Washington Community and Technical College Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Equity

华盛顿社区和技术学院本科生研究和公平联盟

• 批准号: 2336652
• 负责人: Valerie Sundby
• 金额: $ 199.56万
• 依托单位: COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGES, WASHINGTION STATE BOARD FOR
• 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: 2024-06-01 至 2029-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2336652&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Washington; Community; Technical; College; Consortium

This project aims to serve the national interest by improving the academic engagement of historically underrepresented students in STEM fields, enhancing their disciplinary learning, and increasing their likelihood of earning undergraduate degrees. The Washington Community and Technical College Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Equity (WA CURE) is a Level 2 Institutional and Community Transformation IUSE project. WA CURE is a joint effort by 34 Washington State public community and technical colleges to expand the use of Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs). Fifty-eight percent of Washington State’s undergraduate students are enrolled at community or technical colleges. Thirty-seven percent of STEM majors at these colleges identify with historically underrepresented groups, e.g., students of color, first-generation college students, and non-traditional learners such as working adults. Community and technical colleges report similar institutional barriers to adopting CUREs, such as a lack of research culture, institutional support, and connections to research infrastructure. Lessons learned from this project aim to generate useful insights for colleges to overcome these barriers to CURE adoption. The project’s primary research questions will be: 1) How, and in what way, does participation in a CURE learning community affect a faculty member’s pedagogical practice? 2) To what extent do CUREs, as implemented by participating faculty, affect and potentially close equity gaps across student academic performance, persistence, completion, and transfer? and 3) How, and in what ways, does the college-wide implementation of CUREs identify and validate promising practices about organizational change, scaling CUREs at participating colleges, and replicating CUREs at colleges in other states? These questions will be addressed via three methods: 1) a professional development program to expand implementation of high-quality CUREs, complemented by a shared, open-access CURE curriculum archive; 2) a CURE “institutionalization incubator” – the WA CURE Academy – to cultivate faculty leadership, form strategic action plans, and produce change through CURE implementation; and 3) new assessment and research infrastructure to foster a culture of scholarly teaching and research on CUREs at participating colleges, as well as increase awareness of related research opportunities among these colleges’ students and faculty. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.

该项目旨在通过提高历史上代表性不足的学生在STEM领域的学术参与度，加强他们的学科学习，提高他们获得本科学位的可能性，为国家利益服务。华盛顿社区和技术学院本科研究和公平联盟（WA CURE）是一个二级机构和社区转型IUSE项目。WA CURE是华盛顿州34所公立社区和技术学院的共同努力，旨在扩大基于课程的本科生研究经验（CUREs）的使用。华盛顿州58%的本科生就读于社区或技术学院。这些大学中37%的STEM专业学生属于历史上代表性不足的群体，例如有色人种学生、第一代大学生和非传统学习者，如在职成年人。社区和技术学院报告了采用cure的类似制度障碍，例如缺乏研究文化、机构支持以及与研究基础设施的联系。从该项目中吸取的经验教训旨在为大学提供有用的见解，以克服采用CURE的这些障碍。该项目的主要研究问题将是：1)参与CURE学习社区如何以及以何种方式影响教师的教学实践？2)在多大程度上，由参与的教师实施的CUREs影响并可能缩小学生学业成绩，持久性，完成和转学方面的公平差距？3)在大学范围内实施的CUREs如何以及以何种方式识别和验证有关组织变革的有希望的实践，在参与的大学中扩展CUREs，并在其他州的大学中复制CUREs ？这些问题将通过三种方法来解决：1)一个专业发展计划，以扩大高质量的CURE的实施，辅以一个共享的、开放获取的CURE课程档案；2)一个CURE“制度化孵化器”——西澳CURE学院——培养教师领导能力，形成战略行动计划，并通过CURE的实施产生变化；3)建立新的评估和研究基础设施，以促进参与院校的学术教学和研究文化，并提高这些院校学生和教师对相关研究机会的认识。NSF IUSE: EDU项目支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型轨道，该计划支持高等教育机构和学科社区的STEM教育转型和改善。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。