Creating Opportunities for High-achieving Students in Science and Mathematics through Scholarships, Research Experiences, Leadership, and Community

通过奖学金、研究经验、领导力和社区为科学和数学方面成绩优异的学生创造机会

• 批准号: 2030763
• 负责人: Gretchen North
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Occidental College
• 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=2030763&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Opportunities; achieving; Students; Science

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Occidental College, a private liberal arts college. It will do so by providing financial, academic, and personal support to academically high-achieving students with financial need majoring in Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics and Physics. Over its five-year duration, the project will support two annual cohorts of ten second-year students with scholarships of up to $10,000 per year for up to three years. The project builds upon a successful prior Track 1 S-STEM award and will provide Scholars with opportunities for scientific research, internships, intellectual growth, and professional skill development. The project will generate and disseminate knowledge about promoting student success and increasing students’ perception of belonging in STEM. The overall goal of the project is to increase STEM degree completion of low income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The plan to achieve this goal includes recruiting, inspiring, and developing a diverse group of low-income, academically high-achieving STEM majors to identify as scientists and leaders in STEM. The project will complement and strengthen support services at the College by creating and implementing five initiatives: 1) a new first-year, writing-intensive STEM-focused seminar course; 2) a new third-year seminar course for STEM majors centered around scientific communication, career readiness, and professional development; 3) providing guaranteed opportunities for scholars to participate in undergraduate research, internship experiences, and disciplinary conferences; 4) enhanced advising and strategic mentoring; 5) multiple leadership opportunities in various settings and modalities, including peer-to-peer, community-based, role-modelling, volunteer, and direct assistance. The efficacy of the project components will be evaluated both formatively and summatively using multi-modal approaches to collecting and analyzing data associated with the project’s stated goals and objectives. The project has a robust research agenda that centers on determining barriers in STEM, their effects on retention and persistence, and how STEM identity evolves as students traverse their academic trajectory. The research plan includes closely tracking two entire classes of entering first-year college students through graduation to monitor how an age-structured cohort may provide younger students with inspiration and mentorship and older students with leadership skills and a deepened understanding of scientific practices that will inform their subsequent careers and 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.

该项目将通过支持在西方学院（一所私立文理学院）学习成绩好、收入低、有经济需要的学生的保留和毕业，促进国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。它将通过提供财务，学术和个人支持，以学术上取得优异成绩的学生与经济需要主修生物学，生物化学，化学，地质学，数学和物理学。该项目为期五年，每年将为两批10名二年级学生提供奖学金，每年最高可达10 000美元，为期三年。 该项目建立在之前成功的第1轨道S-STEM奖的基础上，将为学者提供科学研究，实习，智力成长和专业技能发展的机会。该项目将产生和传播有关促进学生成功和提高学生对STEM归属感的知识。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入，高成就的本科生与证明财政需要完成STEM学位。实现这一目标的计划包括招募，激励和发展一个低收入，学术成就高的STEM专业的多元化群体，以确定为STEM的科学家和领导者。该项目将通过创建和实施五项举措来补充和加强学院的支持服务：1）新的第一年，以写作密集型STEM为重点的研讨会课程; 2）围绕科学交流，职业准备和专业发展为STEM专业的新的第三年研讨会课程; 3）为学者提供参与本科研究，实习经验和学科会议的保证机会; 4）加强咨询和战略指导; 5）在各种环境和模式下的多种领导机会，包括点对点，基于社区，角色建模，志愿者和直接援助。将采用多模式方法收集和分析与项目既定目标和目的有关的数据，对项目组成部分的功效进行形成性和总结性评价。该项目有一个强有力的研究议程，重点是确定STEM中的障碍，它们对保留和持久性的影响，以及STEM身份如何随着学生的学术轨迹而演变。该研究计划包括密切跟踪进入大学一年级学生毕业的两个完整班级，以监测年龄结构的队列如何为年轻学生提供灵感和指导，为年长学生提供领导技能和对科学实践的深入理解，这将为他们随后的职业生涯和教育提供信息。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，并提供有关低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业途径的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。