Integrating Scholarships, Academic Assistance, Professional Development, and Wellness to Increase Undergraduate Retention in Engineering and Computing

整合奖学金、学术援助、专业发展和健康，以提高本科生在工程和计算机领域的保留率

• 批准号: 1930492
• 负责人: Edward Gatzke
• 金额: $ 99.82万
• 依托单位: University of South Carolina at Columbia
• 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: 2020-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930492&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Scholarships; Academic; Assistance; Professional

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 its five-year duration, the project will fund four-year scholarships to 27 students who are pursuing Bachelor of Science degrees Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or Integrated Information Technology at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Engineering disciplines include Aerospace, Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering. By providing an integrated set of academic supports, social supports, and professional development opportunities, including support for career planning and for wellness, the project aims to improve retention of STEM students in engineering and computing fields. It also seeks to generate new knowledge about academic persistence of low-income, first-generation STEM students to support broadening participation in STEM education and careers.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. It aims to deliver an integrated suite of evidence-based retention strategies to increase persistence and retention, with a campus living/learning community approach at the center. The project includes a comprehensive wellness intervention across the four years of the project, with a focus on four key areas: grit/resiliency, loneliness, imposter syndrome, and general health & well-being. These key areas will also be central for training faculty and peer mentors to support the Scholars. Career pathways support includes workshops and seminars from local industry, interactions with the campus Career Center, and access to internships and undergraduate research opportunities. A mixed methods convergent parallel research design is planned to examine the impact of project elements on Scholars' self-efficacy, sense of belonging, and persistence, relative to a comparison group constructed via propensity score matching. Project evaluation will provide formative feedback regarding the effectiveness of program elements and collaborative partnerships, as well as summative evaluation of the extent to which the project meets retention and graduation targets. 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。 在为期五年的时间里，该项目将为27名在哥伦比亚的南卡罗来纳州大学攻读工程、计算机信息系统、计算机科学或综合信息技术理学学士学位的学生提供四年奖学金。 工程学科包括航空航天、生物医学、化学、土木、计算机、电气和机械工程。通过提供一套综合的学术支持，社会支持和专业发展机会，包括对职业规划和健康的支持，该项目旨在提高工程和计算领域STEM学生的保留率。该项目还寻求产生关于低收入、第一代STEM学生学术持续性的新知识，以支持扩大STEM教育和职业的参与。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生的STEM学位完成率。它旨在提供一套基于证据的保留策略，以提高持久性和保留率，并以校园生活/学习社区为中心。该项目包括一个全面的健康干预在该项目的四年，重点是四个关键领域：砂砾/弹性，孤独，冒名顶替者综合征，和一般健康福祉。 这些关键领域也将是培训教师和同行导师以支持学者的核心。职业途径支持包括来自当地行业的研讨会和研讨会，与校园职业中心的互动，以及获得实习和本科生研究机会。一个混合的方法收敛平行研究设计，计划检查项目元素对学者的自我效能感，归属感和持久性的影响，相对于通过倾向分数匹配构建的对照组。项目评估将提供有关计划要素和合作伙伴关系的有效性的形成性反馈，以及项目达到保留和毕业目标的程度的总结性评估。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。