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NSF INCLUDES Alliance: The Alliance of Students with Disabilities for Inclusion, Networking, and Transition Opportunities in STEM (TAPDINTO-STEM)

NSF INCLUDES 联盟：残疾学生在 STEM 领域的包容、交流和过渡机会联盟 (TAPDINTO-STEM)

基本信息

批准号：
2119902
负责人：
Overtoun Jenda
金额：
$ 1000万
依托单位：
Auburn University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Cooperative Agreement
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-08-01 至 2027-07-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2119902&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
NSF INCLUDES Alliance Students Disabilities

项目摘要

Persons with disabilities are one of the most significantly underrepresented groups in STEM education and employment, comprising a disproportionately smaller percentage of STEM degrees and jobs compared to their percentages in the U.S. population. The NSF INCLUDES Alliance of Students with Disabilities for Inclusion, Networking, and Transition Opportunities in STEM, also known as the NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM Alliance, will employ a collective impact approach with dozens of partnering organizations to increase the number of students with disabilities (SWDs) who complete associate, baccalaureate and graduate STEM degrees and enter the STEM workforce. Auburn University is leading this NSF INCLUDES Alliance’s primary partnerships with five institutions of higher education (IHE) that will direct regional hubs of collaborating IHEs to address this national need. The hubs will be championed by Auburn University (Southeastern Hub), Northern Arizona University (Mountain Hub), The Ohio State University (Northeastern Hub), the University of Hawaii-Manoa (Islands Hub), the University of Missouri-Kansas City (Midwest Hub) and the University of Washington (West Coast Hub). The NSF INCLUDES Alliance partners include 27 IHEs with three professional organizations: The Association of University Centers on Disability, the Association on Higher Education And Disability and the Learning Disabilities Association of America. The partners will expand the NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM Alliance to include over 50 IHEs to address the broadening participation vision of increasing the education of SWDs in STEM at the post-secondary academic levels and their transitions to STEM employment. The University of Missouri-Kansas City serves as the backbone organization, led by Alexis Petri, to support communication, engagement, networked systems, data collection and analyses, sustainability, scaling and dissemination. An internal evaluation will be led by Auburn University personnel, and a team of external evaluators will be led by Linda P. Thurston, who is a professor emerita at Kansas State University.The primary project work targets three objectives, two focused on students and the other on institutions: 1) Increasing the quantity of SWDs completing associate, undergraduate, and graduate degrees in STEM; 2) Facilitating the transitions of SWDs from STEM degree completion into the STEM workforce; and 3) Enhancing communication and collaboration among IHEs, industry, government, national labs, and local communities in addressing the education needs of SWDs in STEM disciplines. To support SWDs in successfully completing their degrees, the NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM Alliance will provide professional development for faculty, staff and STEM professionals to increase their formal involvement, as mentors and research collaborators, with SWDs. Furthermore, the Alliance will increase collaboration among IHEs, industry, government, national labs, and communities to address the education needs of SWDs in STEM disciplines, leading to increased opportunities for SWDs in internships, apprenticeships and employment in the STEM workforce. Additionally, each of the Alliance’s hub institutions will lead a research study about SWDs in STEM. The Auburn University team, which leads the Southeast Hub, will investigate the relationship between student background experiences and dispositions (e.g., student demographics, family background, motivation, academic efficacy) and persistence; and they will study the relationship between organizational context factors and student experiences on student commitment, persistence, and academic retention. The Northern Arizona University team, which leads the Mountain Hub, will investigate, using an intersectionality lens, what are the disconnections and gaps between: a) the experiences of students related to bias, discrimination and stigma; b) the information and messaging available to IHE faculty and staff pertaining to inclusion and recognizing intersectionality; and c) IHE faculty and staff perceptions that perpetuate bias, discrimination and stigma. The Northeast Hub team, led by The Ohio State University, will study what support services used by students with autism spectrum disorders promote academic success and are valued by students; and which academic, social and employment experiences are correlated with increased employment outcomes. The Islands Hub team, led by the University of Hawaii-Manoa, will investigate how a variety of factors (e.g., historical, social, cultural, disability, and personal) facilitate or impede the development of student attitudes toward and access to postsecondary education in STEM, identity development in STEM, and persistence towards and graduation with a STEM degree. The Midwest Hub team, led by the University of Missouri-Kansas City, will examine how the student success model each NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM Alliance institution implements increases the access, entry, progress and completion of students in their programs; and they will study how the student success model each institution implements aids in the transition of students from college to the workforce. The University of Washington team, which leads the West Coast Hub, will compare information from the NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM Alliance students with data from an ongoing longitudinal study to examine which interventions students regard as most valuable, investigate patterns linking student demographics or interests with the interventions used, and study suggestions for improving or expanding interventions. Together, this research will advance knowledge about the STEM academic pathways of SWDs and their transitions to the workforce.This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is primarily funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The Alliance is jointly funded by the NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program.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.

残疾人是 STEM 教育和就业中代表性最严重不足的群体之一，与他们在美国人口中的比例相比，他们在 STEM 学位和工作中所占的比例要小得多。 NSF INCLUDES STEM 包容性、社交和过渡机会残疾学生联盟（也称为 NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM 联盟）将与数十个合作组织采用集体影响方法，以增加完成 STEM 副学士学位、学士学位和研究生学位并进入 STEM 劳动力队伍的残疾学生 (SWD) 数量。奥本大学正在领导这个 NSF，其中包括联盟与五家高等教育机构 (IHE) 的主要合作伙伴关系，这些合作伙伴将指导合作 IHE 的区域中心来满足这一国家需求。这些中心将由奥本大学（东南中心）、北亚利桑那大学（山区中心）、俄亥俄州立大学（东北中心）、夏威夷大学马诺阿分校（岛屿中心）、密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校（中西部中心）和华盛顿大学（西海岸中心）支持。 NSF 包括联盟合作伙伴包括 27 个 IHE 和三个专业组织：大学残疾中心协会、高等教育与残疾协会和美国学习障碍协会。合作伙伴将扩大 NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM 联盟，将 50 多个 IHE 纳入其中，以实现扩大社会福利署 (SWD) 高等教育 STEM 教育以及他们向 STEM 就业过渡的参与愿景。密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校作为骨干组织，由 Alexis Petri 领导，支持沟通、参与、网络系统、数据收集和分析、可持续性、扩展和传播。内部评估将由奥本大学人员领导，外部评估团队将由堪萨斯州立大学名誉教授 Linda P. Thurston 领导。主要项目工作目标有三个目标，两个目标针对学生，另一个目标针对机构： 1) 增加完成 STEM 副学士学位、本科生和研究生学位的社会福利署 (SWD) 数量； 2) 促进社会福利署完成 STEM 学位后过渡到 STEM 劳动力队伍； 3) 加强 IHE、行业、政府、国家实验室和当地社区之间的沟通与合作，以满足社会福利署在 STEM 学科的教育需求。为了支持 SWD 成功完成学位，NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM 联盟将为教职员工和 STEM 专业人员提供专业发展，以增加他们作为导师和研究合作者与 SWD 的正式参与。此外，该联盟将加强IHE、行业、政府、国家实验室和社区之间的合作，以满足社会福利署在STEM学科方面的教育需求，从而增加社会福利署在STEM劳动力中实习、学徒和就业的机会。此外，联盟的每个中心机构将领导一项有关 STEM 中社会福利署的研究。领导东南中心的奥本大学团队将调查学生背景经历和性格（例如学生人口统计、家庭背景、动机、学术效能）与坚持之间的关系；他们将研究组织环境因素与学生在承诺、坚持和学业保留方面的经历之间的关系。领导山区中心的北亚利桑那大学团队将使用交叉视角来调查以下方面之间的脱节和差距：a）学生与偏见、歧视和耻辱相关的经历； b) IHE 教职员工可获得的有关包容性和认识交叉性的信息和消息； c) IHE 教职员工的看法使偏见、歧视和耻辱永久化。由俄亥俄州立大学领导的东北中心团队将研究患有自闭症谱系障碍的学生使用哪些支持服务可以促进学业成功并受到学生的重视；哪些学术、社会和就业经历与就业成果的提高相关。由夏威夷大学马诺阿分校领导的岛屿中心团队将调查各种因素（例如历史、社会、文化、残疾和个人）如何促进或阻碍学生对 STEM 高等教育的态度和获得机会的发展、STEM 身份的发展以及对 STEM 学位的坚持和毕业。由密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校领导的中西部中心团队将研究每个 NSF 包括 TAPDINTO-STEM 联盟机构实施的学生成功模式如何增加学生在其项目中的访问、进入、进步和完成；他们将研究每个机构的学生成功模式如何帮助学生从大学过渡到劳动力市场。领导西海岸中心的华盛顿大学团队将把来自 NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM 联盟学生的信息与正在进行的纵向研究的数据进行比较，以检查学生认为哪些干预措施最有价值，调查将学生人口统计或兴趣与所使用的干预措施联系起来的模式，并研究改进或扩大干预措施的建议。总之，这项研究将增进对社会福利署的 STEM 学术途径及其向劳动力过渡的了解。这个 NSF INCLUDES 联盟主要由 NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) 资助，这是一项全面的国家举措，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大 STEM 的大规模参与来增强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。该联盟由 NSF 刺激竞争研究既定计划 (EPSCoR) 计划共同资助。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。