Intensive Student Supports to Increase Persistence and Completion of STEM Associate Degrees

强化学生支持以提高 STEM 副学士学位的坚持和完成率

• 批准号: 2030105
• 负责人: Tsuhen Chang
• 金额: $ 64.97万
• 依托单位: Maricopa County Community College District
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2030105&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Intensive; Student; Supports; Increase; Persistence

This project will contribute to the national need for well-prepared scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. The project is at GateWay Community College, one of ten colleges within the Maricopa County Community College District. The project team is looking to build a replicable STEM scholarship model that can expand beyond Phoenix and Maricopa County. Over the five-year duration of the project, at least 30 new students will receive up to two years of scholarship support. These STEM Scholars will be enrolled as a cohort to enable their joint participation in structured curricular and co-curricular activities. The project aims to create a community of support within each STEM Scholar cohort. This type of learning community will feature a combination of mandatory and optional student supports, including a summer bridge program, faculty mentoring/advising, math courses taught with supplemental instruction, and a variety of STEM club activities. This support is expected to establish a learning environment that provides an efficient pathway to academic success, degree completion, and entry into the workforce or four-year STEM degree programs.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The specific aims are to: (1) recruit students and provide financial support for their full-time enrollment; (2) provide evidence-based intensive academic support early and often throughout the associate STEM degree path; (3) generate new knowledge that can be used to explore and develop resources that support timely degree completion for a diverse population of students. The project team hypothesizes that STEM Scholars who receive mandatory, holistic supports will complete the associate degree at higher rates and in less time than a control group of students. Additionally, the STEM Scholars are expected to complete their degree with a higher program GPA. Finally, underrepresented STEM Scholars are expected to complete their degrees at similar rates and time as non-minoritized STEM Scholars. 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.

该项目将通过支持具有经济需求的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，促进国家对准备充分的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的需求。 该项目是在盖特韦社区学院，十所学院之一，在马尔马拉县社区学院区。 该项目团队正在寻求建立一个可复制的STEM奖学金模式，可以扩展到凤凰城和马里兰县以外。 在该项目的五年期间，至少有30名新生将获得长达两年的奖学金支持。 这些STEM学者将作为一个队列入学，使他们能够共同参与结构化的课程和课外活动。 该项目旨在在每个STEM学者群体中创建一个支持社区。这种类型的学习社区将结合强制性和可选的学生支持，包括夏桥计划，教师指导/建议，数学课程与补充教学，以及各种STEM俱乐部活动。这项支持预计将建立一个学习环境，提供一个有效的途径，学术成功，完成学位，并进入劳动力或四年制STEM学位课程。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就的本科生与证明经济需要STEM学位完成。 具体目标是：（1）招收学生，并为他们的全日制入学提供财政支持;（2）早期提供基于证据的密集学术支持，并经常贯穿副STEM学位的道路;（3）产生新的知识，可用于探索和开发支持及时完成学位的资源，为不同的学生群体。项目团队假设，接受强制性、全面支持的STEM学者将比对照组学生以更高的速度和更短的时间完成副学士学位。 此外，STEM学者预计将以更高的课程GPA完成学位。最后，代表性不足的STEM学者预计将以与非少数STEM学者相似的速度和时间完成学位。 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。