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

在民权运动时期，信仰组织和基层组织作为功能中心和社区中心，参与社会和政治事务，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机会，信仰组织和基层组织可以在改善有色人种青年和女孩在K-16 STEM和计算机（STEM+C）教育中的教育公平（机会、参与和结果）方面发挥重要作用。确保青少年STEM+C成功公平的合作社区协会（ACCEYSS）是由德克萨斯州立大学（TXST）与全国黑人教会倡议（NBCI）合作领导的NSF INCLUDES合作变革联盟项目。该联盟利用NBCI由15万个信仰机构组成的全国网络及其600万儿童人口，在德克萨斯州和佛罗里达州两个州服务不足的社区扩大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，因为它们在美国公立学校招收的历史上被边缘化的学生中，有近15%是由它们教育的，而且它们的低收入和多元化学习者的比例也是全美最高的。ACCEYSS在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）获得和参与K-12 STEM+C教育管道以及进入德克萨斯州和佛罗里达州的中学后STEM+C学位课程方面处于有利地位。这项工作提供了最佳实践干预措施，以增加HURM的访问，并参与初中，高中和高等教育STEM+C学位课程的严格课程。该项目建立在NSF的基础上，包括DDLP: ACCEYSS -协作社区协会为STEM成功装备青年（1764404）和NSF职业：社区文化财富对德克萨斯州P-20计算劳动力管道中的黑人和西班牙裔妇女的影响（2046079）。ACCEYSS的基础是有证据表明，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在激励和激励其会众和选民推动有色人种社区的经济和社会变革方面一直处于独特的地位。自1964年《民权法案》（Civil Rights Act）以来，社区参与的高等教育机构，如TXST，也一直是变革的渠道。最值得注意的是，TXST的校友林登·约翰逊（Lyndon B. Johnson）总统在他的母校签署了标志性的1965年《高等教育法》（Higher Education Act），增加了低收入有色人种学生接受教育的机会。access适应并整合了这些模型，以促进STEM的多样性。ACCYESS利用基于信仰的机构作为历史上重要的结构来推动美国K-16 STEM+C教育管道的协作系统变革。通过accessess的研究获得的新理解将补充传统上在正规教育环境中所做的工作，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BH青年STEM+C教育中可以发挥的作用提供信息。该项目由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的埃迪·伯尼斯·约翰逊（Eddie Bernice Johnson）资助，该计划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，扩大STEM的大规模参与。该奖项还得到了“改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构”（HSI）计划的支持，该计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并在HSI建立能力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.