Scholarships and Science Opportunities, Activities, and Research to Support Undergraduate STEM Student Success

支持本科 STEM 学生成功的奖学金和科学机会、活动和研究

• 批准号: 2030650
• 负责人: John Wheeler
• 金额: $ 99.98万
• 依托单位: Furman 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=2030650&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarships; Science; Opportunities; Activities; Research

This project will contribute to the national demand for well-educated scientists by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need at Furman University, a national liberal arts university. Over its five-year duration, the project will fund scholarships to 24 unique full-time students pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry, Biology, Neuroscience, or Geosciences. Scholars will receive up to $10,000/year in scholarship support, renewable for four years. They will also engage in evidence-based supports and services, including an eight-day summer bridge experience. Through their entire college tenure, the Scholars will receive cohort-based advising that includes weekly seminar/workshop meetings during the Scholars’ first two years. Scholars will further benefit from curricular enhancements, including an adaptive online review of precalculus, and joint enrollment in introductory chemistry and first-year writing courses that use active learning and peer learning assistants. Scholars will also benefit from guaranteed support for early undergraduate research experiences. This suite of experiences, supports, and services is designed to enhance Scholars’ academic and social integration, helping Scholars progress to graduation and preparation for the STEM workforce or postgraduate STEM education. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Student participants will be Pell-eligible, with primary objectives to: (i) ensure that Scholar recruitment includes students self-identifying as first generation or as members of a group that is underrepresented in STEM; (ii) improve performance and resiliency in gateway chemistry and math courses; (iii) achieve a 90% four-year graduation rate, with at least 85% of initial enrollees completing a primary STEM degree. This effort expands a previous Track 1 S-STEM project to strengthen best practices for STEM intervention applied to under-resourced participants. Effectiveness pf project activities will be measured through research and evaluation focusing on multiple dimensions, including quantitative measures of academic success, STEM identity (including self-concept, sense of purpose and STEM socialization), community belonging, resiliency, and indicators of a life of purpose and meaning. This work seeks to advance understanding and plans to disseminate transferable outcomes and best practices locally and nationally, through conference presentations and publications in STEM education journals. 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.

该项目将通过支持在国立文科大学弗曼大学（Furman University）表现出经济需要的优秀学生的保留和毕业，促进国家对受过良好教育的科学家的需求。在五年的时间里，该项目将为24名攻读化学、生物学、神经科学或地球科学学士学位的全日制学生提供奖学金。学者将获得高达$10，000/年的奖学金支持，可续期四年。 他们还将参与循证支持和服务，包括为期八天的夏桥体验。 在他们的整个大学任期内，学者将获得基于队列的建议，包括在学者的头两年每周研讨会/讲习班会议。学者将进一步受益于课程的改进，包括预微积分的自适应在线审查，以及使用主动学习和同伴学习助手的入门化学和第一年写作课程的联合入学。学者们还将受益于对早期本科研究经验的保证支持。这套经验，支持和服务旨在加强学者的学术和社会融合，帮助学者进步到毕业和STEM劳动力或研究生STEM教育的准备。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。学生参与者将佩尔资格，主要目标是：（i）确保学者招聘包括学生自我识别为第一代或作为STEM代表性不足的群体的成员;（ii）提高网关化学和数学课程的性能和弹性;（iii）实现90%的四年毕业率，至少85%的初始入学者完成初级STEM学位。这一努力扩展了以前的轨道1 S-STEM项目，以加强适用于资源不足参与者的STEM干预的最佳实践。项目活动的有效性将通过侧重于多个维度的研究和评估来衡量，包括学术成功的量化措施，STEM身份（包括自我概念，目的感和STEM社会化），社区归属感，弹性以及有目的和有意义的生活指标。这项工作旨在促进理解，并计划通过在STEM教育期刊上的会议演讲和出版物，在当地和全国范围内传播可转移的成果和最佳实践。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。