Collaborative Planning Grant: Building Northwest Psychology Partnerships and Pathways for Talented Low-Income Psychology Students

该项目将有助于国家需要受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员，通过加强合作和规划未来的轨道3 S-STEM提案，该提案将支持传统大学，西俄勒冈州大学和俄勒冈州州立大学的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业。传统大学和西俄勒冈州大学的优秀低收入学生为他们的教育经历带来了独特的社区和文化联系。心理学在美国是一个很受欢迎的STEM专业，尽管一些低收入、高潜力的学生一开始并不认为自己是“科学家”，但他们被这门学科吸引的原因有很多。通常情况下，他们高度投资于应用研究设计，统计，人类思维和行为的基本，可转移的技能，以解决与他们的社区有关的问题，包括与环境和气候科学有关的问题。该项目将研究潜在学者的需求，并发展跨机构和社区伙伴关系，以制定适当的方案和支持，以纳入未来的轨道3提案。该项目的总体目标是加强合作，并为未来的轨道3提案做好准备，以提高低收入，高成就的本科生的STEM学位完成率。该项目有三个主要目标：1）利用和扩大三所高等教育机构之间现有的和新的联系; 2）加强与有才华的低收入学生成功相关的社区团体的伙伴关系; 3）确定潜在学者的具体需求，强调他们的独特优势。具体目标包括与财政援助合作，以了解各地的经济需求有多高，举办文化上知情的焦点小组，从低收入，高潜力的学生那里收集他们的需求和目标的信息，与俄勒冈州立大学的STEM学习研究中心合作，制定以未来学者为中心的研究计划;并与西俄勒冈州大学的评估中心协商制定评估计划。在传统大学、西俄勒冈州大学和俄勒冈州州立大学，奖前补助金支持、文化顾问和其他校园合作伙伴将协助规划高质量轨道3 S-STEM提案所需的组件。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。

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by strengthening collaborations and planning for a future Track 3 S-STEM proposal that would support the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Heritage University, Western Oregon University, and Oregon State University. Talented low-income students at Heritage University and Western Oregon University bring unique community and cultural connections to their educational experiences. Psychology is a popular STEM major across the U.S., and although some low-income, high potential students do not at first think of themselves as “scientists”, they are attracted to the discipline for many reasons. Often, they are highly invested in applying the fundamental, transferable skills in research design, statistics, human thinking and behavior to problems related to their communities, including problems related to environmental and climate science. This project will examine the needs of potential scholars and develop cross-institution and community partnerships in order to develop appropriate programs and supports to be integrated into a future Track 3 proposal. The overall goal of this project is to strengthen collaborations and prepare for a future Track 3 proposal to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project has 3 main goals: 1) leveraging and expanding existing and new connections among the three higher education institutions; 2) strengthening partnerships with community groups relevant to the success of talented, low-income students; and 3) identifying the specific needs of potential scholars with an emphasis on their unique strengths. Specific aims include collaborating with financial aid to understand how high financial need is determined across sites, holding culturally informed focus groups to gather information from low income, high potential students on their needs and goals, collaborating with the STEM Learning research center at OSU to develop a plan for research centered on the population of prospective scholars; and developing an evaluation plan in consultation with the evaluation center at Western Oregon University. Pre-award grant support, cultural consultants, and other campus partners at Heritage University, Western Oregon University, and Oregon State University will assist in the planning of components necessary for a quality Track 3 S-STEM proposal. 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.