Collaborative Research: Practices and Research on Student Pathways in Education from Community College and Transfer Students in STEM (PROSPECT S-STEM)

合作研究：社区学院学生教育途径和 STEM 转学生的实践与研究 (PROSPECT S-STEM)

• 批准号: 2138074
• 负责人: Michelle Maher
• 金额: $ 58.32万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Kansas City
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2138074&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Practices; Student; Pathways

This S-STEM Research Hub 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. Across the past decade, 40%-50% of college students in the United States each year started their postsecondary education at a two-year college. Students enrolled at two-year colleges are more likely to be low-income and from historically underrepresented groups, compared to students who start postsecondary education enrolled in four-year colleges. Led by a collaborative team of universities and community colleges representing 9 current NSF S-STEM projects, the PROSPECT S-STEM research hub will explore how equitable partnerships between two-year colleges and four-year institutions can empower low-income STEM transfer students. Researchers at Clemson University, East Carolina University, Southeast Community College, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Augsburg University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of Texas at Arlington, and YNOTI Solutions along with 14 two-year college partners are united by their goal to support domestic, low-income undergraduates as they navigate the transfer process. Numerous challenges exist that can make it difficult for students to successfully transfer from two- and four-year colleges, which in turn can reduce the likelihood that these students earn a bachelor’s degree. This project will address this issue by collecting and analyzing national-level data to highlight transfer issues. The hub’s research will support the development of strategies and resources to build institutional partnerships designed to increase positive outcomes for low-income transfer students. The PROSPECT S-STEM Hub will operate as a research and dissemination hub to investigate the nature of two- and four-year colleges’ partnerships and how developing co-equitable partnerships can better support low-income STEM scholars before and after the transition process. There is a need to understand how two- and four-year colleges can effectively establish and maintain partnerships. Equitable partnerships that support transfer students necessarily involve a range of stakeholders across institutions. PROSPECT S-STEM will examine the nature of these partnerships through: a) longitudinal case studies of two- and four-year college partnerships trying to improve STEM transfer student success; and b) the establishments of professional learning communities with key stakeholders, including advisors, faculty, financial aid, student affairs professionals, and other administrators involved with transfer policies and programs. Our investigation of these partnerships is framed through the lens of community cultural wealth, partnership capital, and dimension of equity. The mixed methods research will include interviews, participant concept mapping, document analysis, and survey data from S-STEM Scholars. PROSPECT S-STEM will target dissemination to researchers, advisors, student affairs professionals, administrators and other stakeholders who support STEM transfer students, thus facilitating the scale up of this project’s practices and findings to others seeking to support low-income STEM transfer students. This hub 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.

这个S-STEM研究中心将通过支持具有经济需求的高成就，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。在过去的十年中，美国每年有40%-50%的大学生在两年制大学开始他们的中学后教育。与进入四年制大学接受中学后教育的学生相比，进入两年制大学的学生更有可能是低收入和历史上代表性不足的群体。在代表9个当前NSF S-STEM项目的大学和社区学院合作团队的领导下，前景S-STEM研究中心将探索两年制学院和四年制机构之间的公平合作伙伴关系如何增强低收入STEM转学生的能力。来自克莱姆森大学、东卡罗莱纳大学、东南社区学院、密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校、内布拉斯加大学林肯分校、奥格斯堡大学、北卡罗来纳州大学格林斯伯勒分校、德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校和YNOTI Solutions沿着14所两年制大学的研究人员，在他们的目标下团结一致，支持国内低收入的本科生顺利完成转学过程。存在许多挑战，使学生难以成功地从两年制和四年制大学转学，这反过来又会降低这些学生获得学士学位的可能性。该项目将通过收集和分析国家一级的数据来解决这一问题，以突出转让问题。该中心的研究将支持战略和资源的发展，以建立旨在增加低收入转学生的积极成果的机构伙伴关系。前景S-STEM中心将作为一个研究和传播中心，调查两年制和四年制大学的合作伙伴关系的性质，以及如何发展共同公平的合作伙伴关系，可以更好地支持低收入的STEM学者之前和之后的过渡过程。有必要了解两年制和四年制学院如何有效地建立和维持伙伴关系。支持转学生的公平伙伴关系必然涉及各机构的一系列利益攸关方。前景S-STEM将通过以下方式研究这些合作伙伴关系的性质：a）试图提高STEM转学学生成功率的两年制和四年制大学合作伙伴关系的纵向案例研究;以及B）与主要利益相关者建立专业学习社区，包括顾问，教师，财政援助，学生事务专业人员和其他参与转学政策和计划的管理人员。我们对这些伙伴关系的调查是通过社区文化财富、伙伴关系资本和公平维度的透镜来进行的。混合方法研究将包括访谈，参与者概念图，文件分析和S-STEM学者的调查数据。前景S-STEM将针对研究人员，顾问，学生事务专业人员，管理人员和其他支持STEM转学学生的利益相关者进行传播，从而促进将该项目的实践和研究结果推广到寻求支持低收入STEM转学学生的其他人。该中心由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天才学生的数量，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，并提供有关低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业途径的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。