Planning: HSI Project: Supporting STEM Undergraduates through On-Campus Employment and Mentorship

规划：HSI 项目：通过校园就业和指导支持 STEM 本科生

• 批准号: 2332482
• 负责人: Ryan Culbertson
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 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: 2023-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2332482&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; HSI; Project; Supporting; STEM

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this planning project aims to support initial conceptualization, planning and collaboration activities that will formulate two new larger-scale NSF proposals, as well as supporting STEM undergraduates at five HSIs through on-campus employment and mentorship at the Prefreshman Engineering Program (PREP). On-campus employment has been shown to benefit students’ academic and social engagement; however, many on-campus jobs are not pay-competitive with off-campus jobs and many students lose the opportunity to gain enrichment that on-campus jobs can provide. Supported STEM undergraduates will receive competitive stipends, as well as culturally relevant mentorship (CRM) training and mentoring themselves through peer interaction, program staff, and STEM professionals. As mentors for PREP, students will be in an environment where they are able to apply STEM skills and knowledge and learn the importance of culturally relevant practices in mentoring, creating a positive benefit to all through STEM and personal growth, leading to increased STEM participation and retention. The specific aims of this project are to improve the retention and graduation of students pursuing associate's or baccalaureate degrees in STEM at five HSIs through STEM-focused on-campus employment, to enhance undergraduate STEM education by expanding CRM, and to build capacity for fundamental research in undergraduate STEM education. Data collected from this project will help identify how STEM-focused on-campus employment opportunities during the summer as near-peer STEM mentors for pre-college mentees could improve academic and social capital and college success. Results will be used to develop two larger scale NSF proposals that will expand upon this project’s efforts and scope. Knowledge gained from this project aims to highlight the importance/positive effects of on-campus employment, near-peer mentoring, and networking with STEM peers and professionals during the summertime. 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.

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该计划项目旨在支持最初的概念化，计划和协作活动，这些活动将制定两个新的大规模NSF提案，并支持五个HSIS在五个HSIS上通过校园内和预科课程的STEM本科生（Prepfershman Engrimering（Prepfershman Elemnering）（Prepfershman Engresering）（Prepfershman Elemnering）（Prepfershman Elemnering）（Prepfershman Elemnering）（Prepfershman Engrimering）（Prepfershman Engrimering）（PrepForshman Engemering）（PrepForshman Engemering）（Prep）。校园就业已被证明使学生的学术和社会参与受益；但是，许多校园内的工作并不是校外工作的竞争力，许多学生失去了获得校园工作可以提供的丰富的机会。支持的STEM大学生将通过同伴互动，计划人员和STEM专业人员来获得竞争压力，以及与文化相关的心态（CRM）培训和心态。作为预科的导师，学生将处于能够运用STEM技能和知识的环境中，并了解与文化相关的实践在心理方面的重要性，从而通过STEM和个人成长为所有人带来积极的好处，从而增加了STEM的参与和保留。该项目的具体目的是改善通过以STEM为注重的校园就业机会在五hsis中追求STEM的学生或学士学位的学生的保留和毕业，以扩大CRM来增强本科STEM教育，并增强在STEM教育中基本研究的能力。从该项目中收集的数据将有助于确定夏季以Stem专注于校园的员工机会，因为预科前男性的近per STEM导师可以改善学术和社会资本和大学的成功。结果将用于开发两个大规模的NSF提案，以扩大该项目的努力和范围。从该项目中获得的知识旨在强调校园就业，近点心理以及与STEM同龄人和专业人员在夏季期间的重要性/积极影响。 HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育并在HSIS的建立能力。 HSI计划支持的项目还将为如何实现这些目标提供新的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来通过评估来诚实地获得支持。