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

在民权时代，以信仰为基础的基层组织是介入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群体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，基于信仰的组织和基层组织可以在改善K-16 STEM和计算机(STEM+C)教育中的有色人种青年和女孩的教育公平(机会、参与、结果)方面发挥重要作用。确保青年STEM+C成功公平的合作社区协会(ACCEYSS)是一个NSF包括合作变革联盟的项目，由德克萨斯州立大学(TXST)与全国黑人教会倡议(NBCI)合作领导。该联盟利用NBCI由150,000个基于信仰的机构组成的全国网络和其600万儿童人口，扩大德克萨斯州和佛罗里达州两个州服务不足社区的青年和有色人种女孩的参与。这两个州都被认为是美国的特大州，因为它们在美国公立学校招收的所有历史上被边缘化的学生中，有近15%接受教育，而且这两个州的低收入和多样化学习者的比例是全国最高的。ACCEYSS处于有利地位，可以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州的中学后STEM+C学位课程期间获得和参与K-12 STEM+C教育渠道的机会和参与。这项工作为最佳实践干预措施提供了信息，以增加全美初中、高中和中学后STEM+C学位课程的严格课程获取和参与。该项目建立在美国国家科学基金会的基础上，包括：ACCEYSS-为青年装备STEM成功的协作社区协会(1764404)和美国国家科学基金会职业生涯：社区文化财富对德克萨斯州P-20计算劳动力管道中黑人和西班牙裔女性的影响(2046079)。ACCEYSS的依据是有证据表明，以信仰为基础的机构是扩大青年和有色人种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其会众和选民，推动有色人种社区的经济和社会变革。社区参与的高等教育机构，如TXST，自1964年《民权法案》以来也一直是变革的渠道。最值得注意的是，TXST校友总裁林登·B·约翰逊在他的母校签署了1965年标志性的《高等教育法案》，该法案增加了低收入有色人种学生的受教育机会。ACCYESS对这些模型进行了调整和整合，以促进STEM多样性。ACCEESS利用以信仰为基础的机构作为具有历史意义的结构，推动美国K-16 STEM+C教育管道中的协作系统变革。作为对传统正规教育工作的补充，ACCYESS的研究获得了新的理解，将通过BH在STEM+C背景下体验和坚持的社会过程以及现代宗教实体在BH年轻人的STEM+C教育中扮演的角色提供信息。该项目由NSF的埃迪·伯尼斯·约翰逊在全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的社区学习社区(INCLUDE)倡议资助，该倡议旨在激励和加速协作基础设施建设，以推动和维持系统变革，以扩大对STEM的大规模参与。该奖项还得到了改进的本科STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI)计划的支持，这一奖项反映了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。

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.