry, or engineering. This project will provide STEM students with supporting activities that have been shown to increase retention and graduation of academically strong, lower-income students. These activities include presentations by distinguished professionals in STEM fields, visits to STEM graduate programs, internships, and research experiences. Analysis of the impact of these activities will increase knowledge about how to recruit, maintain, and graduate lower-income students in STEM fields. Its relatively large population of lower-income students makes the University of the District of Columbia a good choice for this project. In addition, because of its large percentage of students who are under-represented in STEM fields, this project is likely to broaden participation in STEM.This S-STEM project aims to increase the number of STEM professionals. It concentrates on preparing lower-income, highly qualified STEM students to enter graduate school or the workforce in their STEM disciplines. The project will provide students with activities to develop academic and research skills in STEM. It plans to promote persistence by providing scholars with holistic mentoring, concentrated learning activities, and intensive research experiences. The first objective of the project is to create and maintain a strong academic pipeline of students who enroll, remain in, and graduate from the University with a STEM degree. To do so, it will use an expanded recruitment strategy that incorporates faculty, staff, and an advisory committee in the recruitment and selection process. Secondly, the project will offer enrichment activities to improve students' critical thinking, communication skills, and research capabilities. Thirdly, the project will introduce a holistic mentoring system for the students. This holistic mentoring will include dedicated efforts to provide professional expertise and career skills, advice, and insight, which has been shown to increase the successful completion of STEM degree programs. The mentoring system also will provide a smooth transition to a competitive doctoral degree program or discipline-related job. The project will apply published data that show the benefit of concentrated learning activities such as seminar and workshop attendance, weekly meetings, year-round research experiences, and internships. In addition, this project will offer adaptive programs that change with the individual student's need. It is expected that the project will increase the success of participating students in completing their STEM degree and entering into graduate school or the 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.

在国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金(S-STEM)项目的资助下，哥伦比亚特区大学的这个项目将支持32名有经济需求的优秀学生的成功。在整个五年中，这个项目将资助六名攻读生物、化学或工程学学士学位的学生。该项目将为STEM学生提供支持活动，这些活动已被证明有助于提高学业成绩优秀的低收入学生的保留率和毕业率。这些活动包括STEM领域杰出专业人士的演讲、参观STEM研究生项目、实习和研究经验。分析这些活动的影响将增加关于如何在STEM领域招收、维持和毕业低收入学生的知识。其相对较大的低收入学生人口使哥伦比亚特区大学成为这个项目的一个很好的选择。此外，由于STEM领域的学生比例较大，该项目可能会扩大STEM的参与范围。S-STEM项目旨在增加STEM专业人员的数量。它专注于为低收入、高资质的STEM学生进入研究生院或其STEM学科的劳动力做准备。该项目将为学生提供发展STEM学术和研究技能的活动。它计划通过为学者提供全面的指导、集中的学习活动和密集的研究体验来促进坚持不懈。该项目的第一个目标是建立和维持一个强大的学术渠道，这些学生注册、留在大学，并从大学毕业并获得STEM学位。为了做到这一点，它将使用扩展的招聘战略，将教职员工和咨询委员会纳入招聘和遴选过程。其次，该项目将提供丰富的活动，以提高学生的批判性思维、沟通技能和研究能力。第三，该项目将为学生引入一个全面的指导系统。这种全方位的指导将包括致力于提供专业知识和职业技能、建议和洞察力，这已被证明有助于成功完成STEM学位课程。导师制度还将提供向竞争激烈的博士学位课程或与学科相关的工作的平稳过渡。该项目将采用已公布的数据，这些数据显示了集中学习活动的好处，如参加研讨会和研讨会、每周会议、全年研究经验和实习。此外，该项目还将提供随学生个人需要而变化的适应性课程。预计该项目将增加参与的学生完成STEM学位并进入研究生院或劳动力市场的成功。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。