Planning grant for Philander Smith College Little Rock Arkansas

根据历史黑人学院和大学本科课程的这项规划拨款提案将使菲兰德·史密斯学院(PSC)能够参与规划工作，以丰富机构计划，并为加强其STM课程制定全面的提案。将调查几个领域：增加进入PSC STM项目的学生人数；提高保留率；加强新生前计划并重新设计新生水平的课程，以改变教学策略和增加技术注入；开发新课程，包括跨学科方法和新技术；增加学生的研究经验；让教师参与专业发展机会，以增强他们的教学和研究能力；以及提供必要的辅助基础设施增强。内部指导委员会将通过工作会议、个别成员任务分配、社区论坛、教职员工/学生研讨会、实地考察/模范大学方案以及其他战略和评估工具来实施规划进程。一个外部咨询委员会将监督全面提案的规划过程和发展。学院将举办一个论坛，听取来自当地三个学区和其他确定的学区的代表的意见，以解决招生和留住学生的问题。将举办STM机会论坛，向学生、社区领袖、教师、辅导员、学生、教授、科学家和其他许多人介绍校园。这一论坛将成为一个平台，重点是增加少数族裔参加高等教育的人数，并在STM职业生涯中取得成功。活动还将包括实地考察大学规划拨款网站和NSF/HBCU-UP示范网站；与教职员工就支持研究和教师发展的项目重新设计举行重点讨论和研讨会；分析数据和问卷；以及密切关注目前高中毕业学生与进入PSC本科课程之间存在的课程差距。该项目的学术价值在于，规划过程旨在提供一种合乎逻辑的方法来评估该机构加强其STM计划所需的问题，并制定一项全面的建议来满足这些需求，并提供一个能够显著有助于提高PSC的STM学术能力的计划。这笔规划补助金的更广泛影响是加强了PSC的STM学术能力，这将导致非洲裔美国学生的数量和准备增加，从而能够在这一社会重要领域做出贡献。

This planning grant proposal under the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program will enable Philander Smith College (PSC) to engage in planning efforts to enrich the institutional plan and to produce a comprehensive proposal for strengthening its STM program. Several areas will be investigated: increasing the number of students entering PSC STM programs; improving retention; enhancing the pre-freshman program and redesigning the freshman level courses to change instructional strategies and increase infusion of technology; developing new courses to include interdisciplinary approaches and new technological techniques; increasing the research experiences of students; engaging faculty in professional development opportunities to enhance their instructional and research capability; and providing necessary supporting infrastructure enhancements. The Internal Steering Committee will implement the planning process through working sessions, individual member task assignments, the Community Forum, Faculty/Staff/Students seminars, Site Visits/Model University Programs, and other strategies and assessment tools. An External Advisory Committee will oversee the planning process and development of a comprehensive proposal. The college will host a forum to gain input from representatives from the three local school districts and other identified districts to address recruiting and retaining students. A STM Opportunity Forum will be held to introduce students to the campus, community leaders, teachers, counselors, students, professors, scientists, and many others. This forum will serve as a platform to focus on enhancing the number of minorities participating in higher education and to succeed in careers in STM. Activities will also include site visits to a university planning grant site and NSF/HBCU-UP model sites; to hold focus discussions and seminars with faculty and staff on program redesign to support research as well as faculty development; to analyze data and questionnaires; and to look closely at gaps in curricula that presently exist between students leaving high school and entering undergraduate courses of study at PSC. The intellectual merit of this project is that the planning process is being designed to provide a logical approach to assessing the issues at the institution needed to strengthen its STM program and to develop a comprehensive proposal to address these needs and provide a plan that can significantly contribute to increasing the STM academic capability at PSC. The broader impacts of this planning grant is the strengthening of the STM academic capability at PSC which will result in the increase of the number and preparedness of African American students that can contribute in this essential area of society.