Implementation Project-Institutional Change through Faculty Advancement in Instruction and Mentoring-ICFAIM

杰克逊州立大学的实施项目--通过教师进步促进教学和指导--建立在之前两个成功实施项目的基础上，旨在通过帮助教职员工和研究生改善教学和指导，增加本科生在科学、工程和技术学院的留校率。该项目最初的工作重点是物理、大气科学和地球科学系(PASGS)，在以学生为中心的教学中试行教师发展讲习班，并提供专业指导。该项目还支持教育部努力修订入门级物理课程及其各自实验室的内容。为了检验教师发展在指导和开发研究方法课程方面的有效性，该项目支持学生和教师在学年期间增加校园内和与合作机构全年的研究机会。这将增加本科生的整体研究参与度。该项目将从一个主要针对PASGS的项目扩展到学院各系内的制度化项目。它提供了一个收集数据的机会，将指导教师如何成功地满足非裔美国人科学、技术、工程和数学本科生的特殊学习和指导需求。该项目有可能成为一个成功的模式，将与更广泛的学院和大学社区分享，这些学院和大学正在努力增加进入科学和技术劳动力的少数族裔人数。

The implementation project at Jackson State University entitled - Institutional Change through Faculty Advancement in Instruction and Mentoring - builds on two successful previous implementation projects and aims to increase the retention of undergraduate students in the College of Science, Engineering and Technology by helping the faculty and graduate students to improve teaching and mentoring. The project focuses its initial efforts on the Department of Physics, Atmospheric Sciences and Geoscience (PASGS) by piloting faculty development workshops in student-centered pedagogy and delivering professional mentoring. The project also supports the department's efforts to revise the content of entry-level physics courses and their respective labs. To examine the efficacy of faculty development in mentoring and the development of a research methods course, the project supports students and faculty to increase the number of research opportunities on campus during the academic year and with partner institutions year round. This will increase overall undergraduate research participation. The project will expand from one primarily targeting PASGS to one that is institutionalized within the departments in the college. It offers an opportunity to collect data that will guide the faculty on how to successfully address the particular learning and mentoring needs of African American science,technology, engineering and mathematics undergraduate students.This project has the potential to become a successful model which will be shared with the broader community of colleges and universities that are working to increase the number of minorities entering the scientific and technological workforce.