Integrative approaches to advancing retention, engagement, and graduation in STEM students across a multi-campus open-access institution

在多校区开放获取机构中采用综合方法提高 STEM 学生的保留率、参与度和毕业率

• 批准号: 2221026
• 负责人: Natalie Hyslop
• 金额: $ 149.99万
• 依托单位: University of North Georgia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2028-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221026&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrative; approaches; advancing; retention; engagement

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 the University of North Georgia. The University of North Georgia (UNG) is a multi-campus university, one of six senior military colleges in the nation, and is a state-designated leadership institution. Over its six-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to at least 31 unique full and part-time students who are pursuing both associate’s and bachelor’s degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics. First and second year students will receive up to four years of scholarship support. This project aims to increase student retention and persistence in STEM fields by providing scholarships along with research-based support practices including learning communities, cohorts, a first-year STEM seminar, intensive faculty mentoring, robust student support services, undergraduate research involvement, professional development, and internship opportunities. The project will additionally assist students with identifying career opportunities that align with their skills, interests, and the job market while providing them with the necessary professional development to reach those goals. These activities are designed to promote continuance in a STEM major while bringing together faculty and students from various disciplines to share educational and research experiences to broaden the STEM workforce with a diverse set of highly engaged individuals. Knowledge generated from this effort will be instrumental in advancing understanding of how activities such as faculty mentoring, developing individual learning plans, and early exposure to undergraduate research experiences support the retention and graduation rates of STEM majors.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. This goal will be achieved through the following objectives: 1) successful recruitment of students and retention of at least 80% after the first year of the program; 2) attain a placement rate of at least 90% in the STEM workforce, STEM bachelor’s program (for those obtaining an associate’s degree), or acceptance into a STEM graduate program; 3) graduate at least 75% of all students pursuing bachelor’s degrees within 5 years and 3 years for those pursing associate’s degrees. This project will study the importance and effectiveness of student participation in undergraduate research experiences in retention and post graduate success of which little is known as it related to various populations across a multi-campus institution. By investigating differences among UNG's multi-site S-STEM project, the project will evaluate how to better assist a breadth of students in STEM to degree completion. This project will advance knowledge on the leading indicators in various student populations that lead to STEM persistence. This project will be evaluated using an outside evaluator and the results from this project will be disseminated at regional, national and/or international conferences. 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.

该项目将通过支持北乔治亚大学的高成就，低收入的低收入学生的保留和毕业，以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。北佐治亚大学（UNG）是一所多校大学，是全国六个高级军事学院之一，是国家指定的领导力机构。在六年的持续时间内，该项目将为至少31名独特和兼职学生提供奖学金，这些学生正在攻读生物学，化学，工程，数学和物理学学士学位和学士学位。一年级和二年级的学生将获得最多四年的奖学金支持。该项目旨在通过提供奖学金以及基于研究的支持实践，包括学习社区，同伙，一年级的STEM半决赛，强化教师心理，强大的学生支持服务，本科研究研究，专业发展，专业发展和实习机会，来提高学生在STEM领域的保留和持久性。该项目还将帮助学生确定与他们的技能，兴趣和就业市场保持一致的职业机会，同时为他们提供必要的专业发展以实现这些目标。这些活动旨在促进继续在STEM专业的过程中，同时将各个学科的教职员工和学生汇集在一起​​，共享教育和研究经验，以与一群高度参与的人群扩大STEM劳动力。从这项努力中产生的知识将有助于理解诸如教师心理，制定个人学习计划以及早期接触本科研究经验等活动的方式支持STEM专业的保留率和研究生率。该项目的总体目标是提高STEM完成低收入，高学位，高学位不足的人，表现出了财务需求。该目标将通过以下目标实现：1）在该计划的第一年后，成功招募学生至少保留80％； 2）在STEM劳动力，STEM学士学位计划（对于获得副学士学位的人）或接受STEM研究生课程中的STEM劳动力中至少达到90％的安置率； 3）毕业至少有75％的学生在5年内攻读学士学位的所有学生中，为攻读副学士学位的人。该项目将研究学生参与本科研究经验的重要性和有效性，在保留和研究生成功方面，该研究与多校园机构的各个人群相关，这很少被称为。通过调查UNG多站点S-STEM项目之间的差异，该项目将评估如何更好地协助STEM的广泛学生达到一定程度的完成。该项目将促进有关各种学生人群的主要指标的知识，这些指标导致持久性。该项目将使用外部评估进行评估，该项目的结果将在区域，国家和/或国际会议上传播。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证明经济需求的低收入学术才华的学生人数，他们在STEM领域获得了学位。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。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。