ICE-TI: Addressing the Socio-Economic needs of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate with a bachelor's of science in Behavioral Sciences

ICE-TI：通过行为科学学士学位满足 Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate 的社会经济需求

• 批准号: 2202379
• 负责人: Scott Morgan
• 金额: $ 250万
• 依托单位: Sisseton Wahpeton Community College
• 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: 2022-05-15 至 2027-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2202379&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ICE; TI; Addressing; Socio; Economic

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricular offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities for their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover may serve as a model and impetus for similar institutions of higher education to develop degree programs in the behavioral sciences. The connection of faculty to the development of novel opportunities for programs of study that ensure successful transfer to local employment, particularly tribal employment, or to post-baccalaureate studies at nearby universities will demonstrate the essentiality of engaging full-time, credentialed STEM faculty devoted to a specific strand of study and preparation. Moreover, for those students entering the workforce directly from a tribal college it is crucially important that they have a well-defined skill set in mathematics, science, and technology for entry into the STEM workforce. This project provides an accredited STEM bachelor's of science (BS) degree option in the behavioral sciences at Sisseton Wahpeton College (SWC) for students who may then transfer to a local university for graduate studies or be prepared for employment at local, particularly tribal, service organizations. The BS project builds on a well established associate degree (AS) in behavioral sciences, which has been a popular degree choice for SWC students. The increase in specialized STEM faculty ensures the curricular offerings have relevance to related programs of study, ensuring the option for students to minor as well as major in the behavioral sciences, and provides sufficient breadth in the degree coursework to prepare students for a broad range of employment positions available on the Lake Traverse Reservation. Strengthening the mathematics and language arts assists student success in many programs of study, not only those in STEM. This project also increases the number of the Nation’s tribal colleges that offer accredited BS degrees.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.

部落学院和大学方案的一个目标是提高为全国土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的科学、技术、工程和数学教学和研究能力。扩大这些机构的STEM课程设置，为学生提供了在STEM领域追求具有挑战性和回报的职业的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供了研究，并鼓励社区和一代人对科学和数学教育的欣赏。该项目直接与这一目标相一致，而且可以作为类似高等教育机构开发行为科学学位课程的模式和动力。 教师的连接，以确保成功转移到当地就业，特别是部落就业，或在附近的大学学士学位后的研究课程的新的机会的发展将证明从事全职的，有资格的STEM教师致力于研究和准备的特定链的重要性。此外，对于那些直接从部落学院进入劳动力市场的学生来说，他们在数学，科学和技术方面拥有明确的技能对于进入STEM劳动力市场至关重要。该项目提供了一个认可的STEM科学学士学位（BS）在Sisseton瓦佩顿学院（SWC）的行为科学的选择，然后谁可以转移到当地大学进行研究生学习或准备在当地就业，特别是部落，服务组织。BS项目建立在行为科学的成熟副学士学位（AS）基础上，这一直是SWC学生的热门学位选择。 专业STEM教师的增加确保了课程设置与相关学习课程的相关性，确保了学生选择辅修和主修行为科学，并为学位课程提供了足够的广度，为学生准备了广泛的就业岗位。 加强数学和语言艺术有助于学生在许多学习计划中取得成功，而不仅仅是那些在STEM中。 该项目还增加了国家部落学院提供认可的BS学位的数量。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得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的支持。