Collaborative Research: A Research Hub for Understanding Inter- and intra-institutional partnerships that systematically support low-income engineering students

合作研究：一个了解机构间和机构内伙伴关系的研究中心，系统地支持低收入工程专业的学生

• 批准号: 2138112
• 负责人: Dustin Grote
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Weber State University
• 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: 2022-01-15 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2138112&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Hub; Understanding; Inter

This S-STEM Research Hub will contribute to the national need for well-educated engineers by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. The research hub is a collaboration between Virginia Tech, Northern Virginia Community College, Weber State University, and the University of Cincinnati. This project will reframe the many challenges associated with these students to be “organizational” challenges as opposed to “student-related” challenges, working on making the complex web of student supports work better for students. This research hub’s explicit focus on both first-time-in-college and transfer students ensures that this research will support ongoing efforts to broaden participation in STEM and identify more cost-effective ways for students to earn a bachelor’s degree. The hub will support a series of integrated activities, each designed to engage a diverse set of programs with a core focus on low-income engineering students. This hub will support accelerator grants from the Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) program community (40 total) focused on understanding the efficacy of their partnership designs, processes, and structures; four cohorts of grant teams will receive structured mentoring from hub leadership. Organizational partners associated with the accelerator grants will be invited to summer institutes to share ideas and data across projects and build campus-specific action plans. Illuminating how the complex web of student support can work better will identify new efficiencies in the STEM education system so that limited resources can be more wisely spent, and benefits can be extended.The overall goal of this Research Hub is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Although there are continual calls for partnership-enabled systemic, structural, and sustainable change within STEM education systems, understanding how such partnerships are built, designed, and sustained remains an elusive goal. This project will advance understanding of organizational partnerships that support academic pathways for domestic low-income engineering students, addressing the overarching question: How can intra- and inter-institutional partnerships be designed, built, and sustained to systematically support low-income engineering student success? The hub has specific mechanisms to engage S-STEM programs focused on low-income engineering students across diverse institutional contexts which will ensure that proposed data collection and integration will be successful, including research accelerator grants and summer institutes. Because accelerator grant projects will be contextually specific within institutions and coupled with the development of action plans during summer summits, the hub’s research activities will result in actual process improvements across institutions. Informed by literature on collaboration, institutional logics, and the model of co-curricular supports, the hub will also conduct a multiple case study of S-STEM program leaders and their organizational partners. This activity will integrate existing student success data streams across S-STEM programs and other archival data sets with the newly generated partnerships data stream. By linking the different organizational partnership models and approaches to existing student success data streams, the hub will generate new knowledge regarding the kinds of partnership processes and collaborations that colleges and universities may want to institutionalize to best support low-income engineering students. The hub will produce accessible and useful products for the S-STEM community (e.g., research-to-practice briefs) and develop a vibrant community of practice from a diverse range of institutions focused on research-informed organizational partnerships that support low-income engineering students. 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.

这个S-STEM研究中心将通过支持有经济需求的高成就低收入学生的保留和毕业，为全国对受过良好教育的工程师的需求做出贡献。该研究中心由弗吉尼亚理工大学、北弗吉尼亚社区学院、韦伯州立大学和辛辛那提大学合作建立。该项目将把与这些学生相关的许多挑战重新定义为“组织性”挑战，而不是“与学生相关”的挑战，致力于使复杂的学生支持网络更好地为学生服务。该研究中心明确关注大学新生和转学生，确保这项研究将支持正在进行的努力，以扩大STEM的参与，并为学生找到更经济有效的方式获得学士学位。该中心将支持一系列综合活动，每个活动都旨在参与一系列不同的项目，重点关注低收入的工程专业学生。该中心将支持来自STEM （S-STEM）项目社区的奖学金加速器拨款（共40个），重点是了解其合作伙伴关系设计、流程和结构的有效性；四组赠款团队将接受中心领导的结构化指导。与加速器赠款相关的组织合作伙伴将被邀请到暑期学院，在项目中分享想法和数据，并制定针对校园的行动计划。阐明复杂的学生支持网络如何更好地运作，将确定STEM教育系统的新效率，以便更明智地使用有限的资源，并扩大效益。该研究中心的总体目标是提高具有经济需求的低收入、高成就本科生的STEM学位完成率。尽管人们一直呼吁在STEM教育系统中进行系统性、结构性和可持续的变革，但了解如何建立、设计和维持这种伙伴关系仍然是一个难以实现的目标。本项目将促进对支持国内低收入工程专业学生学习途径的组织伙伴关系的理解，解决一个首要问题：如何设计、建立和维持机构内和机构间的伙伴关系，以系统地支持低收入工程专业学生的成功？该中心有特定的机制来参与S-STEM项目，重点关注不同机构背景下的低收入工程学生，这将确保拟议的数据收集和整合成功，包括研究加速器资助和暑期研究所。由于加速器资助项目将根据各机构的具体情况而定，并与夏季峰会期间制定的行动计划相结合，因此该中心的研究活动将导致各机构的实际流程改进。根据协作、机构逻辑和联合课程支持模式方面的文献，该中心还将对S-STEM项目负责人及其组织合作伙伴进行多案例研究。该活动将把S-STEM项目中现有的学生成功数据流和其他档案数据集与新生成的合作伙伴数据流整合在一起。通过将不同的组织伙伴关系模式和方法与现有的学生成功数据流联系起来，该中心将产生关于学院和大学可能希望制度化的伙伴关系流程和合作的新知识，以最好地支持低收入的工程专业学生。该中心将为S-STEM社区提供方便和有用的产品（例如，研究到实践的简报），并从各种各样的机构发展一个充满活力的实践社区，这些机构专注于研究知情的组织伙伴关系，以支持低收入的工程专业学生。该项目由美国国家科学基金会的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，旨在增加有经济需求的低收入学术天才学生在STEM领域获得学位的人数。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并为低收入学生提供有关学业成功、留校、转学、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Board 354: Organizational Partnerships S-STEM Research Hub

董事会 354：组织伙伴关系 S-STEM 研究中心

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference proceedings
• 作者: Knight, D. B.