Engaging, Empowering, and Retaining New Scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

吸引、赋权和留住科学、技术、工程和数学领域的新学者

• 批准号: 1930437
• 负责人: Urmi Duttagupta
• 金额: $ 99.96万
• 依托单位: CUNY New York City College of Technology
• 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 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930437&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engaging; Empowering; Retaining; New; Scholars

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 CUNY New York City College of Technology (City Tech), a Hispanic Serving Institution. Over its 5-year duration, this project will fund 40 scholarships per year to students pursuing bachelor's degrees in Applied Chemistry, Applied Computational Physics, Applied Mathematics and Biomedical Informatics or associate's degrees in Computer Science and Chemical Technology. Scholars are eligible for support for up to nine semesters for bachelor's degrees and five semesters for associate's degrees. With the goal of expanding the STEM degree pipeline, this project aims to improve retention and graduation in STEM fields by linking scholarships with effective mandatory support activities, including enhanced academic and professional advising, cohort meetings, undergraduate research experiences, graduate school preparation, and participation in discipline-specific conferences. Project personnel will encourage scholarship recipients to develop both learning cohorts with STEM peers and non-academic endeavors such as enrichment and extracurricular activities designed to foster a connection to the community at large. Because City Tech is a minority-serving institution, this project will impact underrepresented students, especially women, in STEM undergraduate and graduate programs as well as the the New York City workforce. This project is also expected to develop successful evidence-based interventions in support of this larger workforce aim.Four primary objectives inform this project. First, to recruit students in the targeted majors, focusing on underrepresented students. Second, to leverage scholarships to retain and graduate academically talented, low-income City Tech students. Third, to provide comprehensive support and programmatic activities to promote both timely progress to graduation and professional STEM identity formation. Fourth, to increase the transfer of students from associate to baccalaureate degree programs and beyond. The project will provide five evidence-based types of support to STEM students: a) increased exposure to research experiences; b) participation in a learning community of STEM peers; c) use of both robust peer-mentor counseling and one-on-one faculty mentoring; d) seminars and informal meetings with STEM researchers and professionals (especially emphasizing women and other underrepresented minorities), and e) the development of a website and a blog dedicated to STEM students. In addition, the educational literature can benefit from further studies describing structural factors that foster STEM identities. This project aims to fill this gap by identifying the key characteristics of student experiences in both academic and non-academic areas that support success and contribute to fostering a STEM identity. To ensure that the impact of the project is maximized, an independent external evaluator will conduct both formative and summative project assessments and results will be disseminated at conferences, via peer-reviewed research journals, and through a project website and LinkedIn accounts. 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，低收入的学生在纽约市立大学纽约市技术学院（城市技术），一个西班牙裔服务机构证明经济需要的保留和毕业。在为期5年的时间里，该项目每年将为攻读应用化学、应用计算物理、应用数学和生物医学信息学学士学位或计算机科学和化学技术副学士学位的学生提供40个奖学金。学者有资格获得学士学位最多九个学期和副学士学位最多五个学期的支持。为了扩大STEM学位管道的目标，该项目旨在通过将奖学金与有效的强制性支持活动联系起来，包括加强学术和专业咨询，队列会议，本科生研究经验，研究生院准备，以及参加特定学科的会议，来提高STEM领域的保留和毕业率。项目人员将鼓励奖学金获得者与STEM同龄人一起发展学习群体，并开展非学术活动，如旨在促进与整个社区联系的丰富和课外活动。由于城市技术是一个少数民族服务的机构，这个项目将影响代表性不足的学生，特别是妇女，在干本科和研究生课程以及纽约市的劳动力。预计该项目还将制定成功的循证干预措施，以支持这一更大的劳动力目标。第一，在目标专业招生，重点是代表性不足的学生。第二，利用奖学金来留住和毕业学术才华，低收入的城市技术学生。第三，提供全面的支持和方案活动，以促进及时毕业和专业STEM身份的形成。第四，增加学生从副学士学位课程到学士学位课程的转移。该项目将为STEM学生提供五种基于证据的支持：a）增加对研究经验的接触; B）参与STEM同行的学习社区; c）使用强大的同行导师咨询和一对一的教师指导; d）与STEM研究人员和专业人员举行研讨会和非正式会议（特别强调妇女和其他代表性不足的少数群体），以及e）开发一个专门针对STEM学生的网站和博客。此外，教育文献可以从进一步的研究中受益，这些研究描述了促进STEM身份的结构因素。该项目旨在通过确定学生在学术和非学术领域的经验的关键特征来填补这一空白，这些特征支持成功并有助于培养STEM身份。为确保最大限度地发挥项目的影响，将由一名独立的外部评价员进行形成性和总结性项目评估，并将在会议上、通过同行审查的研究期刊、项目网站和LinkedIn账户传播评估结果。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。