Science and Information Technology Scholars: Recruiting, Retaining, and Graduating Biology, Computer Science, and Cybersecurity Students to Meet Workforce Needs

科学和信息技术学者：招募、保留和毕业生物学、计算机科学和网络安全学生以满足劳动力需求

• 批准号: 1930141
• 负责人: John Blevis
• 金额: $ 63.76万
• 依托单位: Felician University, A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation
• 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: 2019-12-15 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930141&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Information; Technology; Scholars; Recruiting

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians. It will do so by supporting high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Felician University. Over its five-year duration, the project will provide scholarships and other supports to sixteen students. These students will pursue bachelor’s degrees in biology, computer science, or cybersecurity. In addition to scholarships, Scholars will have access to academic and social supports, including first- and second-year experience courses, multi-year research experiences, faculty advising, and a formalized internship and mentorship program. Felician University is a Hispanic-serving Institution with a large proportion of female students. As a result, the project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields and in the STEM workforce. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The program has three specific aims: 1) recruit and enroll sixteen students majoring in biology, computer science, and/or cybersecurity; 2) retain and graduate at least thirteen Scholars; 3) prepare and enable the Scholars to enter the STEM workforce or STEM graduate programs within six months of graduation. To generate new knowledge, the project will investigate the effectiveness of the Integrative Academic Advising model in increasing student retention and completion. The findings can help guide other small Hispanic- and minority-serving institutions that aim to increase student retention and graduation. The results will be broadly disseminated to expand the research base on best practices for building student-faculty relationships to increase retention, persistence, student success, and placement into STEM careers or STEM graduate programs. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.

这个项目将有助于满足国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。它将通过支持费利西亚大学表现优异的低收入家庭学生来实现这一目标。该项目为期五年，将为16名学生提供奖学金和其他支持。这些学生将攻读生物学、计算机科学或网络安全方面的学士学位。除了奖学金，学者还将获得学术和社会支持，包括第一年和第二年的经验课程，多年的研究经验，教师建议，以及正式的实习和指导计划。费利西亚大学是一所为西班牙裔服务的大学，女学生占很大比例。因此，该项目有可能扩大STEM领域和STEM劳动力的参与。该项目的总体目标是提高有经济需求的低收入、高成就本科生的STEM学位完成率。该项目有三个具体目标：1)招收16名生物学、计算机科学和/或网络安全专业的学生；2)保留并培养至少13名学者；3)准备并使学者能够在毕业后六个月内进入STEM劳动力或STEM研究生项目。为了产生新的知识，该项目将调查综合学术咨询模式在提高学生保留率和完成度方面的有效性。这些发现可以帮助指导其他旨在提高学生保留率和毕业率的小型西班牙裔和少数族裔服务机构。研究结果将广泛传播，以扩大关于建立师生关系的最佳实践的研究基础，以提高学生的保留率、持久性、学生的成功以及进入STEM职业或STEM研究生项目的机会。该项目由美国国家科学基金会的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，旨在增加有经济需求的低收入学术天才学生在STEM领域获得学位的人数。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并为低收入学生提供有关学业成功、留校、转学、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。