Mentoring, Research, Leadership, and Community to Increase Undergraduate Retention and Graduation in STEM

通过指导、研究、领导力和社区来提高 STEM 本科生的保留率和毕业率

• 批准号: 1833789
• 负责人: Edwin Li
• 金额: $ 98.2万
• 依托单位: St Joseph's University
• 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=1833789&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mentoring; Research; Leadership; Community; Increase

Mentoring, Research, Leadership, and Community to Increase Graduation in STEMWith funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, this project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Saint Joseph's University. Throughout its five years of funding, this project will provide four-year scholarships to two cohorts of eight students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, or physics. The project will provide a suite of student support and engagement activities, including long-term research opportunities, structured faculty and peer mentoring, leadership skill development, and career advising. These activities are designed to increase recruitment, retention, and successful graduation in STEM fields of study. Through academic and social nurturing, this project aims to produce cohorts of graduates who can become intellectual leaders and role models in their respective disciplines and in the community.The project will provide the following support components: aggressive recruitment and outreach to high schools with a high proportion of the targeted student population, intensive faculty mentoring, peer mentoring, undergraduate research and internship opportunities, leadership and community service programs, cohort building activities, and career development. The project will investigate variation in the effectiveness of mentoring interventions on retention and graduation rates of academically talented, low income students, with particular attention of the processes of faculty/student interaction. They will investigate what factors influence the effectiveness of these interactions. In assessing impacts of social interaction on identity, this research will generate insights that can be useful to similar programs for low-income students at similar institutions. Saint Joseph's University will develop recommendations based on their results and disseminate the recommendations to other programs seeking to increase the retention, interest, and career trajectory of STEM students from low-income backgrounds.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.

指导，研究，领导和社区，以增加STEM毕业从国家科学基金会的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）计划的资金，该项目将支持高成就，低收入的学生在圣约瑟夫大学证明经济需要。在其五年的资助，该项目将提供为期四年的奖学金，以两批八名学生谁是追求学士学位的生物，化学，计算机科学，数学或物理。 该项目将提供一套学生支持和参与活动，包括长期研究机会，结构化的教师和同行指导，领导技能发展和职业咨询。这些活动旨在增加STEM研究领域的招聘，保留和成功毕业。 透过学术及社会培育，本计划旨在培育一批毕业生，使他们能成为所属学科及社会的知识领袖及模范。本计划将提供以下支援：积极招聘和推广到高中，目标学生人口的比例很高，密集的教师指导，同伴指导，本科研究和实习机会，领导力和社区服务计划，队列建设活动和职业发展。该项目将调查辅导干预措施的有效性的变化对学术人才，低收入学生的保留和毕业率，特别注意教师/学生互动的过程。他们将研究哪些因素影响这些互动的有效性。在评估社会互动对身份的影响，这项研究将产生的见解，可以是有用的类似的低收入家庭的学生在类似机构的类似计划。圣约瑟夫大学将根据他们的研究结果提出建议，并将这些建议传播给其他旨在提高低收入背景的STEM学生的保留率、兴趣和职业轨迹的项目。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为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来支持。