HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Latinidad STEM Program

在“改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构”（HSI项目）的支持下，该第二轨项目旨在在新墨西哥州立大学（NMSU）建立一个指导计划，该HSI为大量墨西哥裔美国学生（也称为拉丁裔）提供服务。HSI实施和评估项目：Latinidad：通过STEM项目的指导和研究实践改变拉丁裔大学体验将是教师，研究人员，研究生和本科生之间的联盟。我们的目标是建立社区-一种家庭式的关系，通过学术，情感，导航和社会文化支持提供相互的成长，发展和成功。该项目将支持代表性不足的STEM本科生的学术旅程，以扩大他们的网络，并与其他学生和教师建立社区，特别是在工程、计算机科学和数学等STEM项目中代表性不足的少数族裔学生（包括拉丁裔学生）的代表性较低的地方。该计划将为本科生提供一个机会，在教师和研究生的指导下参与研究活动。指导部分和研究参与将有助于增加代表性不足的学生攻读研究生学位的人数，从而改善代表性不足的教师的代表性。该项目旨在探索指导经验对STEM中代表性不足的本科生的影响，这些本科生试图找到榜样、职业指导、与文化相关的方法和学术/科学身份。研究问题将涉及：本科生如何通过Latinidad STEM项目参与指导，帮助塑造他们在教育和职业道路方面的短期和长期目标？通过Latinidad STEM项目参与研究活动的本科生如何影响他们作为科学家的看法？通过混合方法，领导团队将使用调查、访谈、观察、持续参与者反馈和评估团队报告来帮助回答研究问题并为决策提供信息。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。

HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Latinidad: Transforming Latinx College Experiences through Mentoring and Research Practices in STEMWith support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2 project aims to establish a mentoring program at New Mexico State University (NMSU), an HSI that serves a large population of Mexican American students, also known as Latinx. The HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Latinidad: Transforming Latinx College Experiences through Mentoring and Research Practices in STEM program will be an alliance between faculty, researchers, graduate, and undergraduate students. Our goal is to build community – a family-type relationship that provides reciprocal growth, development, and success through academic, emotional, navigational, and socio-cultural support. The program will support underrepresented undergraduate STEM students in their academic journeys to expand their network and build community with other students and faculty, especially where representation of underrepresented minority students including Latinx in STEM programs such as engineering, computer science, and mathematics is low. The program will provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to be involved in research activities guided by faculty and graduate students. The mentoring component and research involvement will contribute to the increase in the number of underrepresented students pursuing graduate degrees, thereby improving underrepresented faculty representation. The project aims to explore the impact of mentoring experiences on underrepresented undergraduate students in STEM who try to find role models, career guidance, culturally relevant approaches, and academic/science identity. The research questions will address: How does the participation of undergraduate students in mentoring through the Latinidad STEM program help shape their short and long-term goals concerning their educational and career paths? How does the involvement of undergraduate students in research activities through the Latinidad STEM program influence their perception as scientists? Through a mixed methods approach, the leadership team will use surveys, interviews, observations, ongoing participant feedback, and evaluation team reporting to help respond to research questions and inform decisions. 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.