Leveraging Familial Support Systems to Increase Retention of Low Income, Academically Talented Undergraduate STEM Students

利用家庭支持系统提高低收入、学术才华横溢的本科 STEM 学生的保留率

• 批准号: 1930279
• 负责人: Jill Keeney
• 金额: $ 96.49万
• 依托单位: Juniata College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930279&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Leveraging; Familial; Support; Systems; Increase

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. The project will support students at Juniata College, which serves a high proportion of first generation and low-income students. Over its five-year duration, this project will fund four-year scholarships to 18 students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Biology, Environmental Science, Chemistry, Physics, Geology, and/or Computer Science. Specifically, the project aims to increase student persistence in STEM fields through establishing a system of supports and activities that emphasize undergraduate research and STEM careers. The project will reach out to prospective students and families to inform them of the wide range of STEM careers. The project will support a group of 18 low-income, academically talented students with scholarships and major-specific faculty mentoring. It will also provide focused programming to all enrolled STEM students, thus broadening the impact of the project. This project will investigate how proactive family engagement can help low-income students best use their family support systems to attain positive academic outcomes. This work will contribute to increased understanding of the role of families in support of undergraduate student academic success. Because Juniata College has a high population of low-income STEM students from rural areas, this project has the potential to increase participation of these students in STEM fields. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. It will do so by focusing on the role of familial support systems in recruiting, enrolling, and retaining low-income STEM students, particularly those from rural areas. There are five project objectives: 1. Develop an enrollment program to inform perspective students' families about STEM careers; 2. Provide four-year scholarships to 18 low-income, academically talented first-year STEM students; 3. Support persistence of Scholars to graduation; 4. Increase the percentage of Juniata STEM students who continue in a STEM field post-graduation; and 5. Assess the impact of student communication with familial support systems on retention in STEM. This project aims to answer the research question: Can institutional practices that facilitate the development of familial support systems for low-income students help to recruit and retain low-income students in STEM? The project will coordinate student recruitment, course development, family outreach and engagement, and community building to support scholarship students. The project aims to help students maintain strong family ties and draw on that resource to support completion of their academic goals. The project will be evaluated by comparing the experiences of scholarship students, non-scholarship students, and a randomly selected group of low-income non-STEM students. Measures of academic need, social and academic support, as well as access to, and satisfaction with, institutional support will be compared between study groups. Project results will be disseminated through presentations at teaching conferences, publication in relevant journals, and communication with the S-STEM community via the project website and professional listservs. 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.

该项目将通过支持表现出经济需要的成绩优异的低收入家庭学生的保留和毕业，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。该项目将支持朱尼亚塔学院的学生，该学院为很大比例的第一代和低收入学生提供服务。该项目为期五年，将为18名攻读生物学、环境科学、化学、物理、地质学和/或计算机科学学士学位的学生提供四年奖学金。具体来说，该项目旨在通过建立一个强调本科研究和STEM职业的支持和活动系统，提高学生对STEM领域的坚持。该项目将接触到未来的学生和家庭，告知他们广泛的STEM职业。该项目将为18名低收入、有学术天赋的学生提供奖学金和专业教师指导。它还将为所有注册的STEM学生提供重点编程，从而扩大项目的影响。该项目将调查积极的家庭参与如何帮助低收入家庭的学生最好地利用他们的家庭支持系统来获得积极的学业成果。这项工作将有助于加深对家庭在支持本科生学业成功方面的作用的理解。由于朱尼亚塔学院有大量来自农村地区的低收入STEM学生，因此该项目有可能提高这些学生在STEM领域的参与度。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。它将通过关注家庭支持系统在招募、招收和留住低收入STEM学生，特别是来自农村地区的学生方面的作用来实现这一目标。有五个项目目标：1。制定招生计划，向未来学生的家庭介绍STEM职业；2. 为18名低收入、有学术天赋的STEM一年级学生提供四年奖学金；3. 支持学者坚持毕业；4. 提高朱尼亚塔STEM学生毕业后继续从事STEM领域工作的比例；和5。评估学生与家庭支持系统的交流对保留STEM的影响。本项目旨在回答以下研究问题：促进低收入学生家庭支持系统发展的制度实践是否有助于招收和留住STEM中的低收入学生？该项目将协调招生、课程开发、家庭外展和参与以及社区建设，以支持奖学金学生。该项目旨在帮助学生保持牢固的家庭关系，并利用这种资源来支持他们完成学业目标。该项目将通过比较奖学金学生、非奖学金学生和随机选择的一组低收入非stem学生的经历来评估。研究小组之间将比较学术需求、社会和学术支持以及机构支持的获取和满意度。项目成果将通过在教学会议上的演讲、在相关期刊上的发表、以及通过项目网站和专业列表服务与S-STEM社区的交流等方式传播。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。