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.

该项目将通过支持山胡德社区学院的高成就，低收入STEM学生的保留和毕业来帮助熟练的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求。在五年的持续时间内，该项目将为35名攻读网络安全和网络和计算机信息系统科学学位的学生提供奖学金。学者将在包括全日制学生和兼职学生在内的三个队列中被录取，并最多获得三年的奖学金支持。学者将参加一项新的取向课程，该课程将基础信息技术技能整合到学院的现有定向和学习社区中。该项目打算实施环绕的学生服务，包括个性化的教育计划和职业途径，欣赏咨询，学术辅导和学术技能讲习班。项目将有助于有关奖学金和环绕式学生服务影响的知识体系，重点是攻读信息技术和/或集成系统和技术管理教育学位的学生。该项目的总体目标是增加具有证明财务需求的低收入，高成就的大学生的茎学位完成。该项目的目的是让学者参与课程丰富活动，例如网络安全竞赛，信息系统安全会议和活动的波特兰分会以及其他软件开发以及网络安全活动和展览。该项目旨在解决社区大学生获得与学位或职业课程不符的超额学分的问题。为此，学者将在职业途径课程中制定个性化的教育计划。该计划将通过毕业来绘制每个学期所需的课程，以确保其计划的有效及时完成。该项目将为学者提供欣赏的咨询，这是一种最佳实践，其特点是有意协作实践，要求提出积极的开放式问题，以帮助学生取得学术上的成功。该咨询将与学术辅导和学术技能讲习班相结合，以改善学生的成绩，包括学位完成或转学。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学术成果的影响，相关专业能力的发展，其专业身份中的自决。评估计划将检查实施和管理流程，以确保对项目计划的保真度，确定合规性和绩效问题，并提出建议在项目期间改善项目元素和服务。传播的初始场所将包括向专业组织的本地章节，与同伴机构的专业网络以及教育和STEM教育会议的本地和地区公平的介绍（例如俄勒冈州科学教师协会年度科学教育会议）。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金提供资金，该计划旨在增加具有证明经济需求的低收入学术才华的学生人数，他们在STEM领域获得了学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工人的教育，并为低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业以及学术/职业途径提供知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估的珍贵的支​​持。