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Supporting Undergraduate Mathematics and Computer Science Students with Scholarships and Culturally Responsive Mentoring

通过奖学金和文化响应式指导支持本科数学和计算机科学学生

基本信息

批准号：
2028011
负责人：
Jyoti Champanerkar
金额：
$ 100万
依托单位：
William Paterson 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：
2020-10-01 至 2025-09-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028011&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Supporting Undergraduate Mathematics Computer Science

项目摘要

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 William Paterson University, a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Over its five-year duration, the project will provide scholarships to 26 full-time, first year and transfer students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in mathematics, computer science, and computer information technology. First-year students will receive up to four years of scholarship support and transfer students will receive up to two-years of scholarship support. The Scholars will have access to multiple supports and increased opportunities to engage in research and internships. Scholars will also be mentored by faculty trained in culturally-responsive mentoring, which includes issues such as cultural competence and implicit bias and normalizing feelings about being a low-income or first-generation student. The project aims to produce new knowledge about the potential for culturally responsive mentoring and individual development plans to support undergraduate student retention, graduation, and post-graduation placement in STEM-related employment or graduate work. The University has a tradition of educating first-generation college students, many of whom are children of immigrant parents. As a result, this project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields for a population diverse students, including Latinx, low-income students. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project objectives include to: a) enroll three cohorts of low-income, academically talented students as Mathematics and Computer Science Scholars, supporting them with scholarships; b) improve year-over-year retention rates for Scholars who are first-time, full-time, first-year or transfer students; c) improve graduation rates for all Scholars; and d) perform a research study that investigates the relationship between college retention for low-income students and strength-based, culturally responsive mentoring. The intended project outcomes include strengthening recruitment of women into the target STEM majors, increasing enrollment across the targeted majors, and, consequentially, increasing the number of STEM graduates who enter the STEM workforce. These outcomes can contribute to the STEM workforce needs of New Jersey and the United States. The research plan will use methods consistent with Design and Development research projects described in the NSF Common Guidelines for Education and Research and Development and will focus on the project’s four objectives. Pertinent findings will be disseminated through the University website, meetings, conference presentations, and publications. 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求，通过支持高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，证明在威廉帕特森大学，西班牙裔服务机构的经济需求。在五年的时间里，该项目将为26名攻读数学、计算机科学和计算机信息技术学士学位的全日制、一年级和转学生提供奖学金。一年级学生将获得长达四年的奖学金支持，转学生将获得长达两年的奖学金支持。学者将有机会获得多种支持和更多的机会从事研究和实习。学者们还将接受受过文化响应式辅导培训的教师的指导，其中包括文化能力和隐性偏见等问题，以及作为低收入或第一代学生的正常化感受。该项目旨在产生关于文化上敏感的指导和个人发展计划的潜力的新知识，以支持本科生保留，毕业和毕业后安置在STEM相关的就业或研究生工作。该大学有教育第一代大学生的传统，其中许多人是移民父母的子女。因此，该项目有可能扩大STEM领域的参与人口多样化的学生，包括拉丁裔，低收入学生。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。该项目的目标包括：a）招收三批低收入、学术天赋好的学生为数学和计算机科学学者，并为他们提供奖学金; B）提高首次、全日制、一年级或转学生的学者的年保留率; c）提高所有学者的毕业率;以及d）进行一项研究，调查低收入家庭学生的大学保留率与基于实力、文化上敏感的指导之间的关系。预期的项目成果包括加强招聘妇女进入目标STEM专业，增加目标专业的入学人数，并因此增加进入STEM劳动力的STEM毕业生人数。这些成果可以促进新泽西和美国的STEM劳动力需求。该研究计划将使用与NSF教育和研究与开发共同指南中描述的设计与开发研究项目一致的方法，并将重点放在项目的四个目标上。相关调查结果将通过大学网站、会议、会议介绍和出版物传播。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。