A Support Ecosystem to Expand Capabilities and Opportunities for STEM Undergraduates Following Hurricane Maria

玛丽亚飓风过后，为 STEM 本科生扩展能力和机会的支持生态系统

• 批准号: 1833989
• 负责人: Monica Alfaro
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
• 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 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833989&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Ecosystem; Expand; Capabilities; Opportunities

The NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program supports the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. This S-STEM project at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez will support 26 scholars in the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences for three academic years (2018-2021), totaling 78 annual scholarships of $5,000 over the project duration. The proposal seeks to address some of the challenges facing undergraduate STEM students in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The project will enhance and provide students with (1) financial support, (2) academic support, and (3) socio-emotional support to increase retention and graduation. In addition, the project team will generate important knowledge about student resilience and persistence after a natural disaster, the importance of an ecosystem of support that includes academic and socio-emotional support systems, and the validity of the adage that financial aid alone cannot increase student success. The goals of the project are: (1) to provide academically talented low-income undergraduate STEM students with financial, academic, and socio-emotional support; (2) to adapt and implement an ecosystem of proven financial, academic, and socio-emotional support strategies and to study their effects on retention, graduation, and success; and (3) to contribute to the implementation and sustainability of effective evidence-based curricular activities for low-income STEM students. A quantitative factor analytic study will examine the contributions of the three types of support (financial, academic, socio-emotional) separately and their synergistic effects on student success, retention, and graduation. A critical outcome of the effort will be insight into the effects of natural disaster on undergraduate students' pursuit of STEM degrees and the importance of a systemic approach to facilitating student success.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）计划支持具有经济需求的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业。 这个S-STEM项目在波多黎各马亚圭斯大学将支持26名学者在工程学院和艺术与科学学院的三个学年（2018-2021），共计78 $5，000在项目持续时间的年度奖学金。该提案旨在解决本科STEM学生在飓风玛丽亚之后面临的一些挑战。 该项目将加强和为学生提供（1）财政支持，（2）学术支持，（3）社会情感支持，以提高保留和毕业。 此外，该项目团队将产生有关学生的韧性和持久性的重要知识后，自然灾害，支持的生态系统，包括学术和社会情感支持系统的重要性，以及谚语的有效性，即单靠经济援助不能提高学生的成功。 该项目的目标是：（1）为学术上有才华的低收入本科STEM学生提供财务，学术和社会情感支持;（2）适应和实施一个行之有效的财务，学术和社会情感支持战略的生态系统，并研究其对保留，毕业和成功的影响;以及（3）为低收入STEM学生实施和持续开展有效的循证课程活动做出贡献。 定量因素分析研究将分别研究三种类型的支持（财务，学术，社会情感）的贡献及其对学生成功，保留和毕业的协同效应。 这项工作的一个关键成果是深入了解自然灾害对本科生攻读STEM学位的影响，以及系统方法对促进学生成功的重要性。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。

项目成果

Championing Hispanic Student Success following Natural Disasters in Puerto Rico

波多黎各自然灾害后支持西班牙裔学生取得成功

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference exposition
• 作者: Lopez, Carla;Bellido, Carmen M.;Suarez, Oscar M.;Alfaro, Monica;Jimenez, Manuel
• 通讯作者: Jimenez, Manuel