"Engaging with Community for Undergraduate Student Success in Mathematics, Engineering and Science"

“与社区互动，促进本科生在数学、工程和科学方面的成功”

• 批准号: 2030997
• 负责人: Perla Myers
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of San Diego
• 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=2030997&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engaging; Community; Undergraduate; Student; Success

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 the University of San Diego. Over its five-year duration, this project will provide scholarships of up to four years to 16 full-time students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in STEM. Student majors will include behavioral neuroscience, biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, environmental and ocean sciences, mathematics, and/or physics. The entering first-year Scholars will be recruited from partnering community organizations that serve populations of students who are eligible for the S-STEM program. The project aims to increase the success of these Scholars by leveraging community engagement, along with individualized faculty mentoring. Scholars will also have opportunities such as access to research experiences and internships, and to community- and career-building activities. The project seeks to advance knowledge about the effectiveness of these activities on students' sense of belonging and STEM self-efficacy. The project will create and assess the effectiveness of institutional changes in the admissions process and institutional supports for the Scholars. Examples of notable institutional supports include development of a "Flourishing in STEM" student success course and a "Changemaking in STEM" course to encourage scholars to apply their STEM knowledge to issues affecting their communities. The project is centered on a mutually-beneficial and equitable collaboration between the University and community partners that will benefit the scholars, the community, and the University, and advance understanding of how a community-based approach, including meaningful community engagement, affects the scholars' persistence and success in STEM. The project will also investigate how the participation of the faculty mentors in a community of practice to share and discuss successful mentoring strategies, including culturally-informed practices, manifests itself in their mentoring and advising of students. It will also investigate the effects of these faculty mentoring strategies on the scholars' sense of belonging and STEM self-efficacy, which are qualities that support persistence in STEM. Progress toward achieving the project's goals and objectives will be evaluated annually by an external evaluator who will provide regular formative feedback. This input will be complemented by both an internal advisory board comprised of individuals invested in the success of the program, and an external advisory board to provide additional perspectives to aid in institutionalizing the project's initiatives. Findings will be disseminated in appropriate journals and conferences and through an online presence. 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.

该项目将通过支持圣地亚哥大学有经济需求的高成就、低收入学生的留校和毕业，为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做出贡献。该项目为期五年，将为16名攻读STEM学士学位的全日制学生提供最多四年的奖学金。学生专业将包括行为神经科学、生物学、化学、计算机科学、工程学、环境和海洋科学、数学和/或物理。入学的一年级奖学金将从合作社区组织中招募，这些组织服务于符合S-STEM项目资格的学生群体。该项目旨在通过利用社区参与以及个性化的教师指导来增加这些学者的成功。学者还将有机会获得研究经验和实习机会，以及参加社区和职业建设活动。该项目旨在增进对这些活动对学生归属感和STEM自我效能的有效性的了解。该项目将创建和评估招生过程中的机构改革和对学者的机构支持的有效性。值得注意的机构支持的例子包括开发“在STEM中蓬勃发展”的学生成功课程和“STEM中的变革”课程，以鼓励学者将其STEM知识应用于影响其社区的问题。该项目的核心是大学和社区合作伙伴之间的互利和平等的合作，这将使学者、社区和大学受益，并促进对基于社区的方法，包括有意义的社区参与，如何影响学者在STEM中的坚持和成功的理解。该项目还将调查教师导师在实践社区中的参与，以分享和讨论成功的指导战略，包括了解文化知识的实践，如何体现在他们对学生的指导和建议中。它还将调查这些教师指导策略对学者归属感和STEM自我效能感的影响，这是支持STEM坚持不懈的品质。实现项目目标和目的的进展情况将由一名外部评估员每年进行评估，该评估员将定期提供形成性反馈。这一投入将得到由个人组成的内部顾问委员会和外部顾问委员会的补充，前者由投资于项目成功的个人组成，后者提供额外的视角，帮助将项目的倡议制度化。调查结果将在适当的期刊和会议上以及通过在线形式传播。该项目由NSF的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。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业成功、留住、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优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。