Establishing an Inter-institutional San Fernando Valley Collaborative to Improve STEM Transfer Student Support, Retention, and Graduation

建立圣费尔南多谷机构间合作，以改善 STEM 转学生的支持、保留和毕业

• 批准号: 2322433
• 负责人: Shu-Sha Guan
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: The University Corporation, Northridge
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2322433&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Establishing; Inter; institutional; San; Fernando

This planning 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, Northridge (CSUN) and three regional community colleges in the San Fernando Valley (SFV), Los Angeles Mission College, Los Angeles Pierce College, and Los Angeles Valley College. All four institutions are Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). At CSUN, 56% of undergraduate students are Pell Grant recipients and over 50% of incoming students transferred from a community college. The collaborative team will determine strategic partnerships, barriers to student success, and equity-minded initiatives to support low-income, historically underserved college students during a critical period in the transfer from community college to 4-year institution. This project will advance knowledge in enhancing infrastructure for STEM research and education between 2-year and 4-year institutions of higher education in the SFV, home to over a third of the Latinx population in Los Angeles. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Objectives include building a leadership team of stakeholders across the SFV to broaden pathways to STEM for low-income, historically underserved students. The team will assess needs and barriers to STEM transfer, retention, and graduation. Ultimately, the team will develop a future Track 3 S-STEM proposal with equity-minded strategies and rigorous evaluation plan. Students experience financial and sociocultural barriers in relocating from a community college to 4-year institution having to adapt to new expectations and financial needs. Transfer students make up the majority of incoming students at CSUN and this transfer shock is reflected in STEM academic performance and persistence in complex ways that bear disentangling. The knowledge transfer proposed between interdisciplinary and inter-institutional partners in the current project will facilitate the development of targeted tools and approaches to support community college and 4-year undergraduate students alike. 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.

This planning project will contribute to the national needs 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, Northridge (CSUN) and three regional community colleges in the San Fernando Valley (SFV), Los Angeles Mission College, Los Angeles Pierce College, and Los Angeles Valley College.所有四个机构都是西班牙裔服务机构（HSIS）。在CSUN，有56％的本科生是Pell Grant的接受者，超过50％的从社区大学转学的学生。合作团队将在从社区学院转移到4年的机构的关键时期，确定战略合作伙伴关系，学生成功的障碍以及为支持低收入的，历史上服务不足的大学生提供支持。该项目将提高知识，以增强SFV 2年和4年高等教育机构的STEM研究和教育基础设施，这是洛杉矶拉丁裔人口的三分之一的所在地。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。目标包括在SFV上建立一支由利益相关者组成的领导团队，以扩大为低收入，历史悠久的学生而言，驱动途径。该团队将评估STAM转移，保留和毕业的需求和障碍。最终，团队将通过公平策略和严格的评估计划制定未来的曲目3 S-STEM提案。学生经历了财务和社会文化障碍，从社区学院迁至4年的机构，必须适应新的期望和财务需求。转学学生构成了CSUN的大多数新来学生，这种转移冲击反映在STEM的学习成绩和持久性中，以复杂的方式解散。当前项目中跨学科和机构间合作伙伴之间提出的知识转移将有助于开发有针对性的工具和方法，以支持社区大学和4年的本科生。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。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影响的评估标准来评估通过评估而被认为是珍贵的。