Paving a Transfer Pathway for Low-Income STEM Students

为低收入 STEM 学生铺平转学途径

• 批准号: 2221663
• 负责人: Yun Wan
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Houston - Victoria
• 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: 2022-10-15 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221663&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Paving; Transfer; Pathway; Low; Income

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the recruitment, retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Victoria College and the University of Houston-Victoria. Victoria College (VC) is a public, open-admission community college whose mission is to provide educational opportunities and services for the students and communities it serves. VC is a designated Hispanic Serving institution. The University of Houston–Victoria (UHV), also a Hispanic-Serving Institution, was developed in the 1970s as a university designed to serve upper-division and graduate students, such as those from Victoria College, who were seeking to continue their education, and now offers a full four-year academic program. Over its one-year duration, this collaborative planning project aims to strengthen ties between UHV and VC in computing program connection; investigate inter-institution student support mechanisms; and prepare a future National Science Foundation S-STEM grant proposal for an inter-institutional consortium between UHV and VC. Through the collection of data, this project will advance the understanding of best practices to help low-income and under-represented computing major VC students successfully transfer to UHV, complete their bachelor’s degrees, and pursue computing careers or graduate study. The significance of this project to create a smooth matriculating pathway to higher education will also lead to an important future NSF-funded grant project proposal to provide scholarships for these students who are pursuing bachelor’s and graduate degrees in the computer science disciplines.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Specifically, this proposed collaborative planning grant will help advance knowledge regarding: how to design and establish effective collaborative inter-institutional research and teaching activities to support computing major students with demonstrated unmet financial needs; how to identify the other unmet needs for transfer students pursuing computing majors, especially those from traditionally underrepresented groups, and how the institution could support them; how to design and develop a robust inter-institutional workforce development program for transfer students to help them to be successful in a future computing career and, at the same time, meet national priority needs. The broad scope of this strong collaboration between UHV and VC will directly affect current and prospective computing major students in these two institutions, including their improved academic achievement, enhanced campus experience, successful transfer to a public university, degree attainment, and future computing career or graduate study. Findings related to transfer student needs will also benefit transfer students in other institutions and regions, as well as researchers and educators in higher education who are interested in improving the degree attainment and career success of low-income and underrepresented transfer students. 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.

该项目将通过支持维多利亚学院和休斯顿-维多利亚大学的高成就、低收入学生的招聘、保留和毕业，满足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。维多利亚学院（VC）是一所公立的开放式社区学院，其使命是为学生和社区提供教育机会和服务。VC是一个指定的西班牙裔服务机构。休斯顿-维多利亚大学（UHV）也是一所西班牙裔服务机构，于20世纪70年代发展成为一所旨在为高年级和研究生提供服务的大学，例如那些寻求继续接受教育的维多利亚学院的学生，现在提供完整的四年制学术课程。在为期一年的时间里，这个合作规划项目旨在加强UHV和VC之间在计算程序连接方面的联系;调查机构间学生支持机制;并为UHV和VC之间的机构间联盟准备未来的国家科学基金会S-STEM拨款提案。通过收集数据，该项目将推进对最佳实践的理解，以帮助低收入和代表性不足的计算专业VC学生成功转移到UHV，完成学士学位，并追求计算职业或研究生学习。该项目的重要性在于为高等教育创造一个顺利的入学途径，这也将导致一个重要的未来NSF资助的赠款项目提案，为这些正在攻读计算机科学学科学士学位和研究生学位的学生提供奖学金。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生完成STEM学位的人数。具体来说，这项拟议的合作规划赠款将有助于推进知识：如何设计和建立有效的合作机构间的研究和教学活动，以支持计算机专业的学生与证明未满足的财政需求;如何确定其他未满足的需求，为转学学生追求计算专业，特别是那些传统上代表性不足的群体，以及该机构如何支持他们;如何为转学生设计和开发一个强大的机构间劳动力发展计划，以帮助他们在未来的计算机职业生涯中取得成功，同时满足国家的优先需求。UHV和VC之间的这种强大合作的广泛范围将直接影响这两个机构的当前和未来的计算专业学生，包括他们提高的学业成绩，增强的校园体验，成功转学到公立大学，学位获得以及未来的计算职业或研究生学习。与转学生需求相关的调查结果也将使其他机构和地区的转学生以及有兴趣提高低收入和代表性不足的转学生的学位获得和职业成功的高等教育研究人员和教育工作者受益。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，有学术天赋的学生的数量，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，并提供有关低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业途径的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。