Improved Support for Undergraduates at Community College Engaged in STEM Studies

加强对社区学院本科生从事 STEM 研究的支持

• 批准号: 2221392
• 负责人: Sean Tvelia
• 金额: $ 149.93万
• 依托单位: Suffolk Community 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 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221392&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improved; Support; Undergraduates; Community; College

Improved Support for Undergraduates at Community College Engaged in STEM StudiesThis 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 Suffolk County Community College.Suffolk County Community College is the largest community college in New York State’s SUNY system, and recently designated a Hispanic-serving institution. Over its six-year duration, the project will fund scholarships to 90 unique full- and part-time students pursuing associate degrees in biology, physical science, computer science, cyber security, engineering, and mathematics. First-year entering students, as well as continuing sophomores, will receive scholarships for up to two years. The project will develop college-wide and campus-based cohorts of interdisciplinary STEM students to foster the development of peer networks and increase the persistence and success of high-achieving, low-income students while also increasing career awareness. Studies have shown that learning communities, academic coaching, and opportunities for students to engage meaningfully within their discipline have direct positive impacts on student success, retention, and completion among under-represented, first- generation, and low-income college students. This project will also implement intrusive advising techniques to better identify and address the obstacles faced by students as they proceed through their chosen degree path. A new career and internship coordinator will connect individual students with local and regional employers and internship opportunities. Ancillary offerings provided by the project and open to the college community will increase awareness of STEM careers and regional workforce needs while ensuring participating students have the opportunity and resources to meet or exceed those regional needs and support the vitality and growth of the nation’s critical STEM industries.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion among low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. In addition to scholarships, awardees will benefit from 1) Professional educational and career advising, academic mentoring, and tutoring; 2) Improved peer and professional networks; and 3) Authentic research, presentation, and publication opportunities. The project will reduce the academic isolation that exists within the commuter student population and which influences student persistence, success, and completion. The program will provide up to 18 new and 16 continuing awards annually resulting in up to 90 unique students supported. It is expected that 85% of scholarship recipients will be retained and 75% will graduate and/or transfer within 150% of their degree time, which would exceed their non-participating counterparts by more than 30%. I-SUCCESS will advance understanding of the factors and activities associated with retention, transfer, academic and career pathways, and degree attainment. 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.

改善对STEM社区学院本科生的支持该项目将通过支持在苏福克县社区学院表现出经济需要的高成就低收入学生的保留和毕业来促进国家对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的需求。苏福克县社区学院是纽约州立大学系统中最大的社区学院，最近还指定了一家为西班牙裔服务的机构在为期六年的时间里，该项目将为90名攻读生物学、物理科学、计算机科学、网络安全、工程和数学副学士学位的全日制和非全日制学生提供奖学金。第一年入学的学生，以及继续进修的学生，将获得长达两年的奖学金。该项目将发展跨学科STEM学生的大学范围和校园群体，以促进同龄人网络的发展，并提高高成就，低收入学生的持久性和成功，同时提高职业意识。研究表明，学习社区、学术辅导和学生有意义地参与其学科的机会对学生的成功、保留和完成代表性不足的第一代和低收入大学生有直接的积极影响。该项目还将实施侵入式咨询技术，以更好地识别和解决学生在选择学位道路时面临的障碍。一名新的职业和实习协调员将为学生个人与当地和地区雇主和实习机会建立联系。 由该项目提供的并向大学社区开放的辅助课程将提高对STEM职业和地区劳动力需求的认识，同时确保参与学生有机会和资源来满足或超过这些地区需求，并支持国家关键STEM行业的活力和增长。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入人群的STEM学位完成率，有经济需求的优秀大学生。除了奖学金，获奖者将受益于1）专业教育和职业咨询，学术指导和辅导; 2）改善同行和专业网络;和3）真实的研究，演示和出版机会。该项目将减少通勤学生群体中存在的学术孤立，这会影响学生的坚持，成功和完成。该计划将提供多达18个新的和16个持续的奖项，每年导致多达90个独特的学生支持。预计85%的奖学金获得者将被保留，75%将在150%的学位时间内毕业和/或转学，这将超过非参与奖学金的学生30%以上。I-SUCCESS将促进对与保留，转移，学术和职业途径以及学位获得相关的因素和活动的理解。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。