Increasing Enrollment, Retention, Graduation, and Job Placement by Supporting the Connections of Commuter STEM Undergraduates to Faculty, Peers, and Industry

通过支持通勤 STEM 本科生与教师、同行和行业的联系来提高入学率、保留率、毕业率和就业安置率

• 批准号: 1930295
• 负责人: Darryl Aucoin
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: Caldwell University Inc
• 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=1930295&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; Enrollment; Retention; Graduation; Job

This project will contribute to the national need for highly skilled scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians. To do so, it will support the retention and graduation of eighteen high-achieving, low-income undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need at Caldwell University. The project focuses on supporting the needs of STEM students who live off campus and commute to college. The project will provide two-year scholarships to two cohorts of nine undergraduates who major in biology, chemistry, or mathematics. In addition to scholarships, the project will provide the Scholars with enhanced academic supports and increased opportunities to interact with faculty and peers, as well as with practicing STEM professionals. The project team will study how well these opportunities help commuter students develop meaningful relationships with resident students and with faculty. The project will generate new knowledge about the impact of supplemental instruction on commuter students' science identity, retention, degree attainment, and career choices. These findings may help other colleges and universities across the country better support the success of STEM undergraduates who commute to campus. The overall 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: 1) increase the number of students enrolled in biology, chemistry, or mathematics by enrolling a total of eighteen Scholars; 2) provide additional academic student support for Scholars, and increase and enhance interactions between faculty and Scholars; and 3) graduate 78% of Scholars in four years and have 90% of Scholars accepted into STEM graduate programs or professional positions within six months of graduation. The project will build on Caldwell University's current recruitment, outreach, and summer programs, as well as on existing industry connections. Faculty will support Scholars through mentoring relationships and weekly virtual office hours. Industry will support Scholars through an extended weekly first-year seminar and internships. Peers will support Scholars through weekly supplemental instruction, peer mentoring, and a collaborative learning space designed to help commuter students meet other like-minded students. The program will investigate how supplemental instruction enhances the development of students' science identity by examining student attendance, student reflections, and semi-structured interviews with supplemental instruction leaders. Results of the project will be broadly disseminated, thus contributing to current knowledge about how to support the success of undergraduate STEM commuter students. 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.

该项目将有助于满足国家对高技能科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。 要做到这一点，它将支持在考德威尔大学的18个高成就，低收入的本科生证明经济需要的保留和毕业。 该项目的重点是支持那些住在校外和通勤到大学的STEM学生的需求。 该项目将为两批九名生物、化学或数学专业的本科生提供为期两年的奖学金。 除了奖学金，该项目还将为学者提供更好的学术支持，并增加与教师和同行以及实践STEM专业人员互动的机会。 项目团队将研究这些机会如何帮助通勤学生与住校学生和教师建立有意义的关系。该项目将产生新的知识的影响，补充说明通勤学生的科学身份，保留，学位获得和职业选择。 这些发现可能有助于全国其他学院和大学更好地支持通勤到校园的STEM本科生的成功。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就的本科生与证明财政需要完成STEM学位。 该项目有三个目标：1）通过招收18名学者来增加生物，化学或数学的学生人数; 2）为学者提供额外的学术学生支持，并增加和加强教师和学者之间的互动; 3）78%的学者在四年内毕业，90%的学者在毕业后六个月内被STEM研究生课程或专业职位录取。该项目将建立在考德威尔大学目前的招聘，推广和暑期课程，以及现有的行业连接。 教师将通过指导关系和每周虚拟办公时间支持学者。 业界将通过每周一次的第一年研讨会和实习来支持学者。 同行将通过每周补充指导，同行指导和旨在帮助通勤学生满足其他志同道合的学生协作学习空间支持学者。该计划将调查如何补充教学提高学生的科学身份的发展，通过检查学生出勤率，学生的反思，并与补充教学领导人半结构化访谈。该项目的结果将被广泛传播，从而有助于了解如何支持本科STEM通勤学生的成功。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。