Planning Grant: Bridging the STEM Gap - Enhancing STEM Education Using a Multitier Approach

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科课程为计划拨款提供支持，以研究和评估全面的机构努力，通过加强科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教育和研究来增加学生数量和提高他们的准备质量。南卡罗来纳州立大学的这个项目提供了一种重新设计STEM基础课程的战略方法，以提高学生的成功。该项目由正在进行的评价以及外部和内部咨询委员会提供指导和信息。该项目旨在建立STEM招生、留住和成功中心，以创造一个保证STEM学生成功的环境。该中心将专注于STEM的招聘、保留和学生服务活动。许多规划活动包括为该中心制定愿景和活动，通过在STEM把关课程中采用创新的教学策略，为学生提供实习和研究经验，并为他们为研究生院和劳动力做好准备，从而提高STEM学生的留存率。该项目将在物理和计算机科学入门课程中试行实施主动学习策略。将与卡尔霍恩县学区和奥兰治堡卡尔霍恩技术学院开展外展活动。这一奖项反映了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。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate program provides support for planning grants to study and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This project at South Carolina State University provides a strategic approach to redesigning foundational STEM courses to increase student success. The project is guided and informed by an on-going evaluation, as well as external and internal advisory committees. The project seeks to establish the STEM Recruitment, Retention, and Success Center to create an environment to guarantee STEM student success. The center will focus on STEM recruitment, retention and student service activities. Much of the planning activities involve creating the vision and the activities for this center to enhance STEM student retention by employing innovative teaching strategies in STEM gate-keeping courses, providing students with internships and research experiences, and preparing them for graduate school and the workforce. The project will pilot implementing active learning strategies in introductory Physics and Computer Science courses. Outreach activities with the Calhoun County School District and Orangeburg Calhoun Technical College will be conducted.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.