Scholarships to Support Students at Hawaiian and Pacific Island Institutions of Higher Education in STEM Degree Programs

支持夏威夷和太平洋岛屿高等教育机构 STEM 学位课程学生的奖学金

• 批准号: 2321673
• 负责人: Robert Richmond
• 金额: $ 499.97万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 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: 2023-10-15 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321673&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarships; Support; Students; Hawaiian; Pacific

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the recruitment, retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need enrolled in several Pacific Islands institutions of higher education. This project, which builds on an existing and successful partnership between the University of Hawaii at Manoa, American Samoa Community College, the College of Micronesia - FSM, the College of the Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas College, and Palau Community College, will provide scholarships of up to $15,000 per year to up to 250 scholars over five years. Scholars will be prepared to serve their communities and meet national needs in critical STEM areas including ocean health, natural resource assessment, protection, restoration, and resilience in the face of climate change and other challenges to environmental and natural resource sustainability. Island-based students including Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) are often hindered in pursuing higher education by financial limitations. Over 65% of this group of students are the first generation in their families to attend college, and often graduate at lower rates compared to their peers. Elements of this project, specifically scholarships, mentoring, cohort activities, professional skill development, and a network of academic support can make the difference in helping students succeed in earning degrees in STEM. Lessons learned from this project will be applied to help increase opportunities for low-income, island-based students, including first-generation college students and NHPIs, to enter the STEM workforce. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. It will support a group of highly intelligent, culturally connected, and largely underrepresented students in pursuing STEM careers. Project research and evaluation efforts will contribute new knowledge on the effectiveness of approaches and activities that strengthen students’ self-efficacy, science identity, and sense of belonging in entering the STEM workforce. A specific focus of the project research will be to explore the impact of a novel mentoring structure. Scholars will be assigned a faculty mentor to provide academic and professional support, and will select a second socioemotional mentor that can tailor their advice to a scholar's culture, identity, family roles, and other personal factors that might impact their engagement and success. Scholars will be trained for employment in rapidly expanding STEM fields, broadening participation in the STEM workforce by NHPIs and other populations represented in the pool of scholars. 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，通过支持高分，低收入学生的招聘，保留和毕业，这些学生在太平洋岛屿几个高等教育机构中都招募了经济需求。该项目建立在夏威夷大学马诺阿大学，美国萨摩亚社区学院，密克罗尼西亚学院-FSM，马歇尔群岛，北玛丽安娜学院和帕劳社区学院之间的现有和成功合作伙伴关系之间，将为五年来最高每年15,000美元的奖学金。学者们将准备为其社区服务并满足关键STEM地区的国家需求，包括海洋健康，自然资源评估，保护，恢复和韧性，面对气候变化以及对环境和自然资源可持续性的其他挑战。岛屿的学生包括夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民（NHPI），通常会因财务限制而受到高等教育的阻碍。超过65％的学生是他们家庭上大学的第一代学生，与同龄人相比，通常以较低的比率毕业。该项目的要素，特别是奖学金，心理，队列活动，专业技能发展和学术支持网络可以在帮助学生成功获得STEM学位方面有所作为。从该项目中学到的经验教训将用于帮助增加低收入的基于岛屿的学生（包括第一代大学生和NHPIS）进入STEM劳动力的机会。该项目的总体目标是增加茎学位的完成，以证明财务需求，使低收入，高成就的大学生的本科生完成。它将支持一群高度聪明，具有文化联系，并且在从事STEM职业方面的人数不足。项目研究和评估工作将为方法和活动的有效性提供新的知识，从而增强学生在进入STEM劳动力中的自我有效，科学身份和归属感。项目研究的一个特定重点是探索新型心理结构的影响。学者将被分配一种教师的心理，以提供学术和专业的支持，并将选择第二种社会情感的心理，可以为科学文化，身份，家庭角色以及可能影响其参与和成功的其他个人因素定制建议。学者将在快速扩大的STEM领域中接受培训，从而扩大NHPIS和其他学者库中其他人群的STEM劳动力的参与。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证明经济需求的低收入学术才华的学生人数，他们在STEM领域获得了学位。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。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。