Supporting student success in Emerging Technologies through scholarships, mentoring and leadership training

通过奖学金、指导和领导力培训支持学生在新兴技术领域取得成功

• 批准号: 2220260
• 负责人: Elodie Billionniere
• 金额: $ 149.88万
• 依托单位: Miami Dade College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2220260&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; student; success; Emerging; Technologies

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 Miami Dade College. Miami Dade College is one of the largest and most diverse public colleges in the nation and one of the largest Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Over its four-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 60 unique full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in emerging technology (EmTech) concentrations such as data analytics/data science, cybersecurity, and information systems technology. Students will receive two-year scholarships. The project will address the critical STEM workforce crisis by graduating numbers of well-trained and experienced professionals in these emerging technology fields. The project has the potential to serve as a framework for evidence-based best practices to broaden participation and access in STEM/EmTech learning experiences. This project intends to prepare low-income students (with a focus on underrepresented populations such as women of color) for the workforce through upskilling and reskilling in EmTech fields.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The objectives of the project are: 1) increasing retention and completion of enrolled project scholars seeking Bachelor of Science degrees in targeted EmTech fields; and 2) increasing workforce placement of project scholars. Project activities include: recruitment and outreach; mentorship; financial literacy education; a Summer Leadership Rotation Academy; and a STEM seminar series. Through iterative design and evaluation efforts, the project will develop an innovative model for workforce preparedness by demonstrating: 1) how financial assistance and academic supports will affect student retention and graduation; and 2) how psychosocial constructs will change students’ outcomes over time with social cognitive career theory-based interventions. Project results will be disseminated through internal, local, and national presentations, a project website, social media, and publications in peer-reviewed journals. 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，低收入的学生在迈阿密戴德学院证明经济需要的保留和毕业。迈阿密戴德学院是美国最大和最多样化的公立学院之一，也是最大的西班牙裔服务机构之一。在为期四年的时间里，该项目将为60名正在攻读新兴技术（EmTech）专业学士学位的全日制学生提供奖学金，如数据分析/数据科学，网络安全和信息系统技术。学生将获得为期两年的奖学金。该项目将通过培养这些新兴技术领域训练有素、经验丰富的专业人员来解决关键的STEM劳动力危机。该项目有可能作为循证最佳实践的框架，以扩大STEM/EmTech学习经验的参与和获取。该项目旨在通过EmTech领域的技能提升和再技能培训为低收入学生（重点关注有色人种等代表性不足的人群）的劳动力做好准备。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就本科生的STEM学位完成率，并证明经济需要。该项目的目标是：1）增加在目标EmTech领域寻求理学学士学位的注册项目学者的保留和完成; 2）增加项目学者的劳动力安置。项目活动包括：征聘和外联;指导;金融知识教育;夏季领导轮换学院;和STEM系列研讨会。通过迭代设计和评估工作，该项目将开发一个创新的劳动力准备模型，展示：1）经济援助和学术支持将如何影响学生的保留和毕业; 2）社会心理结构将如何随着时间的推移改变学生的结果与社会认知职业理论为基础的干预措施。项目成果将通过内部、地方和国家介绍、项目网站、社交媒体和同行评审期刊上的出版物传播。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。