University of Maryland Eastern Shore Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology ACTION Program

通过NSF历史上的黑人学院和大学本科生计划（HBCU-UP），马里兰州东海岸大学将实施行动计划（高级课程和基于技术的教学机会网络）。 行动将解决少数民族完成本科学位，攻读高级学位，并进入科学，技术工程和数学（STEM）领域的劳动力数量不足的问题。 该项目的目标包括：1）制定有效的招聘和大学桥梁计划; 2）改善STEM教育基础设施，提高STEM课程的保留率和绩效; 3）开发完整的STEM本科研究基础设施; 4）为STEM教师提供激励措施，成为一流的导师，讲师和研究人员。将实施的战略包括：1）开发一个全面的网站，UMES行动计划，向科学教师，辅导员和其他学校官员传播招生和课程安排信息，以帮助招募STEM学生; 2）通过教师访问计划与LSAMP招聘工作协调; 3）增加入学学生的准备，以提高保留率和入学率; 4）审查和修改守门和瓶颈课程，标准化多个部分课程，并为每门课程实施补充作业和支持实验室; 5）为完成第一年课程的学生开发研究机会; 6）开发教师和高年级学生研究计划，强调科学方法，数据收集，以及结果的表征和传播; 7）建立实习、暑期就业和其他校外研究相关活动; 8）通过研究和技术指导活动为教师发展提供支持。智力优势：ACTION项目是仿照以前成功的项目，包括：泽维尔大学标准化课件模型，国家科学教育标准，以及UMES LSAMP夏桥计划。 行动项目将有效地管理学生入学，从而增加，保留和毕业的学生在干学科。 学生将有机会获得指导，辅导，修订课程和教学大纲，以及研究机会。 核心把关课程的教师将参与系统改进的课程和教学法，从而解决学生准备和教师教学法在STEM教育中的重要性。 更广泛的影响：行动项目影响进入STEM学科的非裔美国本科生，为学生的研究生学习做好准备，并提供广泛的研究经验。 该项目具有相当大的潜力，影响在STEM领域的非裔美国本科生和研究生的数量。 从项目活动中受益的教师将影响大量STEM学生。项目活动满足当地确定的需要，但全国各地普遍存在类似的需要，这意味着有可能出现重复。

Through the NSF Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), the University of Maryland Eastern Shore will implement the ACTION Program (Advanced Curriculum and Technology-Based Instruction Opportunities Network). ACTION will address the low numbers of under-represented minorities completing undergraduate degrees, pursuing advanced degrees, and entering the workforce in the fields of science, technology engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The goals of the project include: 1) Develop an effective recruiting and college bridge program; 2) Improve STEM education infrastructure, improve retention rates and performance in STEM courses; 3) Develop a complete STEM undergraduate research infrastructure; and 4) Provide STEM faculty with the incentives to be first-rate mentors, instructors, and researchers. Strategies that will be implemented include: 1) Develop a comprehensive web- site, UMES ACTION program, that disseminates enrollment and course placement information to science teachers, counselors, and other school officials in order to help recruit STEM students; 2) Coordinate with LSAMP recruitment efforts via a faculty visitation program; 3) Increase the preparation of entering students to increase retention and enrollment; 4) Review and revise gate-keeping and bottleneck courses, standardize multiple section courses, and implement a supplemental homework and support laboratory for each course; 5) Develop research opportunities for students completing their first year of coursework; 6) Develop a faculty and upperclassmen student research program that emphasizes the scientific method, data collection, and the characterization and dissemination of results; 7) Establish internships, summer employment, and other off-campus research related activities; and 8) Provide support for faculty development through research and technical instruction activities.INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The ACTION project is modeled after previously successful programs including; a Xavier University model on standardized courseware, the National Science Education Standards, and the UMES LSAMP summer bridge program. The ACTION project will effectively manage student enrollment resulting in increasing, retaining, and graduating students in the STEM disciplines. Students will have access to mentoring, tutoring, revised curricula and pedagogies, and research opportunities. Faculty of core gate-keeping courses will participate in systematically improved curricula and pedagogy thereby addressing the importance of both student preparedness and faculty pedagogy in STEM education. BROADER IMPACT: The ACTION project impacts African American undergraduates entering STEM disciplines, prepares students for graduate studies, and provides a broad range of research experiences. The project has considerable potential to impact the number of African American undergraduate and graduate students in the STEM fields. Faculty who benefit from project activities will impact large numbers of STEM students. The project activities address locally identified needs, but the prevalence of similar needs nationally implies potential for duplication.