Excelerate: Inspiring Excellence and Accelerating Achievement Through a STEM Scholars Program

Excelerate：通过 STEM 学者计划激发卓越并加速取得成就

• 批准号: 2129974
• 负责人: Amanda Sharrow
• 金额: $ 149.99万
• 依托单位: Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2129974&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Excelerate; Inspiring; Excellence; Accelerating; Achievement

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. Over its 6-year duration, this project will fund scholarships for 115 full-time students pursuing associate degrees in biological science, physical science, mathematics/statistics, computer and information science, engineering, and emerging technology fields. First-year students will receive up to two years of scholarship support. The project’s goal is to increase student persistence and completion in STEM fields by providing scholarships coupled with effective support activities including mentoring, learning communities, advising, an early alert system, ePortfolios, and a Summer Bridge Program. This project will improve STEM education and offer additional opportunities to pursue STEM courses of study to groups of students whose participation in STEM lags below their proportion in the overall population. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. This project will investigate how students benefit from co-curricular strategies such as cohorts and faculty mentoring when they are combined with other strategies like peer mentoring, summer bridge programs, co-curricular supports, and early alert systems. This project has the potential to advance the understanding of how these interventions contribute to the persistence and completion rates for a diverse group of students in STEM disciplines. Quantitative and qualitative measures will be used to determine project outcomes and the extent to which they are effective and replicable. End of semester surveys, and student progress reports will form the basis of a formative evaluation effort. Results of this project will be made available through a public webpage, presentations at regional conferences, and publications in peer-reviewed journals. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.

该项目将有助于对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需要，通过支持高成就，低收入的学生在密西西比墨西哥湾沿岸社区学院证明经济需要的保留和毕业。该项目为期6年，将为115名攻读生物科学、物理科学、数学/统计、计算机和信息科学、工程和新兴技术领域副学士学位的全日制学生提供奖学金。一年级学生将获得长达两年的奖学金支持。该项目的目标是通过提供奖学金以及有效的支持活动，包括辅导、学习社区、咨询、早期预警系统、电子门户和夏桥计划，提高学生在STEM领域的坚持和完成。该项目将改善STEM教育，并为那些参与STEM的人数低于其在总人口中所占比例的学生群体提供更多的学习STEM课程的机会。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就的本科生与证明财政需要完成STEM学位。这个项目将调查学生如何受益于课外策略，如队列和教师指导时，他们与其他策略，如同伴指导，夏桥计划，课外支持和早期预警系统相结合。该项目有可能促进对这些干预措施如何有助于STEM学科不同群体学生的持续性和完成率的理解。将采用定量和定性措施来确定项目成果及其有效性和可复制性。 期末调查和学生进度报告将构成形成性评估工作的基础。 这一项目的成果将通过一个公共网页、在区域会议上的介绍以及在同行评审期刊上的出版物公布。该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。