Planning: EES-HSI Program: Expanding Diversity in STEM by Broadening Participation in CUREs through Multi-Institutional Experiential Learning Programs

在改进的本科STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI)计划的支持下，这项规划建议旨在确定旨在加强必要活动的战略和资金机会，以加强两年制HSI的STEM教育能力，通过创建基于跨院校课程的本科研究经验(CURE)作为一种教育模式，将本科研究整合到入门非专业和主要STEM社区学院课程中，这些课程可以继续作为本科生的研究体验(REUS)，并在学生转到四年制大学STEM专业时作为本科项目取得进展。CURES是嵌入课程课程的高影响力实践，已被提议作为一项包容性战略，以增加获得研究的教育益处。虽然治疗对学生成功参数的影响在四年制院校中得到了广泛的证明，但人们对两年制大学治疗的好处知之甚少，特别是那些服务不足的学生比例很高的大学，比如HSIS。讨论将集中于跨院校治疗如何改善两年制院校的STEM教育成果，让学生参与本科生研究，并缩小STEM学位毕业率与代表性不足学生的差距。规划会议的结果对于增进对跨机构治疗计划的设计和实施中涉及的好处和独特挑战的了解至关重要。它们还将帮助确定有助于跨机构合作的核心要素，以改善学生的学习结果，并提高代表人数不足的学生对STEM职业道路的兴趣。规划会议旨在为了解实施多机构疗法的好处、方法和可行性奠定基础。课程的设计目标是培养一批STEM学生，并带领他们通过一条涉及体验式学习、指导、沉浸在科学和工程设计过程中的学术道路，以及在STEM职业生涯中前进和坚持的机会。为了解决这些问题并评估拟议的STEM跨机构治疗计划的可行性，他们将举行讨论，以建立和扩大他们之前的工作，包括凤凰城学院(PC)的本科生研究和治疗实施，PC(数学、工程、科学成就计划)的STEM指导计划，以及NSF资助的生物中介和生物启发岩土技术中心和纳米技术使水处理中心在管理和实施REU计划方面的经验。规划课程将建立在国家科学基金会资助的MCCCD STEM-CURE计划(NSFEES 1832543)和PC HSI会议的建议：通过引入高影响力的基于课程的本科生研究经验(CURE)来改善HSI社区学院的STEM教育(NSF HRD 2211811)，并将增加对适应HSI两年制STEM学生的STEM-CURE的知识和理解。结果将通过教育研究期刊、在区域和国家会议上的陈述以及机构社交媒体渠道传播给政府机构和高等教育组织。研究结果将为两年制HSI中高影响力教育干预的资金优先顺序提供依据，并为STEM学生的参与度和坚持性提供有效的模式。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program, this planning proposal aims to identify strategies and funding opportunities directed to enhancing activities necessary to build STEM education capacity at 2-year HSIs, by creating cross-institutional Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) as an educational model for integrating undergraduate research into introductory non-major and major STEM community college courses that can be continued as Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs), and progress as undergraduate projects when students transfer to a 4-year university STEM major. CUREs are high impact practices embedded into the course curriculum that have been proposed as an inclusive strategy for increasing access to the educational benefits of research. While the impact of CUREs on student success parameters has been widely demonstrated in 4-year institutions, little is known of the benefits of CUREs in 2-year colleges, specifically those with significant percentages of underserved students, such as HSIs. Discussions will be focused on how cross-institutional CUREs can improve STEM educational outcomes at 2-year institutions, engage students in undergraduate research, and close the gap in STEM degree completion of underrepresented students. Planning session outcomes will be critical in advancing knowledge of the benefits and unique challenges involved in the design and implementation of cross-institutional CURE programs. They will also aid in the identification of core elements that contribute to cross-institutional collaborations for improved student learning outcomes and enhanced interest in STEM career pathways among underrepresented students.Planning sessions aim to lay the foundation for understanding benefits, methodology, and viability of implementing multi-institutional CUREs. CUREs will be designed with the goal of creating cohorts of STEM students and taking them through an academic pathway that involves experiential learning, mentoring, immersion in the process of science and engineering design, and opportunities to advance and persist in STEM careers. To address these topics and assess the feasibility of the proposed STEM cross-institutional CURE program, they will hold discussions that will build and expand upon their prior work with undergraduate research and CURE implementation at Phoenix College (PC), STEM mentoring programs at PC (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Program), and NSF funded Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics and Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment experience in managing and conducting REU programs. Planning sessions will build on NSF-funded MCCCD STEM-CURE Program (NSF EES 1832543) and recommendations from PC HSI Conference: Improving STEM Education at HSI Community Colleges by Introducing High Impact Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) (NSF HRD 2211811) and will increase knowledge and understanding of adapting CUREs for STEM students at 2-year HSIs. Results will be disseminated to governmental agencies and higher education organizations via educational research journals, presentations at regional and national conferences, and institutional social media outlets. Findings will inform funding priorities for high impact educational interventions in 2-year HSIs, and provide effective models for STEM student engagement and persistence. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. 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.