Winning Approaches for Talented Transfers in Science

科学人才转移的制胜之道

• 批准号: 2129966
• 负责人: Mary Preuss
• 金额: $ 119.18万
• 依托单位: Webster University
• 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: 2021-10-15 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2129966&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Winning; Approaches; Talented; Transfers; Science

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 transfer students with demonstrated financial need at Webster University. Over its five-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 32 unique full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and biology. The project focuses on the recruitment of transfer students from local and regional community colleges, with each scholar receiving 2-2.5 years of funding. This project will expand upon targeted academic and student support systems that have proven effective in decreasing time to graduation and in building collaborations with industry partners. The program will examine the effectiveness and impact of all activities offered, including the incorporation of a research component into scholarship recipients’ first semester. Best practices and lessons learned from this project will be documented and shared with other institutions interested in attracting and successfully graduating students transferring from community colleges and majoring in STEM. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project has three main objectives: to recruit and enroll academically talented, low-income community college students into biology and chemistry bachelor’s degree programs; to retain at least 90% of the students through targeted support practices; and to prepare our scholars for relevant industry employment or graduate level study. By implementing a research experience as part of a learning community in their first semester, the effectiveness on retention not only at Webster, but in research-oriented careers will be examined. The evaluation and knowledge-generation plan has been designed to gather both quantitative and qualitative annual data on the scholars’ program experience and post-graduation plans. Data will be used to understand the extent to which the overall articulated program goals and outcomes are met and what areas can be strengthened. The outcomes and evidence generated from the project will be presented at teaching and learning conferences and in academic 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.

该项目将通过支持有经济需求的成绩优异、低收入的转学生留在韦伯斯特大学并使其毕业，从而满足国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。在为期五年的时间内，该项目将为 32 名正在攻读化学和生物学学士学位的独特全日制学生提供奖学金。该项目的重点是从当地和地区社区学院招募转学生，每位学者获得2-2.5年的资助。该项目将扩展有针对性的学术和学生支持系统，这些系统已被证明可以有效缩短毕业时间并与行业合作伙伴建立合作。该计划将审查所提供的所有活动的有效性和影响，包括将研究部分纳入奖学金获得者的第一学期。该项目的最佳实践和经验教训将被记录下来，并与其他有兴趣吸引并成功从社区大学转学并主修 STEM 的学生毕业的机构分享。该项目的总体目标是提高有经济需求的低收入、成绩优异的本科生完成 STEM 学位的机会。该项目有三个主要目标：招募和招收有学术才华的低收入社区大学生进入生物学和化学学士学位课程；通过有针对性的支持实践留住至少 90% 的学生；并为我们的学者做好相关行业就业或研究生水平学习的准备。通过在第一学期将研究经验作为学习社区的一部分来实施，不仅可以检验韦伯斯特大学的保留效果，而且可以检验以研究为导向的职业生涯的保留效果。评估和知识生成计划旨在收集有关学者的项目经验和毕业后计划的定量和定性年度数据。数据将用于了解总体明确的计划目标和成果的实现程度以及可以加强哪些领域。该项目的成果和证据将在教学会议和学术期刊上展示。该项目由 NSF 科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加具有经济需求的低收入学术天才学生获得 STEM 领域学位的数量。它还旨在改善未来 STEM 工作者的教育，并产生有关低收入学生的学业成功、保留、转学、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。