Establishing a Journey of Inclusion, Identity and Intersectionality through Guided Pathways to Enhance Latinx Success in Engineering and Computer Science

该项目将汇集北德克萨斯大学（UNT）和北中德克萨斯学院（NCTC），以减少工程和计算机科学（ECS）转学生的毕业时间，并更好地满足拉丁裔学生的需求。项目领导采取基于资产的方法，以促进种族和性别平等，并为工程拉丁社区的学生包容。主要项目组成部分包括为NCTC和UNT共同招生而设计的指导途径，与研究经验配对的体验式学习机会，以及教职员工研究员计划。此外，该项目还为NCTC和UNT管理人员，学生，教职员工共同举办活动，以增加拉丁学生的招聘，参与和支持。多层次的项目设计支持参与机构的优势，经验和拉丁美洲学生的观点的拥抱，努力创造一个广泛的，有凝聚力的社区的一部分。由改善本科STEM教育资助：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该项目将传播从他们的合作努力中产生的最佳实践的集合，这些最佳实践可以作为社区学院和大学之间的伙伴关系的模式，旨在增加拉丁社区在工程和计算机科学劳动力中的代表性。服务性”，从而使HSI从仅仅是“西班牙裔注册”发展到更深入地拥抱其指定为“西班牙裔服务”。“该项目将探讨包容性，身份和交叉性（三个我）的方面，以及它们如何结合联合收割机，以支持三个主要目标。首先是扩大拉丁裔学生学习ECS专业的招聘和转学机会。第二是在HSI的教师，学生盟友和倡导者之间建立一个共享的机构身份。第三是通过发展他们的工程身份，促进具有交叉身份的拉丁裔学生的持久性。三个研究问题将指导项目工作。1)拉丁裔学生如何在HSI的工程领域导航，以及他们在HSI的机会和经验如何与他们的成果相关？2)教师和工作人员如何将拉丁学生的集体文化财富纳入他们的课程和课外活动？3)拉丁裔学生的社区大学经历如何通过HSI的工程和计算机科学课程告知他们的途径？通过该项目，UNT和NCTC将提供新的计划，纳入基于资产的方法，以促进拉丁裔学生的成功。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。

This project will bring together the University of North Texas (UNT) and North Central Texas College (NCTC) to decrease the time to graduation for transfer students in engineering and computer science (ECS) and better meet the needs of Latinx students. The project leadership takes an asset-based approach to promote racial and gender equity and inclusion for students in Latinx communities in engineering. Major project components include guided pathways designed for co-enrollment at both NCTC and UNT, experiential learning opportunities paired with research experiences, and a faculty and staff fellows program. In addition, the project features co-hosted events for NCTC and UNT administrators, students, faculty and staff to increase the recruitment, engagement and support of Latinx students. The multi-level project design supports the participating institutions' embrace of the strengths, experiences, and perspectives of Latinx students as part of an effort to create a broad, cohesive community. Funded by the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), the project will disseminate a collection of best practices arising from their collaborative effort that can serve as a model for partnerships between community colleges and universities designed to increase representation of the Latinx community in the engineering and computer science workforce.The multiple project components are designed to embody the spirit of "servingness," whereby an HSI grows from being merely "Hispanic enrolling" to more deeply embrace its designation as "Hispanic serving." The project will explore aspects of Inclusion, Identity, and Intersectionality (the three I’s) and how they combine to support three major goals. First is to broaden the recruitment and transfer opportunities for Latinx students to study ECS majors. Second is to build a shared institutional identity among faculty, student allies, and advocates at an HSI. Third is to promote persistence among Latinx students with intersecting identities by developing their engineering identity. Three research questions will guide the project efforts. 1) How do Latinx students navigate the engineering fields at an HSI and how do their opportunities and experiences at an HSI relate to their outcomes? 2) How do faculty and staff incorporate Latinx students’ collective cultural wealth into their curricular and co-curricular programs? 3) How do the community college experiences of Latinx students inform their pathways through engineering and computer science programs at an HSI? Through the project, UNT and NCTC will offer new programs to incorporate an asset-based approach to promote the success of Latinx students. 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.