Strategic Synergies: STEM Pipeline

该奖项将促进组织一个研讨会，旨在制定和实施战略举措，以加强学生，特别是代表性不足的少数民族的STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）技能。一个由来自三个组织的教职员工组成的合作小组将参与学生发展活动，研讨会将作为为期一年的项目的启动活动。将领导该项目活动的三个组织是：(1)刺激竞争性研究的实验计划（EPSCoR）管辖区，(2)校园契约（关注高等教育公民目的的学院和大学校长网络）和(3)SENCER（新公民参与和责任的科学参与-一个致力于将科学学习与关键公民问题联系起来的组织）。夏威夷、蒙大拿州、爱荷华州、俄克拉何马州、西弗吉尼亚州、田纳西州、缅因州和新罕布什尔州是首批参与这一倡议的EPSCoR管辖区。智力优势：为学生开发可持续的支持系统需要一种战略方法，利用资本的协同优势-金融，社会和智力。本次研讨会和相关的为期一年的活动将配对EPSCoR辖区和校园契约办公室的代表，与SENCER研究员合作，开发大学生领导力、服务和研究模式（社会资本），并采用公民参与教学法（智力资本），为未被充分代表的少数民族学生创造可持续的6年级到大学二年级STEM成功途径。更广泛的影响：该项目将解决并提供可能的解决方案，以解决阻碍未被充分代表的少数民族充分参与STEM领域的问题。系统的方法，从六年级开始，是基于在HI实施的行之有效的成功策略。在其他七个EPSCoR管辖区采用类似的举措可能会产生重大影响，增加全国范围内从事STEM的代表性不足的少数群体的骨干。拟议工作的其他更广泛的影响在于利用评估小组努力影响的结果，并将这些信息传播给其他EPSCoR管辖区，供它们在发起类似伙伴关系时使用。

This award will facilitate the organization of a workshop aimed at developing and implementing strategic initiatives to strengthen the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) skills of students, particularly underrepresented minorities. A collaborative group of faculty and staff from three organizations will engage in student development activities with the workshop as the starting event for the year-long project. The three organizations that would lead this project's activities are: (1) Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) jurisdictions, (2) Campus Compact (a network of college and university presidents who focus on civic purposes of higher education), and (3) SENCER (Science Engagement for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities - an organization that committed to connecting science learning to critical civic questions). Hawaii, Montana, Iowa, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Tennessee, Maine, and New Hampshire are the initial cohort of EPSCoR jurisdictions that will participate in this initiative. Intellectual Merit: Developing sustainable support systems for students requires a strategic approach that takes synergistic advantage of capital - financial, social, and intellectual. This workshop and associated year-long activities will pair representatives from EPSCoR jurisdictions and Campus Compact offices in collaboration with SENCER Fellows to develop college student leadership, service, and research models (social capital) and employ civically engaged pedagogies (intellectual capital) to create sustainable Grade 6 through college sophomore STEM success pathways for underrepresented minority students. Broader Impacts: The project will address and provide possible solutions to issues inhibiting the full engagement of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields. The systemic approach, starting with Grade 6, is based upon proven success strategies implemented in HI. The adaption and adoption of analogous initiatives in seven other EPSCoR jurisdictions could have significant impacts by increasing the cadre of underrepresented minorities engaged in STEM nation-wide. Additional broader impacts of the proposed work lie in the use of outcomes from the assessment of the impact of the group's efforts and the dissemination of that information to other EPSCoR jurisdictions for their use in initiating similar partnerships.