Conference: Developing Effective Tools for Leading Sustainable Campus Culture Change in Hispanic-Serving Institutions to Eliminate Equity Gaps in STEM

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，本次会议提案旨在创建和验证机构自我评估，以告知HSI校园学术领导，因为他们领导文化变革，以增加STEM课程和项目中成功学生的数量。这项工作将创造一个独特的工具，帮助校园领导者了解他们可以采取的步骤，以确保他们的校园文化真正支持西班牙裔学生的成功。这项工作的影响将增加不同学生在STEM职业中的学业成功，这反映了国家人口结构。基于两年的深入研究，我们确定并验证了校园文化变革所需的四个杠杆，以消除学生成功的平等差距。国家高等教育管理系统中心（NCHEMS）计划创建与这些杠杆相关的校园级自我评估工具，以允许hsi的校园领导者了解并与机构利益相关者分享他们在支持STEM领域的西班牙裔学生方面做得如何。此外，学术领袖的召集将为他们提供一个空间，以确定解决公平STEM学术成功所需的政策和实践。每组5名HSI校长（一名来自社区学院，另一名来自四年制学院和大学）中的个人将共同帮助研究人员评估工具的实际应用，并允许他们为其他学院/大学的领导者创建可用的资源。这些工具将使新加入HSI的领导者有一个起点，重新定位校园社区，使学生在STEM领域取得更大的成功。该方法是基于过去开发校园自我评估工具的成功实践。这些工具将通过恒生指数领导人聚集的会长协会传播。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this conference proposal aims to create and validate institutional self-assessments to inform HSI campus academic leadership, as they lead culture change to increase the numbers of successful students in STEM courses and programs. This work will create a unique tool to help campus leaders understand the steps they can take to assure their campus’ culture really supports Hispanic students’ success. The impact of this work will increase the academic success of diverse students in STEM careers that is reflective of national demographics.Based on two years of in-depth research, four levers for campus culture change needed to remove equity gaps for student success were identified and validated. The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) plans to create campus-level self-assessment tools related to those levers to allow campus leaders at HSIs, to understand and share with institutional stakeholders how well they are doing in supporting Hispanic students in STEM fields. In addition, the convening of academic leaders will provide a space for them to identify the policies and practices needed to address equitable STEM academic success. Individuals within two groups of five HSI presidents each (one from community colleges, the other from four-year colleges and universities) will work together to help the researchers evaluate the practical application of the tools and allow them to create useable resources for other colleges/university leaders. The tools will enable leaders who are new to the HSI designation to have a starting place to reorient the campus community toward greater student success in STEM fields. The methodology is based on past successful practices in developing campus self-assessment tools. The tools will be disseminated through presidential associations where HSI leaders gather. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.