Increasing Retention and Graduation of STEM Undergraduates through Scholarships and a Learning Community Combined with Academic, Social, Professional, and Family Supports

通过奖学金和学习社区以及学术、社会、专业和家庭支持，提高 STEM 本科生的保留率和毕业率

• 批准号: 2030665
• 负责人: HSI-JEN YEH
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: Azusa Pacific University
• 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=2030665&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; Retention; Graduation; STEM; Undergraduates

This project will contribute to the national need for highly skilled scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income STEM undergraduates. The project is located at Azusa Pacific University, a Hispanic-serving institution. Over its five-year duration, the project will fund scholarships to 14 students, who are enrolled at least half-time and are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in computer science, engineering, mathematics, and/or physics. Scholars will enter the project in their first year in college and will be supported for four years. They will participate in a STEM learning community that includes enrollment in common courses, peer and faculty mentoring, and academic success coaching. Additional Scholar supports include a STEM-focused success coach who will provide career guidance, as well as internships and research opportunities. A distinguishing feature of this project is organization of regular family gatherings designed to include Scholars’ families in supporting their students’ degree completion.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 to increase the Scholars’ first-year retention and four-year graduation rates. In doing so, the project intends to establish an enduring STEM-focused recruitment pipeline that includes local high schools with highly diverse student populations. The project will advance understanding of the effectiveness of pairing significant scholarship support with mentorship, both peer-to-peer and faculty-to-student. With expert guidance from nationally recognized consultants, the project expects to provide Scholars with transformative mentoring experiences, and produce nationally normed, measurable results of project effectiveness. 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.

该项目将通过支持高分，低收入的STEM本科生的保留和毕业，从而为高技能科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求做出贡献。该项目位于西班牙裔服务机构Azusa Pacific University。在五年的持续时间内，该项目将为14名学生提供奖学金，他们至少一半时间就读，并正在攻读计算机科学，工程，数学和/或物理学学士学位。学者将在大学的第一年进入该项目，并将获得四年的支持。他们将参加一个STEM学习社区，其中包括参加普通课程，同伴和教师心理的入学以及学术上的成功教练。额外的学者支持包括一位以STEM为重点的成功教练，他将提供职业指导以及实习和研究机会。该项目的一个区别特征是组织的定期家庭聚会组织，旨在包括学者的家庭支持学生学位的完成。该项目的总体目标是增加茎学位的完成，以证明经济需求，使低收入，高成就的本科生的本科生完成。该项目旨在提高学者的第一年保留率和四年的毕业率。在此过程中，该项目打算建立一个持久的以STEM为重点的招聘管道，其中包括当地高中，学生人数高度多样。该项目将促进了解将大量奖学金支持与对等人和教师与学生相结合的有效性。在全国认可的顾问的专家指导下，该项目希望为学者提供变革性的心态经验，并产生全国规范的项目有效性结果。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，并且我们是否使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来诚实地支持我们的支持。