Providing Aid to Support STEM Success for Talented, Low-Income Students

为有才华的低收入学生提供 STEM 成功支持

• 批准号: 2321667
• 负责人: Melissa Danforth
• 金额: $ 247.22万
• 依托单位: CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-01 至 2030-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321667&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Providing; Aid; Support; STEM; Success

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB). CSUB carries designations as both a Minority-Serving Institution and Hispanic-Serving Institution. Over its 6-year duration, this project will fund scholarships of up to $15,000 per year to 54 unique full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, engineering, engineering sciences, geology, mathematics, and/or physics. Lower-division students will receive up to five years of scholarships and upper-division students will receive up to three years of scholarships. This project aims to improve retention and persistence rates, improve graduation rates, and support student success. Supports for scholars include mentoring, career development activities, internship opportunities, undergraduate research opportunities, graduate school preparation, networking events, and workshops on academic success, and mental health and wellness. CSUB serves communities with low academic engagement and high poverty rates, so this project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields. This project will further CSUB’s mission of providing high-quality and impactful degree programs, laying the foundation for scholars to engage in STEM careers or graduate school after they obtain their degree.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. There are two specific goals for the project. Goal 1: Increase the retention and persistence rates of supported scholars and eliminate achievement gaps for low-income students. Goal 2: Increase scholars' graduation rates and facilitate their post-graduation entry into either STEM careers or a STEM graduate program. The project will be evaluated using result-based accountability based on each scholar’s academic progress, surveys and interviews with scholars, and feedback from the faculty mentors. This project has the potential to advance understanding of models for retention, success, mentorship, and enrichment of STEM undergraduate students and project outcomes will be widely disseminated through a project website at CSUB, conference presentations, and journal articles. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.

该项目将通过支持加利福尼亚州立大学，贝克斯菲尔德（CSUB）的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求做出贡献。 CSUB将名称称为少数派服务机构和西班牙裔服务机构。在其6年的持续时间内，该项目将每年为高达15,000美元的科学资助，54名独特的全日制学生，这些学生正在攻读生物学，生物化学，化学，计算机工程，计算机科学，电机工程，工程，工程学，工程科学，地质，数学和/或物理学学士学位。下级学生最多将获得五年的科学工作，而高级学生将获得最多三年的科学工作。该项目旨在提高保留率和持久性率，CSUB为学术参与度较低和贫困率高的社区提供服务，因此该项目有可能扩大参与STEM领域的参与。该项目将进一步提供CSUB提供高质量和有影响力的学位课程的使命，为学者获得学位后，为从事STEM职业或研究生院的学位奠定了基础。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入，高分，高成就的本科生的STEM学位。该项目有两个具体目标。目标1：提高支持学者的保留率和持久性率，并消除低收入学生的成就差距。目标2：提高学者的毕业率，并促进其毕业后进入STEM职业或STEM研究生计划。该项目将根据每个学者的学术进步，对学者的调查和访谈以及教师导师的反馈来评估该项目。该项目有可能通过在CSUB的项目网站，会议演示文稿和期刊文章中广泛传播对保留，成功，指导和丰富的保留，成功，指导和丰富模型的理解。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金提供资金，该计划旨在增加具有在STEM领域获得学位的经济需求的低收入学术才华的学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来STEM工人的教育，并为低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业以及学术/职业途径提供知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估的珍贵的支​​持。