ICE-TI: Building Capacity and Pathways to STEM Degrees

ICE-TI：能力建设和通往 STEM 学位的途径

• 批准号: 2326616
• 负责人: Allen Derks
• 金额: $ 250万
• 依托单位: White Earth Tribal and Community College
• 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: 2024-02-15 至 2029-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2326616&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ICE; TI; Building; Capacity; Pathways

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricular offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities for their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover may serve as a model and impetus for similar institutions of higher education to develop degree programs. The connection of faculty to the development of novel opportunities for programs of study that ensure successful transfer to local employment, particularly tribal employment, or to baccalaureate studies at nearby universities will demonstrate the essentiality of engaging full-time, credentialed STEM faculty devoted to a specific strand of study and preparation. Moreover, for those students entering the workforce directly from a tribal college it is crucially important that they have a well-defined skill set in mathematics, science, and technology for entry into the STEM workforce. This project provides an accredited STEM associate of science (AS) degree in the natural sciences at White Earth Tribal and Community College (WETCC) for students who may then transfer to a local university for upper division studies to pursue a baccalaureate degree or be prepared for employment at local, particularly tribal, service organizations. The AS project recognizes and furthers students’ ability to pursue degrees in the natural sciences to include chemistry and physics, in addition to biology—a degree that can have a significant benefit to the career and life options for TCU students. The increase in specialized STEM faculty, specifically chemistry and physics, ensures that the curricular offerings have relevance more broadly to related programs of study. Strengthening the natural sciences provides a grounding and assists student success and matriculation into other programs of study, including health sciences, that are sometimes marginalized by funding agencies.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.

部落学院和大学计划（TCUP）的目标是增加科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的指示和研究能力，这些指导和研究能力是为国家土著学生提供服务的高等教育机构。这些机构扩大STEM课程产品为学生提供挑战的机会，奖励STEM领域的职业，为可能具有文化意义的领域的研究提供研究，并鼓励对科学和数学教育的社区和世代相传。该项目直接与该目标保持一致，此外，可以作为类似高等教育机构开发学位课程的模型和动力。教职员工与开发新的研究计划的联系，以确保成功转移到当地就业，尤其是部落就业或附近大学的学士学位研究，这将证明与专职，有资格的STEM教师的参与至特定的研究和准备。此外，对于那些直接从一所部落学院进入劳动力的学生来说，重要的是，他们拥有一项定义明确的数学，科学和技术技能，以进入STEM劳动力。该项目为怀特地球部落和社区学院（WETCC）的自然科学科学学位（AS）提供了认可的STEM副学士学位，他们可能会将可能转移到当地大学上级研究，以购买学士学位或为当地，特别是部落服务组织的就业做好准备。 AS项目认识到学生在自然科学中购买学位的能力除了生物学外，还可以包括化学和物理学包括化学和物理学，这一学位可以为TCU学生的职业和生活选择带来重大好处。专门的STEM教师，特别是化学和物理学的增加，可确保当前产品与相关研究计划更广泛地相关。加强自然科学为基础提供了基础，并为学生的成功提供了成功，并将其矩阵纳入了其他研究计划，包括健康科学，这些科学有时会被资助机构边缘化。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估值得支持。