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（HBCU）提供了支持，以设计，实施，研究和评估全面的机构努力，以通过加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究来增加学生的数量以及增加学生的数量和准备质量。该项目在Hinds社区学院 - 尤蒂卡（Utica）寻求解决STEM领域的持久性。 STEM中的多样性构成了影响非裔美国人社区的教育公平，资源和社会经济差异的障碍。该项目的目的是通过开发在每个教育水平上支持学生矩阵的桥梁来提高学生在STEM中的学位。该项目旨在支持从K-12到4年机构的关键过渡。先前的项目集中在建筑基础设施上；该项目旨在改善招聘和保留率，增强学生的研究经验，提高创新的教学技术，并增加全球涉及的劳动力，以支持持久性。教师和教职员工将从事成功实施STEM和职业技术途径的关键。该项目的重点是发展社区学院的HBCU学生的持久性和更高的学位成就。参与者将包括该机构的STEM和职业技术途径的学生，教职员工以及六（6）个链接的合作伙伴的机构和职业技术途径，合作伙伴。当学生过渡到社区学院时，他们参加了为期两周的学生成功训练营（SSC），为夏季桥梁计划（SBP）的大学课程做准备。他们将在SBP期间参加STEM课程，并赢得STEM-UP Academy队列的身份（3.0 GPA）。他们使他们有资格获得2年的经济援助来完成STEM副学士学位。第二学期结束后，鼓励他们在4年大学参与夏季研究计划或国际船只，并指定政府或工业STEM实验室。他们将提交研究摘要，并为学生学院经验的影响做出贡献。最后，为期两年的大学将形成4年的大学联系，推进研究和协作论坛作为共同努力的国家模式。 K-12，社区学院和4年机构的课程的未来重新设计定位为逻辑上的联系，这是由研究和劳动力经验融合而成的。该项目可以作为提高社区大学STEM持续率的模型。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被视为通过评估来获得珍贵的支持。