Planning: Academic Center of Excellence in STEM (ACES) through the Arts

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科生计划（HBCU-UP）为加强HBCUs的STEM本科教育和研究提供支持。使用美术和表演艺术作为STEM教学的工具，为吸引更广泛的本科生观众提供了机会。佛罗里达纪念大学旨在创新课程设计和制度变革，以增加STEM领域HBCU学生的招聘和保留。作为对综合艺术和STEM教学的进步的一步，这个规划项目汇集了一个合作的跨部门团队来执行一系列活动，通过艺术为STEM学术卓越中心的全面发展奠定基础。该项目旨在组建一个团队，为通过艺术教学STEM的无缝和有凝聚力的机构范式转变开辟有效途径。该规划项目与HBCU-UP计划的目标一致，即创造机会增加HBCU本科生在STEM领域的人数。该项目旨在共同设计一个计划，以确定最合适的艺术和STEM课程的整合和共同教学，探索将艺术和STEM教师配对的共同教学模式，以改进的教学法教授传统的STEM课程，确定在非数学/非化学课程中教授代数、微积分和化学概念的设计，并根据提高学生参与度的游戏化原则规划课程。学生的反馈将通过正式评估纳入计划。该项目符合该机构的统一沉浸式体验式学习计划，以增加准备好的，有竞争力的和就业准备的毕业生的数量，这些毕业生作为科学家，技术人员，工程师和数学家进入劳动力市场，或追求STEM研究生教育和研究事业。该机构旨在利用从规划活动中吸取的经验教训来制定实施提案提交。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provides support to strengthen STEM undergraduate education and research at HBCUs. Using the Fine and Performing Arts as vehicles for teaching STEM provides opportunities to engage a broader audience of undergraduate students. Florida Memorial University seeks to innovate curriculum design and institutional change to increase recruitment and retention of HBCU students in STEM fields. As a step towards the advancement of integrated Arts and STEM instruction, this planning project brings together a collaborative interdepartmental team to execute a set of activities to establish the foundation for full development of a Center for STEM Academic Excellence through the Arts. The project aims to assemble a team to unlock effective pathways for a seamless and cohesive institutional paradigm shift in teaching STEM through the Arts. This planning project aligns with the goals of the HBCU-UP program in building opportunities to increase the number of HBCU undergraduate students in STEM fields.This project aims to co-design a plan to identify the most appropriate Arts and STEM courses for integration and co-teaching, explore co-teaching models that pair Arts and STEM faculty for teaching traditional STEM courses with modified pedagogy, identify designs for teaching concepts of algebra, calculus, and chemistry in non-math/non-chemistry courses, and plan curriculum based on gamification principles that heighten student engagement. Student feedback will be incorporated in the plan through formal assessments. The project is consistent with the institution’s unified immersive experiential learning plan for increasing the number of prepared, competitive, and employment-ready graduates who enter the workforce as scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians or pursue STEM graduate education and research careers. The institution aims to use the lessons learned from the planning activities to develop an implementation proposal submission.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.