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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残疾学生在STEM领域的包容、联网和过渡机会联盟，也被称为NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM联盟，将与数十个合作组织采用集体影响的方法，增加残疾学生（SWDs）完成STEM副学士、学士和研究生学位并进入STEM劳动力市场的人数。奥本大学正在领导NSF INCLUDES联盟与五所高等教育机构（IHE）的主要合作伙伴关系，这些机构将指导区域合作IHE中心解决这一国家需求。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 INCLUDES联盟的合作伙伴包括27所高等教育机构和三个专业组织：残疾大学中心协会、高等教育和残疾协会以及美国学习障碍协会。合作伙伴将扩大NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM联盟，使其包括50多家高等教育机构，以实现更广泛的参与愿景，即增加社会福利人士在高等教育阶段的STEM教育，并使他们向STEM就业过渡。由亚历克西斯·佩特里（Alexis Petri）领导的密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校（University of Missouri-Kansas City）作为骨干组织，支持沟通、参与、网络系统、数据收集和分析、可持续性、规模和传播。内部评估将由奥本大学的工作人员领导，外部评估团队将由堪萨斯州立大学的退休教授琳达·p·瑟斯顿（Linda P. Thurston）领导。主要项目工作有三个目标，两个针对学生，另一个针对院校：1)增加完成STEM副学士、本科和研究生学位的社工人数；2)促进完成STEM学位的社工转变为STEM工作人员；3)加强高等教育机构、业界、政府、国家实验室和本地社区之间的沟通和合作，以满足社会福利工作者在STEM学科方面的教育需求。为了支持社工顺利完成学位，NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM联盟将为教职员工和STEM专业人士提供专业发展，以增加他们作为导师和研究合作者与社工的正式参与。此外，该联盟将加强高等教育机构、行业、政府、国家实验室和社区之间的合作，以满足社会福利人士在STEM学科方面的教育需求，从而增加社会福利人士在STEM领域实习、见习和就业的机会。此外，联盟的每个中心机构将领导一项关于STEM中的SWDs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、性格（例如，学生人口统计、家庭背景、动机、学业效率）和毅力之间的关系；研究组织情境因素与学生体验在学生承诺、坚持和学业保留方面的关系。领导山区中心的北亚利桑那大学团队将使用交叉性镜头调查以下方面的脱节和差距：a)与偏见、歧视和耻辱相关的学生经历；b)向学院教职员工提供的有关包容和识别交叉性的信息和信息；c)高等教育教职员工对偏见、歧视和污名的看法。由俄亥俄州立大学领导的东北中心团队将研究自闭症谱系障碍学生使用的哪些支持服务能促进学业成功，并受到学生的重视；以及哪些学术、社会和就业经历与增加的就业结果相关。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（如历史、社会、文化、残疾和个人）如何促进或阻碍学生对STEM高等教育的态度和机会的发展，STEM的身份发展，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 INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM联盟机构实施的学生成功模型如何增加学生在其项目中的准入、入学、进步和完成；他们将研究学生成功模式，每个机构如何在学生从大学到劳动力的过渡中实施艾滋病。领导西海岸中心的华盛顿大学团队将比较来自NSF INCLUDES TAPDINTO-STEM联盟学生的信息与正在进行的纵向研究的数据，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，并研究改善或扩大干预措施的建议。总之，这项研究将促进对社会福利人士的STEM学术途径和他们向劳动力过渡的认识。NSF INCLUDES联盟主要由美国国家科学基金会全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者学习者社区（NSF INCLUDES）资助，这是一项全面的国家倡议，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。该联盟由美国国家科学基金会建立的刺激竞争性研究计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。