GP-IMPACT: The Community College Compass - Mapping a Guided Pathway into Geosciences

第1部分社区学院指南针项目将通过组建一个合作伙伴联盟来推进改善本科STEM教育（IUSE）计划的努力，以开发和实施一条进入地球科学的指导途径，该途径将吸引纽约（CUNY）系统内社区学院的学生。社区学院的引导路径是一套策略，为学生提供高度结构化的学习体验，为他们提供明确的学术和专业目标，有凝聚力的学术课程，以及一致的支持服务，以帮助他们沿着沿着计划路径。纽约市立大学系统的社区学院被选为重点，因为虽然它们为我们的STEM劳动力多样化提供了强大的潜力，但学位完成率/4年制院校的转移率仍然很低。对于地球科学，多样性的挑战被进一步放大，创造了一个关键的需要，不仅要认识到这种差距，但参与对话和活动，加强进入地球科学的多种途径，包括那些从社区学院。社区学院的学生谁不留在地球科学代表人才和投资的损失。该联盟有机会证明，这些连接良好的网络在将多样性带入我们的研究社区和促进包容性卓越方面发挥着重要作用。第二部分这个为期三年的项目将使用一个集体影响框架，并遵循社区大学教育的指导路径模型。PI打算研究一个集体小组如何设计和实施指导途径进入地球科学社区大学的学生，并加强认识，兴趣，并最终招聘和预科进入地球科学专业在四年制大学内纽约市立大学。PI假设，通过围绕一个共同目标创建一个联盟，汇集来自社区学院的主要代表，并引入专门针对地球科学的指导途径的组成部分，学生将开始更好地了解该领域，但更重要的是，他们如何通过多种途径进入它。而不是创造一个尺寸适合-在纽约市立大学的社区学院的地球科学的所有指导途径，该项目旨在设计元素（即课程序列和地图，学习成果和转移程序）的指导途径，这可以随着时间的推移整合到现有的计划和部门。该联盟的工作将提供证据，证明一套基于研究的设计原则和策略，以支持学生，特别是地球科学，可以产生更强大的成果，招募学生进入该领域，并最终劳动力。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

Part 1The Community College Compass project will advance efforts in the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program by forming a consortium of partners to develop and implement a guided pathway into the Geosciences that will engage students across community colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Guided pathways in community colleges are a set of strategies that offer students highly structured learning experiences in which they are provided with clear academic and professional goals, cohesive academic programs, and aligned support services to assist them along program paths. Community colleges in the CUNY system have been chosen as the focal point because while they offer strong potential for diversifying our STEM workforce, low persistence in degree completion/transfer rates to 4-year institutions remains a challenge. For the Geosciences, the diversity challenge is magnified even further, creating a critical need to not only recognize this disparity, but to engage in conversations and activities that strengthen the multiple pathways into the Geosciences, including those from community colleges. Community college students who are not retained in the Geosciences represent a loss of talent and investment. The consortium has an opportunity to demonstrate that these well-connected networks have an important role to play in bringing diversity into our research communities and promoting inclusive excellence. Part 2This three-year project will use a collective impact framework and follow the guided pathway model to community college education. The PIs intend to study how a collective group can design and implement guided pathways into the Geosciences for community college students and strengthen awareness, interest, and ultimately recruitment and matriculation into geoscience majors at four-year institutions within CUNY. PIs hypothesize that by creating a consortium around a common goal, bringing together key representatives from community colleges, and introducing components of guided pathways specifically for the Geosciences, students will begin to better understand the field, but more importantly, how they can navigate their way through the multiple pathways into it. Rather than create a one-size-fits-all guided pathway in the Geosciences across CUNY's community colleges, the project aims to design elements (i.e. course sequences and maps, learning outcomes, and transfer procedures) of guided pathways, which can be integrated over time into existing programs and departments. The work of the consortium will provide evidence for how a set of research-based design principles and strategies to support students, particularly for the Geosciences, can yield stronger outcomes for recruiting students into the field and ultimately 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.