NSF INCLUDES Alliance: ALRISE - Accelerate Latinx Representation In STEM Education with Institutional Intentionality and Capacity Building for Experiential Learning

NSF 包括联盟：ALRISE - 通过机构意向和体验式学习能力建设，加速 STEM 教育中拉丁裔的代表性

• 批准号: 2120021
• 负责人: Caroline VanIngen-Dunn
• 金额: $ 997.54万
• 依托单位: Arizona State 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 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2120021&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Alliance; ALRISE; Accelerate

The ALRISE Alliance is developing a network of faculty, staff, administrators, and students at 2-yr and 4-yr Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) and emerging HSIs (eHSIs) to accelerate Latinx representation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. Challenges such as (1) campus environments that are not intentionally culturally-responsive to Latinx STEM students; (2) deficit mindsets of STEM educators that devalue Latinx students’ strength and resilience; (3) Latinx STEM retention and graduation rates that are significantly lower than enrollment; and (4) the underrepresentation of Latinx professionals in STEM job clusters compound broadening participation efforts. These factors place a necessity for change on institutions, educators, and employers to intentionally harness Latinx students’ assets and create a more welcoming environment that fosters reproducible success. The ALRISE Alliance provides professional development for faculty, staff and industry to serve Latinx students with intentionality through culturally-responsive undergraduate research and work-based experiential learning. Uniquely focused on the intersectionality of Latinx STEM students and experiential learning, ALRISE fills an important gap in ongoing broadening participation efforts, with its focus on culturally-responsive experiential learning in an action-oriented and data-driven environment of continuous improvement and collaboration. The Networked Improvement Community (NIC) collaborative infrastructure of the ALRISE Alliance will mobilize large-scale change through shared vision, partnerships, common goals and metrics, leadership and communication, and potential for expansion, sustainability, and scale. The ALRISE backbone organization, Science Foundation Arizona Center for STEM at Arizona State University, provides leadership and communications structures to connect and collaborate amongst four Regional Hubs that coordinate a total of 26 HSI/eHSI institutional members and their STEM Planning educator teams. Partner subgroups defined by professional expertise in experiential learning and intentionality, undergraduate research, work-based experiences and advocacy and policy will provide services for assessing and developing intentionality across the Alliance. A continuous improvement cycle will be used to effect change locally while also improving the ALRISE Alliance and processes. Quantitative and qualitative data will be collected and analyzed at the student, institutional, and experiential learning program levels to provide evidence for practices supported and disseminated by ALRISE. Triangulated findings from multi-level mixed methods research, and outcomes from formative and summative evaluation, will advance knowledge on culturally responsive practices, HSI intentionality, and as-yet undiscovered common challenges and synergies within and across Alliance members. Instilling intentionality to serve Latinx students at the institutional level, and through asset-oriented educator professional development and coaching, will build capacity to effect change at each member institution. This capacity-building approach will not only serve the Latinx students actively engaged in experiential learning programs but also retain the knowledge and programs to impact a far greater number of students in the future.The ALRISE Alliance is 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 and the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (NSF IUSE): Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) program, which supports efforts to enhance the quality of undergraduate STEM education and to increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of students pursuing associate's or baccalaureate degrees in STEM.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.

ALRISE联盟正在开发一个由2年和4年西班牙裔服务机构（HSIs）和新兴HSIs （eHSIs）的教师、员工、管理人员和学生组成的网络，以加速拉丁裔在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育中的代表性。挑战包括：(1)校园环境没有有意识地对拉丁裔STEM学生的文化做出反应；(2) STEM教育工作者的缺陷心态，低估了拉丁裔学生的力量和韧性；(3)拉丁裔STEM的保留率和毕业率显著低于入学率；(4)拉丁裔专业人员在STEM工作集群中的代表性不足，阻碍了扩大参与的努力。这些因素使得机构、教育工作者和雇主有必要做出改变，有意识地利用拉丁裔学生的资产，创造一个更友好的环境，促进可复制的成功。ALRISE联盟为教职员工和行业提供专业发展，通过文化响应的本科研究和基于工作的体验式学习，有意为拉丁裔学生提供服务。ALRISE独特地专注于拉丁裔STEM学生和体验式学习的交叉性，填补了正在扩大参与努力的重要空白，其重点是在以行动为导向和数据驱动的持续改进和协作环境中进行文化响应式体验学习。ALRISE联盟的网络改进社区（NIC）协作基础设施将通过共同的愿景、伙伴关系、共同的目标和指标、领导和沟通，以及扩展、可持续性和规模的潜力，动员大规模的变革。ALRISE的骨干组织，亚利桑那州立大学的亚利桑那科学基金会STEM中心，提供领导和沟通结构，以连接和协作四个区域中心，协调26个HSI/eHSI机构成员及其STEM规划教育团队。由经验学习和意向性、本科生研究、基于工作的经验以及倡导和政策等方面的专业知识定义的合作伙伴小组将为评估和发展整个联盟的意向性提供服务。一个持续的改进周期将用于影响局部的变化，同时也改进ALRISE联盟和流程。定量和定性数据将在学生、机构和体验式学习项目层面收集和分析，为ALRISE支持和传播的实践提供证据。来自多层次混合方法研究的三角分析结果，以及形成性和总结性评估的结果，将促进对文化响应实践、恒生指数意向性以及尚未发现的共同挑战和联盟成员内部和之间的协同作用的认识。通过以资产为导向的教育工作者的专业发展和指导，逐步灌输在机构层面为拉丁裔学生服务的意向，将在每个成员机构建立影响变革的能力。这种能力建设方法不仅将服务于积极参与体验式学习项目的拉丁裔学生，而且还将保留知识和项目，以便在未来影响更多的学生。ALRISE联盟由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）在全国范围内的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的大规模参与以及改善本科STEM教育（NSF IUSE）来增强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）计划，该计划支持提高本科STEM教育质量的努力，并提高攻读STEM副学士学位或学士学位的学生的招聘、保留和毕业率。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。