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A multi-institutional partnership supporting timely associate and bachelor's degree completion in science and mathematics

多机构合作伙伴关系支持及时完成科学和数学方面的副学士学位和学士学位

基本信息

批准号：
2130103
负责人：
Teresa Jones-Wilson
金额：
$ 498.22万
依托单位：
East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
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：
2021-12-01 至 2026-11-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2130103&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
multi institutional partnership supporting timely

项目摘要

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 County College of Morris, Lehigh Carbon Community College, Luzerne County Community College, Northampton Community College, and East Stroudsburg University. This project is a partnership between 4 regional community colleges and East Stroudsburg University, a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Over its 5-year duration, the project will fund scholarships to 135 unique full-time and part-time students who are pursuing associate and bachelor’s degrees in 11 STEM fields including biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, chemical biotechnology, chemistry, computer science, computer security, environmental science, marine science, mathematics, and physics. Scholars will receive two-year scholarships to attend a partner community college and, post-transfer, an additional two years of scholarship support to attend East Stroudsburg University. The central tenet of the project is scholar success; addressing student needs is the priority. The project provides a model program to foster change and broaden student success through support including scholarships, proactive developmental advocacy holistic advising, cohort activities, peer mentoring and tutoring, and mentor mediated online education that fosters development of attitudes and behaviors associated with academic success. The team will identify and understand success predictors that affect student retention and degree completion. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Through project programing and intervention greater than 90% of project scholars will earn an associate degree and bachelor’s degree with a minimum 2.8 GPA. The project will reduce the transfer deficit (prerequisite courses missing at the time of transfer from community college to a 4-year institution), shortening the time to graduation and thus reducing student debt. The project will also increase students from underrepresented populations by enacting proven methods that focus on the student needs and support diverse populations. The project will create tested, sharable, scalable, and sustainable products that will ensure student success at the participating institutions and can be applied elsewhere. A faculty development advising training program among all partner institutions and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will be established and widely shared throughout the academic community and the nation. The project will establish how program practices result in improvements in scholar retention, in GPA, and in time to graduation. 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.

该项目将通过支持莫里斯县学院、利哈伊碳社区学院、卢泽恩县社区学院、北安普顿社区学院和东斯特鲁德斯堡大学表现出经济需要的高成就、低收入学生的保留和毕业，为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做出贡献。该项目是4个地区社区学院和东斯特鲁德斯堡大学（宾夕法尼亚州高等教育系统成员）之间的合作项目。在其5年的时间里，该项目将为135名正在攻读11个STEM领域的副学士和学士学位的全日制和非全日制学生提供奖学金，包括生物学，生物化学，生物技术，化学生物技术，化学，计算机科学，计算机安全，环境科学，海洋科学，数学和物理学。学者将获得为期两年的奖学金参加合作伙伴社区学院，并在转学后，额外两年的奖学金支持参加东斯特鲁德斯堡大学。该项目的中心宗旨是学者的成功;解决学生的需求是优先事项。该项目提供了一个示范计划，以促进变化和扩大学生的成功，通过支持，包括奖学金，积极的发展倡导整体咨询，队列活动，同伴指导和辅导，以及导师介导的在线教育，促进与学术成功相关的态度和行为的发展。该团队将识别和理解影响学生保留和学位完成的成功预测因素。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。通过项目规划和干预，超过90%的项目学者将以最低2.8 GPA获得副学士学位和学士学位。该项目将减少转学赤字（从社区学院转入四年制大学时缺少的先决课程），缩短毕业时间，从而减少学生债务。该项目还将通过制定注重学生需求和支持不同人群的行之有效的方法，增加来自代表性不足人口的学生。该项目将创建经过测试的，可共享的，可扩展的和可持续的产品，以确保学生在参与机构的成功，并可以在其他地方应用。将在所有合作机构和宾夕法尼亚州联邦之间建立一个教师发展咨询培训计划，并在整个学术界和全国范围内广泛分享。该项目将建立如何程序的做法，在学生保留，在GPA，并在毕业时间的改善结果。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。