Scholarships, Strategic Course Sequencing, and Comprehensive Student Support to Increase Undergraduate Degree Completion in Computing and Cybersecurity

奖学金、战略课程排序和全面的学生支持，以提高计算机和网络安全方面的本科学位完成率

• 批准号: 2030632
• 负责人: Wayne Machuca
• 金额: $ 64.78万
• 依托单位: Mount Hood Community College
• 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: 2021-02-01 至 2026-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2030632&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarships; Strategic; Course; Sequencing; Comprehensive

This project will contribute to the national need for skilled scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income STEM students at Mount Hood Community College. Over its five-year duration, the project will fund scholarships to 35 students who are pursuing Associate in Applied Science degrees in Cybersecurity and Networking and Computer Information Systems. Scholars will be admitted in three cohorts that include both full-time and part-time students, and receive up to three years of scholarship support. Scholars will participate in a new orientation course that integrates foundational information technology skills into the college's existing orientation and learning community for new students. The project intends to implement wraparound student services including personalized education plans and career pathways, appreciative advising, academic tutoring, and academic skills workshops. The project will contribute to the body of knowledge about impacts of scholarships and wraparound student services, with a focus on students pursuing degrees in information technology and/or in integrated systems and technology management education. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project aims for scholars to participate in co-curricular enrichment activities such as cybersecurity competitions, the Portland Chapter of Information Systems Security meetings and events, and other software development and cybersecurity events and exhibits. The project intends to address the problem of community college students' earning of excess credits that are not aligned with a degree or career program. To this end, the Scholars will create a personalized education plan within a career pathway curriculum. This plan will map out the courses needed each semester through graduation to ensure efficient and timely completion of their program. The project will provide Scholars with appreciative advising, a best practice characterized by the intentional collaborative practice of asking positive, open-ended questions to help students achieve academic success. This advising will be combined with academic tutoring and academic skills workshops to improve student outcomes, including degree completion or transfer. The project's research plan includes quantitative and qualitative techniques to investigate the impacts of project activities on Scholars’ academic outcomes, development of relevant professional capabilities, self-determination within their professional identities. An evaluation plan will examine the implementation and management processes to ensure fidelity to the project plan, identify compliance and performance issues, and make recommendations to improve the project elements and services over the course of the project period. Initial venues for dissemination will include presentations to local chapters of professional organizations, professional networking with peer institutions, and local and regional equity in education and STEM education conferences (e.g., Oregon Science Teachers Association Annual Fall Conference on Science Education). 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.

该项目将通过支持胡德山社区学院高成就，低收入STEM学生的保留和毕业，促进国家对熟练科学家，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35名正在攻读网络安全、网络和计算机信息系统应用科学副学士学位的学生提供奖学金。学者将被录取在三个队列，包括全日制和兼职学生，并获得长达三年的奖学金支持。 学者将参加一个新的方向课程，将基础信息技术技能融入学院现有的方向和学习社区的新生。该项目旨在实施全面的学生服务，包括个性化的教育计划和职业途径，赞赏建议，学术辅导和学术技能研讨会。该项目将有助于增进关于奖学金和综合学生服务影响的知识体系，重点是攻读信息技术和（或）综合系统和技术管理教育学位的学生。 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。该项目旨在让学者参加课外活动，如网络安全竞赛，信息系统安全会议和活动的波特兰章，以及其他软件开发和网络安全活动和展览。该项目旨在解决社区学院学生获得与学位或职业计划不一致的超额学分的问题。 为此，学者们将在职业途径课程中创建个性化的教育计划。该计划将制定出每学期所需的课程，以确保有效和及时完成他们的计划。该项目将为学者提供赞赏性建议，这是一种最佳实践，其特点是提出积极的，开放式的问题，以帮助学生取得学术成功。 这种建议将与学术辅导和学术技能研讨会相结合，以提高学生的成绩，包括学位完成或转移。该项目的研究计划包括定量和定性技术，以调查项目活动对学者的学术成果，相关专业能力的发展，在他们的专业身份的自决的影响。评价计划将审查执行和管理过程，以确保项目计划的忠实性，查明合规和业绩问题，并提出建议，以在项目期间改进项目要素和服务。最初的传播渠道将包括向专业组织的地方分会介绍情况，与同行机构建立专业网络，以及地方和区域教育公平和STEM教育会议（例如，俄勒冈州科学教师协会年度秋季科学教育会议）。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。