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推动改善本科生STEM教育(IUSE)计划的努力，形成一个合作伙伴联盟，开发和实施一条进入地球科学的指导路径，该路径将吸引纽约城市大学(CUNY)系统内社区学院的学生参与。社区大学的指导路径是一套为学生提供高度结构化的学习体验的策略，其中为他们提供明确的学术和专业目标、连贯的学术计划和协调一致的支持服务，以帮助他们沿着计划路径前进。CUNY系统中的社区学院之所以被选为重点，是因为尽管它们为我们的STEM劳动力多样化提供了强大的潜力，但在学位完成率/转化率到四年制院校的低持续率仍然是一个挑战。对于地球科学来说，多样性的挑战进一步放大，不仅需要认识到这种差异，而且需要参与对话和活动，以加强进入地球科学的多种途径，包括来自社区大学的途径。没有留在地球科学学院的社区大学生代表着人才和投资的损失。该联盟有机会证明，这些联系良好的网络在为我们的研究社区带来多样性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集体影响框架，并遵循引导路径模式来开展社区大学教育。PIs打算研究一个集体小组如何为社区大学生设计和实施进入地球科学的指导路径，并提高意识、兴趣，并最终招收和进入城市大学四年制机构的地球科学专业。PIS假设，通过围绕一个共同目标创建一个联盟，将来自社区大学的主要代表聚集在一起，并引入专门针对地球科学的指导路径组件，学生将开始更好地了解该领域，但更重要的是，他们如何通过多条路径进入该领域。该项目旨在设计指导路径的要素(即课程序列和地图、学习成果和转移程序)，而不是在CUNY的社区学院中创建一个一刀切的指导路径，随着时间的推移，这些指导路径可以整合到现有的计划和系中。该联盟的工作将提供证据，证明一套以研究为基础的设计原则和战略如何支持学生，特别是支持地球科学的学生，如何为招收学生进入该领域并最终获得更好的结果。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。

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.