Creating Opportunities for Student Retention and Degree Attainment in Engineering and Science

为工程和科学领域的学生保留和获得学位创造机会

• 批准号: 1930392
• 负责人: Jiaxin Zhao
• 金额: $ 99.33万
• 依托单位: West Hills Community College
• 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=1930392&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Opportunities; Student; Retention; Degree

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 at West Hills Community College (WHCC), a Hispanic Serving Institution. Over its 5-year duration, this project will fund 200 scholarships to at least 50 students who are pursuing associate's degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geology, Mathematics or Physics. Each student will receive up to four semesters of scholarship support. The project aims to increase student enrollment and persistence in STEM fields by supplementing scholarships with comprehensive support services, including mentoring, supplemental instruction, enhanced academic and career counseling, and enrichment opportunities. The project will implement a comprehensive data collection mechanism to document and disseminate best practices. Because WHCC has a high population of underrepresented students, this project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields and advance knowledge of the relationship between student support services and retention and graduation of students underrepresented in STEM degree programs.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income high achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Three objectives guide this project. First, to increase the recruitment, retention, student success, and graduation (or transfer to four year programs) of eligible students pursuing associate degrees. Second, to adapt, develop, implement, and study evidence-based practices that support student success. Third, to contribute to the documentation and dissemination of evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities for students underrepresented in STEM fields of study. This project will use qualitative and quantitative data analysis to study STEM identify formation and the impact of the program on student success by ethnicity, race, gender and disability status. An external evaluator will provide formative and summative feedback, and the project team will disseminate results at national conferences. 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.

该项目将有助于对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需要，通过支持高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，证明经济需要在西山社区学院（WHCC），西班牙裔服务机构。 在其5年的时间里，该项目将资助200个奖学金，至少50名学生谁正在攻读生物学，化学，工程学，地质学，数学或物理学副学士学位。 每个学生将获得最多四个学期的奖学金支持。 该项目旨在通过提供全面的支持服务来补充奖学金，包括指导，补充指导，加强学术和职业咨询以及丰富机会，从而提高学生在STEM领域的入学率和持久性。 该项目将实施一个全面的数据收集机制，以记录和传播最佳做法。 由于WHCC有一个高人口的代表性不足的学生，这个项目有可能扩大在STEM领域的参与和学生支持服务之间的关系，并在STEM学位课程代表性不足的学生的保留和毕业推进知识的潜力。这个项目的总体目标是提高低收入高成就的本科生与证明经济需要STEM学位完成。 三个目标指导这个项目。第一，增加招收、保留、学生成功和毕业（或转入四年制课程）符合条件的学生攻读副学士学位。第二，适应，开发，实施和研究支持学生成功的循证实践。第三，为在STEM研究领域代表性不足的学生提供基于证据的课程和课外活动的记录和传播。该项目将使用定性和定量数据分析来研究STEM识别形成和该计划对学生成功的影响，包括种族，种族，性别和残疾状况。一名外部评价人员将提供形成性和总结性反馈，项目小组将在国家会议上传播成果。 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。