Collaborating to Support the Success of Community College Transfer Students in Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science

合作支持社区大学转学生在工程、数学和计算机科学领域取得成功

• 批准号: 1930374
• 负责人: Vinitha Hannah Subburaj
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: West Texas A&M University
• 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: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930374&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborating; Support; Success; Community; College

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. Over five years, this project will fund two-year scholarships to 45 community college transfer students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics. This project will collaborate with community college leadership, faculty, and advisors to recruit transfer students, particularly women in computer science. Through strategies such as advising and peer-led team learning, the project expects to decrease the time to graduation of students who transfer from community colleges to the University. The project's research and evaluation will contribute to the body of knowledge regarding how to support the success of community college transfer students.The goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project has three objectives: (i) recruit Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics students at community colleges to transfer to West Texas A&M University; (ii) increase the academic achievement of these students following transfer; and (iii) develop efficient pathways from community college into four-year institutions. Student recruitment will be accomplished through personal contact at community college campuses, engaging community college students in co-curricular opportunities, and collaborative professional development between University and community college faculty. Scholars will be engaged in a peer-led team learning program, which will help to integrate the Scholars into the University's pre-professional STEM communities. Scholars will have the opportunity to be involved with interdisciplinary research projects under the guidance and mentorship of faculty and industry professionals. In addition, the project will provide continuous academic advising of Scholars, from community college enrollment through graduation with a Bachelor of Science degree. This project intends to increase understanding of the factors that influence pathways to graduation for community college transfer students in Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. The models developed through this project have the potential to be used by other universities to recruit, retain, and increase academic success of community college transfer students in STEM fields. Consequently, results will be broadly disseminated locally and nationally through existing partnerships, peer reviewed publications in STEM education journals, and presentations at professional conferences focused on transfer student success. 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.

该项目将通过支持有经济需要的高成就低收入学生的保留和毕业，促进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。 在五年内，该项目将资助为期两年的奖学金，以45个社区大学转学生谁是追求学士学位的计算机科学，工程或数学。该项目将与社区学院领导，教师和顾问合作，招募转学生，特别是计算机科学领域的女性。 通过诸如咨询和同行领导的团队学习等战略，该项目预计将减少从社区学院转入大学的学生的毕业时间。该项目的研究和评估将有助于了解如何支持社区学院转学生的成功。该项目的目标是提高低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生完成STEM学位的机会。该项目有三个目标：（i）招募社区学院的计算机科学，工程或数学学生转学到西德克萨斯A& M大学;（ii）提高这些学生在转校后的学业成绩;及（iii）发展由社区学院升读四年制院校的有效途径。 学生招聘将通过在社区大学校园的个人接触，从事社区大学的学生在共同课程的机会，以及大学和社区大学教师之间的合作专业发展完成。 学者将参与同行领导的团队学习计划，这将有助于将学者融入大学的职前STEM社区。学者将有机会在教师和行业专业人士的指导和指导下参与跨学科研究项目。 此外，该项目还将为学者提供持续的学术咨询，从社区大学入学到毕业获得理学学士学位。 该项目旨在增加对影响社区学院转学生计算机科学，工程和数学毕业途径的因素的理解。 通过这个项目开发的模型有可能被其他大学用来招募，留住和提高社区学院转学生在STEM领域的学术成功。因此，结果将通过现有的合作伙伴关系，在STEM教育期刊上发表同行评审的出版物，以及在专注于转学生成功的专业会议上发表演讲，在当地和全国范围内广泛传播。该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并提供有关低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业途径的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。