HSI Institutional Transformation Project: Creating Opportunities for Minoritized Students to Participate in Faculty Mentored Research

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI)计划的支持下，这一Track 3机构转型项目(ITP)旨在建立以证据和公平为基础的研究培训中心ESTUDIO：加州州立大学北岭分校(CSUN)多元化倡议办公室的本科生卓越学生培训。ESTUDIO在西班牙语中的意思是“研究”或“研究”，它将使CSUN能够扩大本科生研究的高影响力实践(HIP)，并为学生创造参与这一HIP的机会，同时还将指导作为教师生活的一部分，支持导师的能力和专业发展。有明确的证据表明，在称职导师的指导下进行本科生研究可以支持所有学生的成功，并显著缩小或消除STEM中的公平差距。这项研究旨在结合数十年来与HIP的经验和文献中的证据，将EStudio创建为一个永久和可持续的校园实体，为CSUN STEM社区提供服务，该社区有大约6,000名小规模学生和500名教职员工。通过扩展、部署和测试基于证据的培训模块和证书的异步和同步基础设施，该项目以公平的理论基础为基础，旨在接触到大量从业者，弥合普遍和持久的公平差距，建立公平的指导能力，并传播内容和模式，以适当扩大和复制其他HSI的这些努力。具体目标是：1)扩大所有STEM本科生的研究水平；2)在教师留任和终身教职方面促进和集中基于公平的指导；3)使用理论构建，创造可供不同规模和方法的HSI采用的新知识和新模式。该项目旨在将ESTUDIO作为一个校园范围的实体共同创建，并扩展(至~80个)经过全面测试和有效的同步(面对面、在线和混合)本科STEM培训模块，并为CSUN的学生和教师导师创建基于公平的相关证书计划。大约40%的模块和证书将转换为在线、自适应和异步模式，以接触到广泛的受众并允许适当传播。这项工作将包括支持由四名教员开展的研究项目，他们是CSUN的新兴STEM和STEM教育学者。调查人员和教员还将共同研究机构层面的项目实施流程和衡量标准，以确定：1)具有最大影响力和可移植性的EStudio所需的最低可行版本；2)缩小教员期望与学生需求之间差距的有效方法；以及3)创建以学生为中心、以导师为导向的保留和晋升标准的途径。这项工作的更广泛的影响是催化CSUN的文化转变，这将成为其他HSI的典范，包括CSU系统中的几个HSI校区，为超过500,000名学生服务。这与NSFs HSI计划相一致，该计划旨在加强HSI的本科生STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program, this Track 3 Institutional Transformation Project (ITP) aims to establish the evidence- and equity-based research training hub ESTUDIO: Excellence in Student Training for Undergraduates, Diversity Initiative Office at the California State University, Northridge (CSUN). ESTUDIO – which means “a study” or “research” in Spanish – will allow CSUN to scale the high-impact practice (HIP) of undergraduate research and create opportunities for students to engage in this HIP, while also centering mentoring as part of faculty life and bolster capacity and professional development for mentors. The evidence is unequivocal that undergraduate research under competent mentorship can support the success of all students and significantly diminish or eliminate equity gaps in STEM. This study aims to combine decades-long experience with HIPs and evidence in the literature to create ESTUDIO as a permanent and sustainable campus-wide entity that serves the CSUN STEM community of ~6,000 minoritized students and 500 faculty. By expanding, deploying, and testing an asynchronous and synchronous infrastructure of evidence-based training modules and certificates rooted in an equitable theoretical foundation, this project aims to reach a large community of practitioners, close pervasive and persistent equity gaps, build equitable mentorship capacity, and disseminate content and models to appropriately scale and duplicate these efforts at other HSIs. The specific aims are to: 1) scale the HIP of research for all undergraduate STEM students; 2) promote and center equity-based mentorship in faculty retention and tenure; 3) using a theoretical construct, create new knowledge and models that can be adopted by HSIs of varying sizes and means. This project aims to co-create ESTUDIO at CSUN as a campus-wide entity and expand (to ~80) thoroughly tested and efficacious synchronous (in-person, online, and hybrid) undergraduate STEM training modules and to create equity-based and relevant certificate programs for CSUN students and faculty mentors. Approximately 40% of modules and certificates will be converted to an online, adaptive, and asynchronous modality to reach a broad audience and allow for appropriate dissemination. This work will involve support for research projects conducted by four faculty fellows who are emerging STEM and STEM education scholars at CSUN. Together, the investigators and faculty fellows will also study institutional level program implementation processes and metrics to determine: 1) the required minimum viable version of ESTUDIO with most impact and transportability; 2) effective approaches to reducing the gap between faculty expectations and students needs; and 3) the path to creating student-centered and mentorship-aligned retention and promotion criteria. The broader impact of this work is to catalyze a cultural shift at CSUN that will serve as a model for other HSIs, including several HSI campuses in the CSU system, serving over 500,000 students. This aligns with NSFs HSI Program, which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.