Fostering Student Success and Diversity in STEM by Combining Scholarship Support with Mentoring and Research Engagement

通过将奖学金支持与指导和研究参与相结合，促进学生在 STEM 领域的成功和多样性

• 批准号: 1930530
• 负责人: E. Gloria Regisford
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Prairie View A & M University
• 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: 2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930530&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fostering; Student; Success; Diversity; STEM

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 Prairie View A&M University. Prairie View A&M University is an historically black college/university with a reputation of serving the economically disadvantaged and underserved population of Texas. Over its five-year duration, this project will fund four-year scholarships to twenty students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, or Mathematics. This project aims to increase student enrollment, retention, and persistence and improve 4-year graduation rates by linking these scholarships with effective supporting activities, such as cohort-building, undergraduate research experiences, mentoring, graduate school preparation, and participation in discipline-specific conferences. In so doing, the institution is taking a holistic approach to preparing its students for entrance into the workforce as a biologist, chemist, physicist or mathematician. As Prairie View A&M University has a high population of underrepresented students, this project will broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields. Additionally, this project will advance understanding of effective evidence-based strategies and activities that promote student participation and success in STEM. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need at Prairie View A&M University. Three objectives guide the project. First, to increase enrollment in the STEM disciplines of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. Second, to improve 3-year retention/persistence figures and 4-year graduation rates by engaging students in a multidimensional mentorship program. Third, to create a cross-discipline intellectual learning community that promotes advancement of project scholars to a STEM graduate program or into the STEM workforce. This project will also examine the role(s) of cohort-building, mentoring, and research engagement in fostering STEM student retention/persistence and high graduation rates, through the use of "intersectionality" as a theoretical approach. In particular, this project will provide an empirically informed perspective on how to meet the needs of STEM students who manifest more than a single primary identity status at a time; a status that embraces multiple equally weighted markers, such as socio-economic status, gender, and ethnicity. Additionally, an empirically-based and adaptable model for promoting student success will be developed that is dynamic, generalizable, and transferable to historically black colleges and universities, and other post-secondary institutions. Evaluation of this project will be performed, using a mixed-methods approach. Qualitative assessments will determine the effectiveness of mentoring, research experiences, and cohort building on increased enrollment, retention/persistence, and improved graduation rates of STEM students. In turn these qualitative methodologies will inform subsequent quantitative assessments. Results of this project will be disseminated through a variety of media, including a project website, social media, education journal publications, conference presentations and outreach activities. 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.

该项目将有助于国家需要受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员通过支持高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，证明在大草原视图AM大学的经济需要。 Prairie View A M University是一所历史悠久的黑人学院/大学，以服务德克萨斯州经济弱势和服务不足的人口而闻名。 在五年的时间里，该项目将为20名攻读生物学、化学、物理学或数学学士学位的学生提供四年的奖学金。该项目旨在提高学生入学率，保留率和持久性，并通过将这些奖学金与有效的支持活动联系起来来提高4年的毕业率，这些支持活动包括队列建设，本科生研究经验，指导，研究生院准备和参加特定学科的会议。在这样做的过程中，该机构正在采取全面的方法，为学生进入劳动力市场做好准备，成为生物学家，化学家，物理学家或数学家。 由于Prairie View A M大学的学生人数偏少，该项目将扩大代表性不足的少数民族在STEM领域的参与。 此外，该项目将促进对有效的循证策略和活动的理解，以促进学生在STEM中的参与和成功。 该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就的本科生在草原视图A M大学的经济需要证明干学位完成。三个目标指导该项目。首先，增加生物、化学、物理和数学等STEM学科的招生人数。第二，提高3年的保留/持久性的数字和4年的毕业率，通过让学生参与多维导师计划。第三，创建一个跨学科的智力学习社区，促进项目学者进入STEM研究生课程或进入STEM劳动力。该项目还将研究通过使用“交叉性”作为理论方法，在促进STEM学生保留/坚持和高毕业率方面的群体建设，指导和研究参与的作用。特别是，该项目将提供一个经验丰富的视角，了解如何满足STEM学生的需求，这些学生一次表现出多个主要身份状态;一种包含多个同等权重标记的状态，如社会经济地位，性别和种族。此外，将开发一种基于实践的和适应性强的促进学生成功的模式，这种模式是动态的，可推广的，并可转移到历史上的黑人学院和大学以及其他中学后机构。 将采用混合方法对该项目进行评价。 定性评估将确定指导，研究经验和队列建设对增加入学率，保留/持久性和提高STEM学生毕业率的有效性。反过来，这些定性方法将为随后的定量评估提供信息。 该项目的成果将通过各种媒体传播，包括项目网站、社交媒体、教育期刊出版物、会议介绍和外联活动。 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，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。