INCLUDES DDLP: UL-ASSIST: University-Led Action on Student and Systemic Inequities in STEM Transfer

包括 DDLP：UL-ASSIST：大学主导的针对 STEM 转学中学生和系统性不平等的行动

• 批准号: 2303986
• 负责人: Peter Plavchan
• 金额: $ 55.68万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2303986&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: INCLUDES; DDLP; UL; ASSIST; University

The University-Led Action on Student and Systemic Inequities in STEM Transfer (UL-ASSIST) project is funded by NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative as a Design and Development Launch Pilot (DDLP). The INCLUDES Initiative seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to advance and sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM at scale. DDLPs explore new strategies and models for collaborative approaches to broadening participation in STEM. The goal of UL-ASSIST is to increase access to STEM graduate school and employment pathways for community college students who transfer to four-year institutions. More than half of U.S. students begin their college careers in America’s community colleges, and there is strong intersectionality between community college and underserved and minoritized populations. Multiple studies indicate that transfer students who successfully complete STEM baccalaureate degrees lag in the attainment of their post-baccalaureate academic and professional goals. Investment in career readiness for STEM transfer students is a key strategy to aid in the development of STEM professional identity, and to address national participation and workforce challenges. UL-ASSIST’s pilot framework serves as a strong foundation for testing and expansion of promising practices that can be leveraged, replicated, and scaled regionally and nationally. UL-ASSIST provides a holistic approach to increasing participation among community college transfer students in STEM and advancing pathways to graduate study, STEM-sector employment, and career equity.UL-ASSIST’s transfer-focused intervention model is grounded in nearly two decades of research, including high impact practices and development of STEM professional identity. The UL-ASSIST initiative addresses structural obstacles in the two-to-four year college transition by 1) increasing access to, and completion of multiple STEM undergraduate research experiences through a three-part bridge to research model that includes course-based research and mentored research by university faculty trained in transfer-informed multi-mentorship approaches, 2) mitigating gaps in STEM career knowledge by community college students and advisors through targeted professional development to community college STEM faculty and student services professionals that will enhance the quality of early career advising provided to community college students, and 3) supporting STEM professional identity-building and sector-specific career readiness of community college transfer students, which will increase access to post-baccalaureate outcomes such as graduate study and STEM-sector employment. The UL-ASSIST pilot tests six targeted interventions. Three are student-focused and three address higher education systems. Needs-assessment and intervention frameworks, results, and lessons learned are amplified through a UL-ASSIST Symposium to engage and inform project stakeholders and regional and national institutions. Additionally, UL-ASSIST regularly engages with the INCLUDES National Network to share formative, summative, and post-initiative learnings and outcomes.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.

大学主导的STEM转移中的学生和系统性不平等行动(UL-ASSISE)项目由美国国家科学基金会的埃迪·伯尼斯·约翰逊作为设计和开发启动试点(DDLP)倡议(INCLUDE)作为设计和开发启动试点(DDLP)提供资金。Includes倡议旨在激励和加快协作基础设施建设，以推进和维持系统性变革，扩大对STEM的规模参与。发展筹资伙伴关系探索新的战略和模式，采用协作办法扩大对科技、经济和经济管理的参与。UL-Assistate的目标是为转到四年制院校的社区大学学生提供更多进入STEM研究生院的机会和就业途径。超过一半的美国学生在美国的社区大学开始他们的大学生涯，社区大学与服务不足和小规模的人口之间存在着很强的交叉性。多项研究表明，成功完成STEM学士学位的转学学生在完成学士学位后的学术和职业目标方面存在滞后。对STEM转校生的职业准备进行投资是帮助STEM职业认同感发展以及应对国家参与和劳动力挑战的关键战略。UL-Assisted的试点框架为测试和推广有前景的做法奠定了坚实的基础，这些做法可以在区域和国家范围内加以利用、复制和推广。UL-Assistate提供了一种全面的方法来增加社区大学转学学生在STEM中的参与度，并推进毕业学习、STEM部门就业和职业平等的途径。UL-Assistate以转学为重点的干预模式建立在近20年的研究基础上，包括高影响力的实践和STEM职业认同的发展。UL-Assistate计划通过以下方式解决两到四年大学过渡中的结构性障碍：1)通过三部分研究模式增加获得和完成多个STEM本科生研究经验的机会，其中包括由接受过转移知情多导师方法培训的大学教员进行的基于课程的研究和指导研究；2)通过对社区学院STEM教员和学生服务专业人员的有针对性的专业发展，缓解社区学院STEM教师和学生服务专业人员在STEM职业知识方面的差距，这将提高向社区大学学生提供早期职业咨询的质量；以及3)支持STEM专业身份建设和社区大学转学学生针对特定行业的职业准备，这将增加获得研究生学习和STEM部门就业等毕业后成果的机会。UL辅助试验测试了六种有针对性的干预措施。三个是以学生为中心，三个是针对高等教育系统。通过UL协助研讨会，扩大需求评估和干预框架、结果和经验教训，以吸引项目利益攸关方以及区域和国家机构并向其提供信息。此外，UL-Assisted定期与Includes National Network合作，分享形成性、总结性和倡议后的学习和成果。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。