Collaborative Research: Workshop - BP in STEM, Computer Science and Engineering through improved Financial Literacy

合作研究：研讨会 - 通过提高金融素养在 STEM、计算机科学和工程领域的 BP

• 批准号: 1939762
• 负责人: Erick Jones
• 金额: $ 2.82万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Arlington
• 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 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1939762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Workshop; BP; STEM

This collaborative research award supports our nation's capacity to build computer science, engineering and related scientific/mathematical workforce excellence through contribution of a convergent, interdisciplinary, and knowledgeable team that possesses the requisite financial literacy knowledge base. This workshop will convene a consortium of academia, industry, and government to seek understanding on how student financial literacy and related topics impact broadening participation in the computer and information sciences and engineering future workforce. This activity will result in understanding motivations of students in considering financial options such as excessive student loan debt through the project's graduate financial options framework. The input from this consortium will allow additional understanding on underrepresented populations which are shown to have excessive debt in comparison to their counterparts and how it impacts their decisions to join and participate in the U.S. STEM workforce. While a few workshops have been held to discuss broadening participation of underrepresented populations in computer and information sciences and engineering, there has not yet been a dedicated workshop to address the gaps in entering the workforce as caused by lack of financial literacy. The intellectual merit of the proposed activity are the models investigated to support the graduate financial options framework. The workshop sessions will serve to inform and provide understanding on how future career choices of students from underrepresented populations in computer science and engineering and related convergent data science fields are negatively impacted by preconditions such as excessive student loan debt. The broader impact of this workshop of supporting research that impacts recruitment, retention, and entry into the workforce of underrepresented students is significant. We expect workshop involvement of underrepresented minority student populations from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions at the associate, bachelor, masters and doctoral degree levels in computer science and related convergent fields such as computational neuroscience, operations research, and data science to promote the breadth of computer and information sciences and engineering field. By addressing this important topic through this research, this project will support and provide understanding on how to increase America's role for innovation, excellence, and advancement in the contributions of underrepresented minority students to the US science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce.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.

这项合作研究奖通过汇聚，跨学科和知识渊博的团队的贡献来支持我们国家建立计算机科学，工程和相关科学/数学劳动力卓越的能力，该团队拥有必要的金融素养知识库。该研讨会将召集一个学术界，行业和政府的财团，以寻求了解学生财务素养和相关主题如何影响扩大计算机和信息科学以及工程未来劳动力的参与。这项活动将导致理解学生在考虑财务方案（例如通过该项目的研究生财务选择框架）等财务选择的动机。 该财团的意见将允许对代表性不足的人口的更多了解，这些人口与同行相比，债务过多，以及它如何影响他们加入并参与美国STEM劳动力的决定。 尽管已经举办了一些研讨会，以讨论扩大代表性不足的计算机和信息科学和工程学的参与，但由于缺乏金融知识，尚未有一个专门的研讨会来解决进入劳动力方面的差距。拟议活动的智力优点是调查的模型以支持研究生财务期权框架。研讨会会议将有助于告知并提供有关计算机科学和工程中代表性不足的学生以及相关收敛数据科学领域的未来职业选择的理解，其前提条件（例如过多的学生贷款债务）对此产生了负面影响。 该研讨会对影响招聘，保留和进入代表性不足的学生劳动力的研究工作室的更广泛影响是重要的。 我们预计，来自历史悠久的黑人学院和大学的代表性不足的少数群体学生人数以及在计算机科学及其相关融合领域（例如计算神经科学，运营研究和数据科学）的助理，学士学位，硕士和博士学位的西班牙裔服务机构的参与。 通过通过这项研究解决这一重要主题，该项目将支持并提供有关如何提高美国在代表性不足的少数族裔学生对美国科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的贡献方面的作用的理解，这是NSF的法定任务和审查的范围，这是通过评估的范围来弥补的。