NSF INCLUDES Collaborative Change Consortia: Association of Collaborative Communities Ensuring Equity in Youth STEM+C Success (ACCEYSS)

NSF 包括协作变革联盟：确保青少年 STEM C 成功平等的协作社区协会 (ACCEYSS)

• 批准号: 2304197
• 负责人: Shetay Ashford-Hanserd
• 金额: $ 491.22万
• 依托单位: Texas State University - San Marcos
• 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: 2023-08-01 至 2028-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2304197&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Collaborative; Change; Consortia

During the Civil Rights Era, faith-based and grassroots organizations served as functional centers and community hubs intervening in social and political matters to assure and protect the civil rights of people of color. Since institutionalized racism and inequitable access to quality education still exists among historically underrepresented minorities (HURM) and women, faith-based and grassroots organizations can play a significant role in improving educational equity (access, participation, outcomes) for youth and girls of color in K-16 STEM and computing (STEM+C) education. The Association of Collaborative Communities ensuring Equity in Youth STEM+C Success (ACCEYSS) is an NSF INCLUDES Collaborative Change Consortia project led by Texas State University (TXST) in collaboration with the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI). The consortium leverages NBCI’s national network of 150,000 faith-based institutions and its population of 6 million children to broaden participation of youth and girls of color in underserved communities in two states, Texas and Florida. Both are considered U.S. mega states as they educate nearly 15% of all historically marginalized students enrolled in U.S. public schools and have the highest percentages of low-income and diverse learners in the nation. ACCEYSS is well positioned to improve low-income Black and Hispanic (BH) youth and girls’ access and participation in the K-12 STEM+C education pipeline while in middle school (grades 6-8) and entry into postsecondary STEM+C degree programs in Texas and Florida. This work informs best practice interventions to increase HURM access, and participation in rigorous course-taking in middle school, high school, and postsecondary STEM+C degree programs across the U.S. This project builds upon the NSF INCLUDES DDLP: ACCEYSS - Association of Collaborative Communities Equipping Youth for STEM Success (1764404) and NSF CAREER: Effects of Community Cultural Wealth on Black and Hispanic Women in the P-20 Computing Workforce Pipeline in Texas (2046079). ACCEYSS is grounded in evidence that faith-based institutions are critical assets for broadening participation of youth and girls of color. Since the Civil Rights Era, faith-based institutions have been uniquely poised to motivate and galvanize their congregations and constituents to drive action towards economic and social change in communities of color. Community-engaged institutions of higher education, such as TXST, have also served as conduits of change since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Most notably, TXST alumnus President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the hallmark Higher Education Act of 1965 at his alma mater, which increased educational access for low-income students of color. ACCYESS adapts and integrates these models to advance STEM diversity. ACCYESS leverages faith-based institutions as historically significant structures to drive collaborative systems change in the U.S. K-16 STEM+C education pipeline. Complementing work traditionally done in formal educational settings, the new understandings gained through ACCYESS’ research will inform on the social processes through which BH experience and persist in STEM+C contexts and the role that modern religious entities can play in STEM+C education for BH youth.This 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, which seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to advance and sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM at scale.  This award is also supported by the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) program, which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs.  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.

在民权时代，以信仰为基础的基层组织充当了干预社会和政治事务的职能中心和社区枢纽，以确保和保护有色人种的公民权利。由于在历史上代表性不足的少数民族（HURM）和妇女中仍然存在制度化的种族主义和获得优质教育的不公平现象，基于信仰和基层组织可以在改善K-16 STEM和计算（STEM+C）教育中有色人种青年和女孩的教育公平（机会，参与，成果）方面发挥重要作用。协作社区协会确保青年STEM+C成功的公平性（ACCEYSS）是由德克萨斯州州立大学（TXST）与国家黑人教会倡议（NBCI）合作领导的NSF INCLUDES协作变革联盟项目。该联盟利用NBCI的15万个信仰机构和600万儿童的全国网络，扩大德克萨斯州和佛罗里达两个州服务不足社区的有色人种青年和女孩的参与。这两个州都被认为是美国的大州，因为它们教育了近15%的美国公立学校历史上被边缘化的学生，并且拥有全国最高的低收入和多元化学习者比例。ACCEYSS有能力改善低收入黑人和西班牙裔（BH）青年和女孩在中学（6-8年级）和进入德克萨斯州和佛罗里达的中学后STEM+C学位课程时获得和参与K-12 STEM+C教育管道。这项工作通知最佳实践干预措施，以增加HURM的访问，并参与美国各地的中学，高中和中学后STEM+C学位课程的严格课程。社区文化财富对黑人和西班牙裔妇女在得克萨斯州的P-20计算劳动力管道的影响（2046079）。ACCEYSS的基础是证据表明，基于信仰的机构是扩大有色人种青年和女孩参与的关键资产。自民权时代以来，以信仰为基础的机构一直以独特的姿态激励和激励他们的会众和选民，推动有色人种社区的经济和社会变革。自1964年《民权法案》以来，社区参与的高等教育机构，如TXST，也成为变革的渠道。最值得注意的是，TXST校友总裁林登B。约翰逊在他的阿尔马母校签署了1965年标志性的《高等教育法》，该法案增加了有色人种低收入学生的教育机会。ACCYESS对这些模型进行了调整和整合，以促进STEM多样性。ACCYESS利用基于信仰的机构作为具有历史意义的结构，推动美国K-16 STEM+C教育管道的协作系统变革。补充传统上在正规教育环境中进行的工作，通过ACCYESS的研究获得的新认识将为BH在STEM+C环境中经历和坚持的社会过程以及现代宗教实体在STEM+中发挥的作用提供信息该项目由NSF的Eddie伯尼采约翰逊在全国范围内为工程学中代表性不足的发现者的学习者社区提供资金和科学（包括）倡议，旨在激励和加速协作基础设施建设，以推进和维持系统性变革，以扩大对STEM的大规模参与。该奖项还得到了改善本科STEM教育的支持：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）计划，该奖项旨在加强本科生STEM教育和培养HSI的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过评估被认为值得支持使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。