Innovative and Meaningful Mentoring to Enhance Retention, Success, and Engagement in STEM

创新且有意义的指导可提高 STEM 的保留率、成功率和参与度

• 批准号: 2221696
• 负责人: Emilie Hein
• 金额: $ 149.89万
• 依托单位: San Mateo County Community College District
• 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 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221696&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Innovative; Meaningful; Mentoring; Enhance; Retention

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 Skyline College, a two-year Hispanic Serving Institution, situated in Silicon Valley, a hub of STEM innovation with many high-demand jobs. Over its 5-year duration, this project will fund 90 scholarships to at least 30 students who are advancing toward an associate degree or transfer to a four-year university to earn a degree in Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics. All students will receive up to three years of support. In addition to scholarships, the project will incorporate a transformative approach to mentoring, and innovative supports intended to address financial and academic barriers. All participating students will engage in a comprehensive set of evidence-based co-curricular services designed to support their persistence, completion, and transfer. By combining financial assistance with academic support and mentor guidance, this project should increase the number of students in STEM fields, especially from underrepresented groups. Faculty mentors will be trained on innovative and effective approaches to student retention and success, such as the implementation of ePortfolios. The overall goal of this project is to increase the STEM degree completion of low-income, high- achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. There are three specific aims: 1) leverage existing high-impact, evidence-based processes already implemented on campus (such as ePortfolios and undergraduate research opportunities); 2) implement a cohesive multi-layer mentorship program to increase retention, student success, and graduation of scholars; 3) expand industry partnerships in association with workforce development programs to support the scholars’ academic and career opportunities with mentoring and internships. The high cost of attendance in the San Francisco Bay Area leads to high unmet financial needs, and leads students to seek part-time or full-time employment while they are in college. Little, however, is known about how combining specific practices, such as multi-tiered mentoring, ePortfolio adoption or participation in learning communities, can impact the retention and success of underrepresented minorities in STEM once financial barriers are lowered. Results of this project will be made available by presenting findings to other educators involved in STEM education at regional and national conferences, and leveraging existing dissemination infrastructure and channels. 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，支持高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，并证明在天际线学院有经济需求，这是一个为期两年的西班牙裔服务机构，位于硅谷，STEM创新的中心，有许多高需求的工作。在其5年的时间里，该项目将资助90个奖学金，至少30名学生谁是迈向副学士学位或转移到四年制大学，以获得生物学，生物技术，化学，计算机科学，工程，数学或物理学位。所有学生将获得长达三年的支持。除奖学金外，该项目还将采用变革性的指导方法，并提供旨在解决财务和学术障碍的创新支持。所有参与的学生将参与一套全面的循证联合课程服务，旨在支持他们的坚持，完成和转移。通过将财政援助与学术支持和导师指导相结合，该项目应增加STEM领域的学生人数，特别是来自代表性不足的群体的学生人数。教师导师将接受培训，学习创新和有效的方法来留住学生和取得成功，例如实施电子门户。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入，高成就的本科生与证明财政需要的STEM学位完成。有三个具体目标：1）利用现有的高影响力，以证据为基础的过程已经在校园实施（如ePortfolio和本科生的研究机会）; 2）实施一个有凝聚力的多层导师计划，以增加保留，学生的成功，和学者的毕业; 3）扩大与劳动力发展计划相关联的行业合作伙伴关系，以支持学者的学术和职业机会与指导和实习。在旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区的高出勤成本导致高未满足的财务需求，并导致学生寻求兼职或全职工作，而他们在大学。然而，很少有人知道如何结合具体的做法，如多层次的指导，电子组合的采用或参与学习社区，可以影响代表性不足的少数民族在STEM的保留和成功，一旦财政障碍降低。该项目的成果将通过在区域和国家会议上向参与STEM教育的其他教育工作者介绍研究结果，并利用现有的传播基础设施和渠道来提供。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。