Pathways to STEM Bachelor's and Graduate Degrees for Hispanic Students and the Role of Hispanic-Serving Institutions

这是一个Step Type 2项目，旨在研究西班牙裔在为高等教育机构服务的学生STEM领域的职业生涯中所扮演的角色。调查人员使用一个全国性的数据集描述了从社区大学转到学士院校的拉美裔学生的特点，大学的融资策略和研究生教育的借款做法，以及服务于拉美裔人口的机构的特点。这项研究特别关注社区学院在STEM大学毕业生多样化方面的作用。研究人员依赖于对大型全国性调查(通过综合高等教育数据系统增强的对应届大学毕业生的调查)的统计分析。研究人员使用复杂的统计分析方法来检验学生选择学校和以后完成学业之间关系的假设。此外，研究人员正在对一组成功培养出大量STEM毕业生的拉美裔机构进行定性研究，以观察可能导致他们在这些人群中取得成功的特征。这项研究的优点是它解决了科技劳动力中的拉美裔问题。它还有机会通过确定影响拉美裔学生研究生出勤率的支持形式来影响更广泛的社区。

This is a STEP Type 2 project that is examining the role of Hispanic serving higher education institutions in the STEM field careers of students. The investigators are describing the characteristics of Hispanic students who transfer from community colleges to BA institutions using a national data set, the college financing strategies and borrowing practices for graduate education, and the characteristics of the institutions that serve the Hispanic population. The study focuses especially on the role of community colleges in diversifying the STEM college graduates. The researchers rely on a statistical analysis of large national surveys (the survey of Recent College Graduates enhanced by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System). The researchers use sophisticated statistical analysis methods to test hypotheses of relationships between student institution choice and later completion. Also, the researchers are conducting a qualitative study of a selected group of Hispanic institutions that are successful in producing large numbers of STEM graduates to observe features that might have been responsible for their success with that population. The merit of this study is that it addresses the issue of Hispanics in the science and technology workforce. It also has an opportunity to impact the broader community by identifying forms of support that affect the graduate school attendance of Hispanic students.