A Knowledge-Based Framework for Creating and Sustaining Transformational Change for Latinx Student Success in STEM

该项目旨在使用多样性、公平性和包容性的视角，在德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校创造系统的、变革性的变化，以增加拉丁裔学生的数量，特别是在STEM职业生涯中具有竞争力的拉丁裔学生。为了实现在国家一级更多地参与STEM领域的目标，将实施一种考虑学习成果、学生经历、内部组织结构和外部影响的横向和可复制的机构方法。在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构计划(HSI计划)的支持下，该项目团队将有意将对多样性、公平和包容性的关注嵌入到教与学、专业发展以及政策和程序中，寻求改变整个机构的文化。支持长期影响的项目的一个关键方面是研究STEM教育与“服务性”之间的相互作用的能力建设，“服务性”是一种理解从简单地招收拉美裔学生到实际为他们服务意味着什么的概念方法。该项目寻求使数据的系统使用和关键利益相关者的真实参与制度化，以通过持续改进建立可持续的变化，并维护、维持和建设包容性的基础设施和资源。项目人员将识别、分层、组织、呈现和分发用于决策的数据。由教务长办公室协调的一个转型小组将使用这些数据来建议、规划和评估有关问题的行动。该机构计划通过改变为学生提供公平机会的核心课程来改变STEM本科教育。在课程的振兴中，教师工作组将开发模块材料，将其纳入大学核心，以增加包容性教学、STEM能力和参与度。教师领导和发展中心将实施一系列关于包容性和基于资产的教学法的专业发展。政府将努力挑选、补偿、发展和指导未来投资于多样性、公平性和包容性的教职领导。教务长办公室将与行政部门和教务委员会合作，制定政策和程序，以表彰教职员工在包容性教学和学习方面的努力。该项目将增加有关基于指标的规划的出版物；促进院长、主席和项目主管在规划和改进干预措施时定期使用指标和研究；增强利益攸关方通过可视化理解数据的多角度的能力；并扩大对有效做法的共享理解。改革将通过政策和程序制度化和持续，以表彰和奖励专注于学生成功和服务的教职员工。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建设HSIS的能力。鉴于高等教育机构的不同性质和背景，实现这些目标需要创新的方法，以激励机构和社区的变革，并促进基础研究(I)关于学生参与式学习，(Ii)关于如何有效地多样化和增加对STEM的参与，以及(Iii)提高我们对如何建设高等教育机构能力的理解。HSI计划支持的项目也将从这些方法中获得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。

This project aims to use a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens to create systemic, transformational change at the University of Texas at El Paso to increase the number of Latinx students, in particular Latina students, who are competitive in STEM careers. To achieve the aim of increased participation in STEM fields at the national level, a cross-cutting and replicable institutional approach that considers learning outcomes, students’ experiences, internal organizational structures, and external influences will be implemented. With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program), the project team will intentionally embed concern for diversity, equity, and inclusion in teaching and learning, professional development, and policies and procedures, seeking to shift culture across the institution. A key aspect of the project to support long term impact is capacity building for research on the interplay between STEM education and "servingness," a conceptual way to understand what it means to move from simply enrolling Latinx students to actually serving them.The project seeks to institutionalize the systematic use of data and the authentic engagement of key stakeholders to build sustained change through continuous improvement and to maintain, sustain, and build upon inclusive infrastructure and resources. Project personnel will identify, stratify, organize, present, and distribute data to be used for decision-making. A transformation team coordinated by the Provost’s Office will use those data to recommend, plan, and evaluate action on relevant issues. The institution plans to transform STEM undergraduate education through changes in core curricula that provide equitable opportunities to students. In a revitalization of the curriculum, working groups of faculty will develop modular materials for inclusion in the University core to increase inclusive instruction, STEM competencies, and engagement. The Center for Faculty Leadership and Development will implement a professional development series on inclusive and asset-based pedagogy. The administration will work to select, compensate, develop, and mentor future faculty leaders invested in diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Provost’s Office will work with administration and the Faculty Senate to codify policies and procedures that recognize faculty and staff efforts in inclusive teaching and learning. The project will increase publications on metrics-based planning; promote regular use of metrics and research by deans, chairs, and program directors in planning and improving interventions; enhance the ability of stakeholders to understand multiple perspectives on data through visualization; and expand shared understanding of effective practices. Changes will be institutionalized and sustained through policies and procedures that recognize and reward faculty and staff who focus on student success and servingness. 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.