Guiding Underrepresented Students to Opportunities in STEM

引导代表性不足的学生获得 STEM 领域的机会

• 批准号: 1902518
• 负责人: Eric Hagedorn
• 金额: $ 28.95万
• 依托单位: Milwaukee Area Technical College
• 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: 2019-06-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1902518&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Guiding; Underrepresented; Students; Opportunities; STEM

The Guiding Underrepresented Students to Opportunities in STEM (GUSTO-STEM) project will recruit, retain, and graduate students from the college's Chemical Technician Program to meet the needs of the local industry. Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) has well equipped facilities and is well connected to local industry, but historically has not prepared sufficient graduates to meet local workforce needs. To recruit more students, the project will work with advisors in the Milwaukee Public Schools and employ a traveling public outreach team to interact directly with prospective students. To improve retention, the project will host a two-week summer bridge/boot camp to help students transition to college. An advisor will be assigned to assist the Chem Tech faculty in purposefully building the new Chem Tech students into a cohort by grouping the new students together in core classes and allowing them to socially interact in a dedicated meeting space. To increase graduation rates, the project will adapt and apply guided pathways to the Chem Tech program that help students complete degrees in a timely fashion. By supporting these students through this rigorous two-year program, the project will offer them the opportunity to make on average, $50,000 per year, with full benefits, while providing them with opportunities to advanced degrees if they return for further study. A broader impact of this project will be to dramatically enhance the economic mobility of students, who typically come from low-income families.The strategies to be used to increase the number of Chem Tech graduates fall into two categories: enhanced recruiting and improved retention. Recruiting efforts will include collaborations with Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) at nine STEM-focused high schools with whom MATC already has a working relationship. MATC recruiters will work with MPS guidance counselors to steer future students towards the Chem Tech program. The project leaders from MATC will facilitate engaging "STEM Circus" events as public outreach that promotes the Chem Tech program. Cohort building will be encouraged and supported as a retention strategy through a pre-first semester transitional boot camp, small group tutoring sessions, coaching, mentoring, and socializing during formal and informal programming events at MATC and at several industrial partner sites. Having a dedicated learning spaces on campus dedicated to Chem Tech students and the opportunity to share science with the community through the STEM Circuses will promote a learning community that feels connected to the program and the college. In addition to providing Chem Tech students with industry lab field trips, industrial partners have committed to providing these students with critical soft-skills training: developing professionalism, resume writing, interview preparation, and holding mock interviews. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.

引导代表性不足的学生在干（GUSTO-STEM）项目的机会将招募，保留，并从学院的化学技术员计划毕业的学生，以满足当地行业的需求。密尔沃基地区技术学院（MATC）拥有设备齐全的设施，并与当地工业有着良好的联系，但历史上没有准备足够的毕业生来满足当地的劳动力需求。为了招收更多的学生，该项目将与密尔沃基公立学校的顾问合作，并聘请一个旅行公共外展团队直接与未来的学生互动。为了提高保留率，该项目将举办为期两周的夏桥/靴子营，以帮助学生过渡到大学。一名顾问将被指派协助化学技术学院有目的地建立新的化学技术学生到一个队列通过分组的新学生在核心类在一起，并允许他们在一个专门的会议空间进行社交互动。为了提高毕业率，该项目将调整和应用引导途径的化学技术计划，帮助学生及时完成学位。通过支持这些学生通过这个严格的两年计划，该项目将为他们提供机会，使平均每年50，000美元，充分的好处，同时为他们提供机会，以高级学位，如果他们返回进一步研究。该项目的更广泛影响将是显著提高学生的经济流动性，这些学生通常来自低收入家庭。增加化学技术毕业生数量的策略分为两类：加强招聘和提高保留率。招聘工作将包括与密尔沃基公立学校（MPS）在九所以STEM为重点的高中合作，MATC已经与这些高中建立了工作关系。MATC招聘人员将与MPS指导顾问合作，引导未来的学生进入化学技术课程。来自MATC的项目负责人将促进参与“STEM马戏团”活动，作为促进化学技术计划的公共宣传。将鼓励和支持队列建设作为保留策略，通过第一学期前的过渡靴子训练营，小组辅导课程，辅导，指导和社交在正式和非正式的编程活动在MATC和几个工业合作伙伴网站。在校园里有一个专门的学习空间，致力于化学技术的学生和机会，通过STEM马戏团与社区分享科学将促进一个学习社区，感觉连接到程序和学院。除了为化学技术学生提供工业实验室实地考察外，工业合作伙伴还致力于为这些学生提供关键的软技能培训：培养专业精神，撰写简历，面试准备和举行模拟面试。 该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。