Enhancing a Transfer Pathway to Improve STEM Student Success

加强转学途径以提高 STEM 学生的成功

• 批准号: 2130281
• 负责人: Jefferson Roberts
• 金额: $ 144.42万
• 依托单位: Ohio State 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: 2021-12-15 至 2025-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2130281&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Transfer; Pathway; Improve; STEM

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 The Ohio State University at Newark. Ohio State Newark is a small, regional, diverse, affordable, mainly commuter, open-access entry point for students seeking a degree at The Ohio State University. Over its four-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 45 unique full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in any of the almost 40 available S-STEM eligible disciplines offered at Ohio State. Three cohorts of 15 first-year students will receive up to two years of scholarship funding, STEM enrichment activities, and supportive services on the Newark campus, then transition to the Columbus campus for degree completion. Project activities and services include: a short immersive research retreat at an active field station to launch each cohort; an academic year learning community with extra- and co-curricular opportunities in diverse STEM fields; and optional summer internships providing professional and career experiences. Scholarships and cohort activities will be scaffolded with individualized faculty mentoring, early and ongoing research experiences, direct interaction with academic scientists, industry scientists, and engineers, and multiple academic, social, and personal support services to keep scholars on track for campus transition and degree completion. The intellectual merit of this project is the generation of new knowledge about how student support activities affect student success in making a transition to a four-year program. Project results will be published and presented to national/international interest groups. Ohio State Newark will become an important pathway for a diverse demographic of low-income students to complete science, technology, engineering, or mathematics degrees at an R1 university they may previously have thought was beyond their reach.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Specific aims are to: recruit and retain eligible students; provide these students with academic and other support; facilitate transition to Ohio State Columbus campus eligible STEM departments; and disseminate lessons learned. The project design adapts successful evidence-based practices from traditional college settings to the environment of regional and community colleges. Investigations will examine efficacy of recruitment messaging, impact of performance-based STEM-focused financial aid on entry and retention, and patterns of success across gender, income level, race/ethnicity, and first-generation college student status. Project-level expected outcomes include successful transition from students’ first to second year, successful transition between campuses for their third year, and degree completion. Broader impacts include a better understanding of the campus-transition experience for students in STEM majors and adoption of successful program components by other public-university regional campuses to reduce attrition of similar students nationwide. Project evaluation will include focus groups, interviews, and analyses of student data. Evaluation results will be disseminated nationally and regionally through academic conferences, journals, higher-education organizations, and campus publications and events to reach more than 5000 faculty of Ohio State’s six campuses. 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.

该项目将有助于国家需要受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员，通过支持高成就，低收入的学生在俄亥俄州州立大学在纽瓦克证明经济需要的保留和毕业。俄亥俄州纽瓦克是一个小的，区域性的，多样化的，负担得起的，主要是通勤，开放的入口点，为学生寻求在俄亥俄州州立大学学位。在为期四年的时间里，该项目将为45名独特的全日制学生提供奖学金，这些学生正在俄亥俄州提供的近40个S-STEM合格学科中的任何一个攻读学士学位。三批15名一年级学生将在纽瓦克校区获得长达两年的奖学金资助，STEM丰富活动和支持服务，然后过渡到哥伦布校区完成学位。项目活动和服务包括：在一个活跃的现场站进行简短的沉浸式研究务虚会，以启动每个队列;一个学年学习社区，在不同的STEM领域提供课外和课外机会;以及可选的暑期实习，提供专业和职业经验。奖学金和队列活动将与个性化的教师指导，早期和正在进行的研究经验，与学术科学家，行业科学家和工程师的直接互动，以及多种学术，社会和个人支持服务，以保持学者在校园过渡和学位完成的轨道上。该项目的智力价值是关于学生支持活动如何影响学生成功过渡到四年制课程的新知识的产生。项目结果将公布并提交给国家/国际利益集团。俄亥俄州州立大学纽瓦克将成为低收入学生在R1大学完成科学、技术、工程或数学学位的重要途径，他们以前可能认为这是遥不可及的。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生完成STEM学位的机会。具体目标是：招募和留住合格的学生;为这些学生提供学术和其他支持;促进过渡到俄亥俄州哥伦布校区合格的STEM部门;并传播经验教训。该项目的设计适应成功的循证实践，从传统的大学环境的区域和社区学院的环境。调查将检查招聘信息的有效性，基于绩效的STEM重点财政援助对入学和保留的影响，以及性别，收入水平，种族/民族和第一代大学生身份的成功模式。项目层面的预期成果包括学生从第一年到第二年的成功过渡，第三年校园之间的成功过渡以及学位完成。更广泛的影响包括更好地了解STEM专业学生的校园过渡经验，以及其他公立大学区域校区采用成功的计划组件，以减少全国类似学生的流失。项目评估将包括焦点小组、访谈和学生数据分析。评估结果将通过学术会议、期刊、高等教育组织、校园出版物和活动在全国和地区范围内传播，以覆盖俄亥俄州六个校区的5000多名教师。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。