HSI Planning Project: Overcoming Barriers in the South Plains: Improving Retention for HSI Community College Students

HSI 规划项目：克服南部平原的障碍：提高 HSI 社区学院学生的保留率

• 批准号: 2116810
• 负责人: Laci Alexander
• 金额: $ 19.79万
• 依托单位: South Plains 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: 2021-09-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2116810&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Planning; Project; Overcoming; Barriers

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1: PPP aims to improve retention for HSI community college students. South Plains College (SPC) has identified a lack of preparation and knowledge among high school students when it comes to STEM careers and educational pathways. Despite 81% of SPC students indicating a desire to transfer, the number that transfer to a 4-year institution (29.5%) remains low. Our goal is for more underrepresented minority (URM) students to be better prepared for STEM majors and to achieve greater retention, transfer, and completion of STEM-centered bachelor’s degrees. The project will use faculty professional development to improve STEM advising and help students successfully navigate and academically progress at the community college. There will be two summer experiences planned to help improve academic readiness and interest in STEM fields. These will include a STEM summer experience to help rural students increase interest and understanding of STEM fields, and an Academic Success Academy to allow first-time college students onto campus 5-weeks early. The goal is to increase retention in STEM by preemptively overcoming the barriers many students face.The main objectives of this proposal which address retention and graduation rates of URM STEM students are to (1) improve STEM transfer rate by enhancing STEM advising and availability of resources for students to help break down barriers for URM students; (2) improve academic readiness and recruitment of K-12 students by planning an Academic success experience for high school dual credit students and first-year generation students to help improve college readiness; (3) survey students via success workshops to identify apparent and conceived barriers for URM students. Many URM students face more challenges and barriers upon enrolling and attending college than their majority counterparts. Improving advising will be accomplished by professional development for faculty advisors to increase knowledge and preparedness. In order to further the advancement of SPC’s URM students, this project will implement summer academies with tailored activities for these students. Through the summer academic experience, and improved required advisement (achieved through the professional development of advisors) plus study skills/student success workshops available to all students, the sense of belonging will be accelerated for STEM majors. The needs of students will be periodically accessed to tailor future plans during STEM-focused workshops. This project will help increase retention by increasing academic readiness before the students begin their college careers. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also draw from these approaches to generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），这条轨道1：PPP旨在提高HSI社区学院学生的保留率。 南平原学院（SPC）已经确定了高中学生在STEM职业和教育途径方面缺乏准备和知识。尽管81%的SPC学生表示希望转学，但转学到4年制院校的人数（29.5%）仍然很低。我们的目标是让更多代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生为STEM专业做好更好的准备，并实现更大的保留，转移和完成以STEM为中心的学士学位。该项目将利用教师的专业发展来改善STEM咨询，并帮助学生在社区学院成功导航和学业进步。将有两个夏季的经验计划，以帮助提高学术准备和STEM领域的兴趣。其中包括STEM暑期体验，以帮助农村学生提高对STEM领域的兴趣和理解，以及学术成功学院，让首次进入校园的大学生提前5周。目标是通过先发制人地克服许多学生面临的障碍来提高STEM的保留率。这项解决URM STEM学生保留率和毕业率的提案的主要目标是（1）通过加强STEM咨询和为学生提供资源来帮助打破URM学生的障碍，从而提高STEM转移率;（2）通过为高中双学分学生和一年级学生规划学术成功经验，以帮助提高大学准备，提高K-12学生的学术准备和招聘;（3）通过成功研讨会调查学生，以确定URM学生明显和设想的障碍。许多URM学生在入学和上大学时面临的挑战和障碍比他们的大多数同行更多。提高咨询将通过专业发展教师顾问，以增加知识和准备完成。为了进一步促进SPC URM学生的进步，该项目将为这些学生提供量身定制的暑期学校活动。通过夏季的学术经验，并提高所需的技能（通过顾问的专业发展实现）加上学习技能/学生成功研讨会提供给所有学生，归属感将加速干专业。学生的需求将定期访问，以定制未来的计划在STEM为重点的研讨会。这个项目将有助于提高保留通过提高学术准备之前，学生开始他们的大学生涯。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建立HSI的能力。实现这些目标，鉴于不同的性质和背景下的HSIs，需要创新的方法，激励机构和社区转型，促进基础研究（一）参与学生学习，（二）关于如何有效地多样化和增加STEM的参与，以及（三）提高我们对如何在HSIs建立机构能力的理解。HSI计划所支持的项目也将从这些方法中汲取经验，以产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。