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

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）计划，该规划提案旨在确定战略和资金机会，旨在加强在两年制HSI建立STEM教育能力所需的活动，通过创建跨机构的课程为基础的本科生研究经验（CURES）作为一种教育模式，将本科生研究整合到介绍性的非主要和主要的STEM社区学院课程，可以继续作为本科生的研究经验（雷乌斯），并作为本科项目的进展，当学生转入4年制大学STEM专业。CURE是嵌入到课程中的高影响力实践，已被提议作为增加获得研究教育利益的包容性战略。虽然CURE对学生成功参数的影响已在4年制院校中得到广泛证实，但对CURE在2年制大学中的好处知之甚少，特别是那些服务不足的学生比例很高的大学，如HSIs。讨论将集中在如何跨机构的CURE可以提高干教育成果在2年制院校，从事本科研究的学生，并关闭在干学位完成代表性不足的学生的差距差距。规划会议的成果将是至关重要的，在推进知识的好处和独特的挑战，涉及跨机构的CURE计划的设计和实施。他们还将帮助确定有助于跨机构合作的核心要素，以提高学生的学习成果，并增强代表性不足的学生对STEM职业道路的兴趣。规划会议旨在为理解实施多机构CURE的好处，方法和可行性奠定基础。CURE的设计目标是创建STEM学生群体，并通过学术途径，包括体验式学习，指导，沉浸在科学和工程设计的过程中，以及推进和坚持STEM职业的机会。 为了解决这些问题并评估拟议的STEM跨机构CURE计划的可行性，他们将举行讨论，以建立和扩大他们先前在凤凰城学院（PC）的本科研究和CURE实施工作，PC的STEM指导计划（数学，工程，科学成就计划），和美国国家科学基金会资助的生物介导和生物启发的岩土工程中心和纳米技术使水处理中心在管理和进行REU计划的经验。规划会议将建立在NSF资助的MCCCD STEM-CURE计划（NSF EES 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研究经验（CURE）（NSF HRD 2211811）来改善HSI社区学院的STEM教育，并将增加对2年制HSI的STEM学生适应CURE的知识和理解。研究结果将通过教育研究期刊、在区域和国家会议上的演讲以及机构社交媒体渠道传播给政府机构和高等教育组织。调查结果将为两年制HSIs中高影响力教育干预措施的资金优先事项提供信息，并为STEM学生的参与和坚持提供有效的模型。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.