HSI Planning Project: Undergraduate Institutions Developing Opportunities in STEM (UNIDOS)

HSI 规划项目：本科院校发展 STEM 机会 (UNIDOS)

• 批准号: 2317748
• 负责人: Kelly Trujillo
• 金额: $ 39.97万
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2317748&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Planning; Project; Undergraduate; Institutions

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to broaden the participation of historically underrepresented populations centered around two proximate Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Santa Fe Community College and Northern New Mexico College. The Undergraduate Institutions Developing Opportunities in STEM (UNIDOS) project will build upon relationships with regional partners, from both the public and private sectors, to provide educational training opportunities for local youth in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). These activities are designed to embrace cultural values and traditions and honors the wealth of knowledge from Indigenous and Hispanic populations. Based upon an active and collaborative exploration of community needs and anticipated vocational gaps in the regional STEM workforce, partners will develop and modify STEM degree and certificate programs and address the holistic needs of matriculating students to promote student academic success and STEM career readiness.The UNIDOS model predicts that the significant challenges underrepresented students face are best addressed when entities that share common goals work together. To this end, the project will establish a STEM Advisory Council, composed of representatives from both the public and private STEM workforce, STEM education advocate groups, professionals, educators, and college administrators. Generating a collaborative relationship with valued community partners is expected to generate vocational opportunities for students, including internship experiences that will enhance the job readiness for underrepresented individuals entering the STEM workforce. Additionally, UNIDOS will provide educational training opportunities in STEM for local youth to stimulate interest in STEM education/careers, facilitate student matriculation into college, and promote STEM degree program participation/completion. Partnering institutions will engage with private entities to develop curricula for participating youth that introduces them to culturally relevant careers/research in science and enables students to develop a STEM identity that does not conflict with their cultural values and traditions. STEM faculty will play a major role in delivering the curricula, and together with professional development opportunities designed to identify and rectify inequitable teaching practices and mitigate language barriers, will generate a STEM learning atmosphere that is inclusive and celebrates students’ wealth of cultural knowledge. Through these efforts, enhanced diversity in STEM education will generate a workforce with a broad knowledge base, which can function to stimulate innovation fueled by collective experiences and an inclusive spirit of collaboration over competition. 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.

在改善的本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该曲目1项目旨在扩大历史上代表性不足的人群的参与，这些人群的参与度围绕两个接近西班牙裔西班牙裔服务机构（HSIS）（HSIS），Santa Fe Community College和New New Mexico College。本科机构开发STEM（UNIDOS）项目的机会将建立在与公共和私营部门的区域合作伙伴的关系基础上，为科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的当地青年提供教育培训机会。这些活动旨在拥抱文化价值观和传统，并尊重来自土著和西班牙裔人口的丰富知识。基于对社区需求的积极和协作的探索，并在区域性STEM劳动力中进行了预期的选民差距，合作伙伴将开发和修改STEM学位和证书课程，并满足成熟学生的整体需求，以促进学生的学术成就和STEM职业就绪。为此，该项目将建立一个STEM咨询委员会，由公共和私人STEM劳动力，STEM教育倡导者团体，专业人士，教育工作者和大学管理人员组成。预计与有价值的社区合作伙伴建立合作关系将为学生带来选民机会，包括实习经验，这些经验将增强进入STEM劳动力的人数不足的人的工作准备。此外，Unidos将为STEM提供教育培训机会，以激发对STEM教育/职业的兴趣，促进学生矩阵进入大学，并促进STEM学位课程的参与/完成。合作机构将与私人实体互动，为参与年轻人开发课程，向他们介绍与文化相关的职业/科学研究，并使学生能够发展出与他们的文化价值和传统不冲突的STEM身份。 STEM教师将在提供课程中发挥重要作用，并与旨在识别和纠正不平等教学实践和减轻语言障碍的专业发展机会一起，将产生一种具有包容性的STEM学习氛围，并庆祝学生的文化知识丰富。通过这些努力，增强的STEM教育多样性将产生一个具有广泛知识基础的劳动力，这可以刺激创新因集体经验和在竞争中的合作精神而引起的创新。 HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育并在HSIS的建立能力。 HSI计划支持的项目还将为如何实现这些目标提供新的知识。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标准来通过评估来诚实地获得支持。