Development of Excellence in Science through Intervention, Resilience, and Enrichment, Track II

通过干预、恢复力和丰富来发展卓越的科学，轨道 II

• 批准号: 2221046
• 负责人: Sunghee Lee
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: IONA UNIVERSITY
• 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 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221046&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Excellence; Science; through; Intervention

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 Iona College. Iona is a private institution in the New York City metropolitan area that enrolls a large proportion of underrepresented minority and commuter students who need strong support to develop connections to their STEM major and the college. Over its six-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 24 unique full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in computer science, biology, chemistry (including biochemistry), and mathematics. Scholars will enter as first-year students and will receive scholarships for four years. The project objectives are to improve recruitment, retention, and graduation of the scholars; facilitate the scholars’ ability to develop strong connections with faculty and peers; increase their awareness of STEM professional activities and professions through research and internship experiences; improve their understanding of careers and entrepreneurial activities; and facilitate their placement in a STEM career or graduate program. The project initiatives include a first-year learning community, faculty mentoring, peer-led academic and social network support, undergraduate research experiences and conference presentations, entrepreneurial education, and a four-year career development plan. The project adds to the knowledge base by evaluating the effectiveness of individualized attention from faculty, strong relationships with peers, and of first-hand experiences of STEM professional activities through research and internships and entrepreneurial education on the retention and success of low-income STEM majors, specifically Iona’s minority and primarily commuter undergraduates. The project hopes to develop highly trained STEM professionals from low-income backgrounds, thus improving their economic prospects, meeting local workforce demand, and broadening participation in STEM.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Specifically, the project aims to reduce the attrition rate in STEM majors caused by adjustment difficulties in introductory STEM courses coupled with a lack of resilience in struggling students, low feelings of connection and high career uncertainty that discourage students from overcoming initial academic challenges, and the difficulty faced by nonresidential students in forming student-faculty and student-peer relationships and developing a sense of belonging to the institutional community. Based on Iona College’s prior S-STEM experience and the literature, retention and graduation rates can be improved through individualized attention from faculty, strong relationships with peers, understanding of the connections between science and society, and firsthand experiences of STEM professional activities. The project will conduct an effectiveness study to generate evidence in support of these strategies, specifically faculty and peer mentoring, peer tutoring to increase first-year success, and undergraduate research and internships coupled with career awareness and development of an entrepreneurial mindset. The evaluation seeks to specifically determine the impact of activities that aim to increase retention in STEM and degree attainment by (1) improving the scholars’ relationships and feelings of connection to their major and the college and (2) enhancing student motivation to persist through increased knowledge of STEM professions, societal impacts, and career paths. Findings shared through regional and national conferences and publications should inform external STEM faculty and administrators of the merits of increasing individualized attention and extensive research experiences and could encourage institutions to adopt similar practices. 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.

该项目将通过支持受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求，通过支持在Iona College中表现出具有财务需求的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业。爱奥娜（Iona）是纽约市都会区的一家私人机构，招募了大部分代表性不足的少数群体和通勤学生，他们需要大力支持以建立与他们的STEM专业和大学的联系。在六年的持续时间内，该项目将为24名独特的全日制学生提供奖学金，这些学生正在攻读计算机科学，生物学，化学（包括生物化学）和数学学士学位。学者将作为一年级学生进入，并将获得四年的奖学金。项目目标是改善学者的招聘，保留和毕业；促进学者与教师和同龄人建立牢固联系的能力；通过研究和实习经验提高他们对STEM专业活动和专业人士的认识；提高他们对职业和企业家活动的理解；并促进他们在STEM职业或研究生课程中的安置。该项目举措包括第一年学习社区，教职员工，由同伴领导的学术和社交网络支持，本科研究经验和会议演讲，企业家教育以及四年的职业发展计划。该项目通过评估教师的个性化关注，与同龄人的牢固关系以及通过研究和实习以及对低收入STEM专业的保留和成功的企业家教育的第一手经验的有效性，从而增加了知识基础，特别是Iona的少数民族和主要的通勤者。该项目希望能够从低收入背景中发展受过良好训练的STEM专业人员，从而改善其经济前景，满足当地的劳动力需求并扩大参与STEM的参与。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入，高成就的较高成就不足的人的STEM学位，从而降低了在STEM中的限制，该项目旨在降低STEM的范围，旨在调整STEM的范围，以调整STEM的属性，以适应STEM的属性，该项目旨在调整STEM的属性，该项目旨在调整STEM的属性。陷入困境的学生的韧性，较低的联系和高职业不确定性阻碍学生克服最初的学术挑战，以及非居民学生在建立学生 - 教师和学生培养的关系方面所面临的困难，并发展了机构社区的遗产。根据Iona College先前的S-STEM经验和文献，可以通过来自教师的个性化关注，与同龄人的牢固关系，对科学与社会之间的联系以及STEM专业活动的首次体验来提高保留和毕业率。该项目将进行一项有效性研究，以生成支持这些策略的证据，特别是教师和同伴的心理，同伴辅导以提高第一年的成功，并在本科研究和实习期以及职业意识和发展企业家心态的发展。该评估旨在特别确定旨在通过（1）改善学者与他们的专业和大学的联系以及（2）通过增加对STEM专业人员，社会影响和职业道路的知识来增强学生的动力的活动，以提高学者的关系和联系的感觉，以提高STEM和学位的尝试的影响。通过区域和民族会议和出版物分享的结果应告知外部STEM教师和管理人员，具有增加个性化关注和广泛的研究经验的优点，并可以鼓励机构采取类似的实践。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金提供资金，该计划旨在增加具有在STEM领域获得学位的经济需求的低收入才华横溢的学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来STEM工人的教育，并为低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业以及学术/职业途径提供知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估的珍贵的支​​持。