HSI Planning Project: CSUN START

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该轨道1项目旨在通过消除文化和制度障碍来提高STEM转学生第一年的经验质量。两年制院校是历史上代表性不足和服务不足的群体，如拉丁裔，低收入和第一代大学生，特别是在转移到西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），如加州州立大学，北岭（CSUN），其中超过一半的新生是第一次转移高等教育的关键切入点。然而，大多数转学到四年制大学的学生将经历“文化不匹配”或“转移冲击”，即与中产阶级背景相一致的文化规范和价值观的转变将导致学术归属感，表现和持久性降低，特别是对于STEM专业的学生。迫切需要确定邀请，保留和支持历史上代表性不足和服务不足的STEM转学学生进行制度和文化转型的做法。如果不加以解决，本科生研究和STEM劳动力参与率将仍然很低，在代表性，但往往被忽视的历史上代表性不足和服务不足的STEM转学生人口。目前的项目旨在（1）重新开发现有的STEM研讨会到过渡夏季，第一年转学经验实验室课程（UNIV 396）和（2）测试文化响应实验室课程修改相对于控制课程在提高学生科学成果和持久性方面的有效性。该项目的结果将帮助HSI确定最适合帮助一年级转学生过渡到大学的可定制计划元素。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。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知识价值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 1 project aims to enhance the quality of first-year experiences among STEM transfer students by removing cultural and institutional barriers. Two-year institutions are key entry points to higher education for historically underrepresented and underserved groups such as Latinx, low-income, and first-generation college students, particularly in transferring to Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) like California State University, Northridge (CSUN) where over half of incoming students are first-time transfers. However, the majority of transfer students who go on to a 4-year institution will experience “cultural mismatch” or “transfer shock” whereby a shift in cultural norms and values aligned with middle-class contexts will lead to reduced academic belonging, performance and persistence, particularly for students in STEM majors. There is an urgent need to identify practices that invite, retain, and support historically underrepresented and underserved STEM transfer students undergoing institutional and cultural transition. If unaddressed, undergraduate research and STEM workforce participation will remain low among the representative yet often overlooked historically underrepresented and underserved STEM transfer student population.The current project aims to (1) redevelop existing STEM workshops into bridging summer, first-year transfer experience lab courses (UNIV 396) and (2) test the effectiveness of culturally responsive lab course modifications relative to control courses in improving student science outcomes and persistence. Results of this project will aid HSIs in identifying customizable program elements best suited for aiding first-year transfer students in their transition to university. The HSI Program 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.