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.

该项目旨在通过改善历史上代表性不足的学生在STEM领域的学术参与，增强他们的学科学习，并增加他们获得本科学位的可能性来满足国家利益。华盛顿社区和技术学院的本科研究与公平（WA CURE）是2级机构和社区转型IUSE项目。 WA CURE是34个华盛顿州公共社区和技术学院的共同努力，以扩大基于课程的本科研究经验（治疗）的使用。华盛顿州的本科生中有58％被纳入社区或技术学院。这些大学的STEM专业的37％认同历史上代表性不足的群体，例如有色人种，第一代大学生和非传统学习者，例如工作成年人。社区和技术学院报告了采用治疗方法的类似机构障碍，例如缺乏研究文化，机构支持以及与研究基础设施的联系。从这个项目中学到的经验教训旨在为大学提供有用的见解，以克服这些障碍以治愈采用。该项目的主要研究问题将是：1）如何，以及以什么方式参与治疗学习社区影响教师的教学实践？ 2）通过参与教师实施的治疗方法在多大程度上影响并可能在学生的学业绩效，持久性，完成和转移的情况下影响和潜在的股权差距？ 3）如何以及如何以何种方式以及如何以何种方式来识别和验证有关组织变革的承诺实践，扩展参与大学的治疗方法以及在其他州的大学中复制治疗方法？这些问题将通过三种方法解决：1）专业开发计划，以扩大由共享的开放式治疗课程档案完成的高质量治疗方法的实施； 2）一种治疗“制度化孵化器”（WA CURE Academy），旨在培养教师领导，制定战略行动计划并通过治疗实施产生变化； 3）新的评估和研究基础设施，以促进参与大学治愈的科学教学和研究文化，以及对这些大学的学生和教职员工中相关研究机会的认识。 NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型的轨道，该计划支持努力在高等教育和纪律社区的机构之间进行转化和改善STEM教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估审查标准来通过评估来获得的支持。