Using Scholarships, Teams and Research to Engage Undergraduate STEM Students at an HSI

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构计划（HSI计划），该项目将通过为加州州立理工大学洪堡分校（Cal Poly Humboldt）的STEM专业提供财政和学术支持，为国家对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的需求做出贡献。 在三年的时间里，该项目将为攻读生物化学，生物学，化学，计算机科学，信息学或数学学士学位的低收入学生提供同行和教师指导，辅导和长达三年的奖学金支持。奖学金获得者将被安排到队列中，以探索职业机会，培养劳动力技能，参与工作阴影，并从事研究。成功的干预措施将从项目的最初参与者扩大到该机构更广泛的专业人员。 该项目的总体目标是提高重点学科的STEM学位完成率，并在多部分项目模型的有效方面产生新的知识。该项目的长期预期成果包括增加学生在STEM课程中的保留率，缩短毕业时间，提高毕业率，增加就业机会或进入研究生院。指导计划，课外活动和丰富的经验与该项目的目标相一致，以加强参与学生作为STEM学习者和未来专业人士的身份。项目研究将使用混合方法的方法来探索每个经验和支持系统如何影响学生的科学身份。成果和做法将广泛传播给其他致力于帮助和留住各类学生的高等教育机构。该项目的长期成果包括增加STEM课程的学生保留率，减少毕业时间和提高STEM的毕业率，以及增加Cal Poly Humbolt STEM毕业生在STEM劳动力中的就业机会。该项目由HSI计划资助，旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM参与，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智力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 Program (HSI Program), this project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by providing financial and academic supports for STEM majors at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt (Cal Poly Humboldt). Over its three-year duration, this project will provide peer and faculty mentoring, tutoring, and up to three years of scholarship support to low-income students pursuing bachelor's degrees in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computer science, informatics, or mathematics. Scholarship recipients will be placed into cohorts to explore career opportunities, build workforce skills, participate in job shadowing, and engage in research. Successful interventions will be scaled beyond the project's initial participants to the broader population of majors at the institution. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion in the focal disciplines and generate new knowledge on effective aspects of the multi-part project model. The long-term expected outcomes of the project include increased student retention in STEM programs, reduced time to graduation, increased graduation rates, and increased job placement or entry into graduate school. The mentoring plan, co-curricular activities, and rich experiences align with the project's goal to strengthen participating students' identity as STEM learners and future professionals. Project research will use a mixed-methods approach to explore how each experience and support system impacts students' science identity. Outcomes and practices will be broadly disseminated to other institutions of higher education concerned with assisting and retaining a diverse population of students. The long-term outcomes of the project include increased student retention in STEM programs, reduced time to graduation and improved graduation rates in STEM, and increased placement in the STEM workforce for Cal Poly Humbolt STEM graduates. This project is funded by the HSI Program, which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs.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.