Implementation Project: Establishing a Cohesive Community College STEM-Institutional Transformation Academy (STEM-UP Academy Phase III)

实施项目：建立有凝聚力的社区学院STEM-机构转型学院（STEM-UP学院第三期）

• 批准号: 2306489
• 负责人: Willa Russell
• 金额: $ 225万
• 依托单位: Hinds Community College-Utica
• 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: 2023-07-15 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2306489&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Project; Establishing; Cohesive; Community

Implementation Projects provide support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to design, implement, study, and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This project at Hinds Community College - Utica seeks to address persistence in STEM fields. Diversity in STEM is compounded by barriers to educational equity, resources, and socioeconomic disparities impacting the African-American community. The goal of this project is to increase students’ completion of degrees in STEM by developing bridges that support students’ matriculation at each educational level. This project aims to support the critical transitions from K-12 to 4-year institutions. Prior projects concentrated on building infrastructure; this project seeks to improve recruitment and retention, enhance student research experiences, advance innovative teaching and learning techniques, and increase globally-engaged workforces supporting persistence. Faculty and staff will engage in career enhancements key to the successful implementation of STEM and Career Technical pathways. This project is significant in its focus on developing persistence and higher degree attainment for HBCU students entering a community college.Participants will include students, faculty, and staff of the institution's STEM and Career Technical pathways, collaborating institutions, and partners in the six (6) links and transitions. As students transition to community college, they undergo a two-week Student Success Camp (SSC) preparing for college courses in a Summer Bridge Program (SBP). They will enroll in STEM courses during the SBP and earn STEM-UP Academy Cohort Status (with a 3.0 GPA). This status makes them eligible for 2-year financial aid to complete a STEM associate’s degree. After the second semester, they are encouraged to engage in Summer Research programs or internships at 4-year universities and specified government or industrial STEM laboratories. They will submit research abstracts and contribute to an intervention study on the effects of students’ Academy experience. Lastly, two-year colleges will form 4-year college linkages, advancing research and collaborative forums as national models for joint efforts. Future redesign of curriculums for K-12, community colleges, and 4-year institutions is posed as a logical nexus resulting from a blend of research and workforce experiences. This project may serve as a model for enhancing persistence rates in STEM at community colleges.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.

实施项目为历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）提供支持，以设计，实施，研究和评估全面的机构努力，通过加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究来增加学生人数和他们的准备质量。在Hinds社区学院-尤蒂卡的这个项目旨在解决STEM领域的持久性问题。STEM的多样性因教育公平，资源和影响非裔美国人社区的社会经济差异的障碍而加剧。该项目的目标是通过建立桥梁，支持学生在每个教育级别的入学，提高学生完成STEM学位的人数。该项目旨在支持从K-12到4年制机构的关键过渡。以前的项目集中在基础设施建设上;该项目旨在改善招聘和保留，增强学生的研究经验，推进创新的教学和学习技术，并增加支持持久性的全球参与的劳动力。教师和工作人员将从事职业提升的关键成功实施干和职业技术途径。该项目是在其重点发展的持久性和更高的学位获得HBCU学生进入社区学院的重要.参与者将包括学生，教师，和机构的STEM和职业技术途径的工作人员，合作机构，并在六（6）链接和过渡的合作伙伴.当学生过渡到社区大学时，他们将参加为期两周的学生成功营（SSC），为夏桥项目（SBP）的大学课程做准备。他们将在SBP期间参加STEM课程，并获得STEM-UP学院队列状态（GPA为3.0）。这种状态使他们有资格获得2年的财政援助，以完成STEM副学士学位。第二学期后，鼓励他们在4年制大学和指定的政府或工业STEM实验室从事暑期研究计划或实习。他们将提交研究摘要，并有助于对学生的学院经验的影响干预研究。最后，两年制学院将形成4年制学院联系，推进研究和合作论坛，作为共同努力的国家模式。未来重新设计的K-12，社区学院和4年制机构的课程构成了一个逻辑的联系，从研究和劳动力的经验相结合。该项目可以作为提高社区大学STEM持续率的典范。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。