Enhancing Undergraduate Success in Physics

佛罗里达国际大学是一所位于佛罗里达迈阿密的城市公立大学，拥有超过53，000名学生，是全国第七大大学。该大学为大量经济困难的学生提供服务，近50%的本科生获得经济援助，近60%的受助者来自家庭年收入低于30，000美元的家庭。它也是一个西班牙裔服务机构，并授予最学士学位和硕士学位，以西班牙裔学生在该国。仅物理系就有150多个本科专业，是全国最大的授予西班牙裔学生物理学士学位的生产商之一。为了确保他们及时和成功地完成学位，该项目将为本科物理专业提供奖学金，并将提供一个独特的机会，以提高历史上代表性不足的群体在物理学方面的成功，以及发展更深入的了解支持这些群体的做法。该项目也将影响物理系作为一个整体，招聘活动将聘请教师教物理学入门课程，该项目将定期报告结果，在部门的教师。通过期刊出版物和会议报告，将研究结果更广泛地传播到大学社区以及全国范围内，这将为如何最好地支持历史上代表性不足的物理学群体提供重要的见解。该项目将为两批经济困难、学术才华出众的学生提供高达10，000美元的可再生奖学金和学术支持。学生群体将被整合到一个学术学习社区，将提供必要的学术和社会支持，以促进及时完成本科学位。参与者将参加一个学分的研讨会，为科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）职业和研究生院做准备，并接受项目团队的指导。补充他们的学术课程将是一系列其他活动，以进一步融入学习社区。该计划的招聘将通过多种渠道进行，包括大学的入门物理课程，物理和天文学学生团体以及直接电子邮件和网络。监测将在整个项目中继续进行，评估部分将检查毕业的持久性，研究生院的录取率和持久性代理，包括Rovai的社区感量表。

Florida International University is an urban public university in Miami, Florida with over 53,000 students, the seventh largest university in the country. The university serves a large population of economically disadvantaged students as nearly 50% of all undergraduate students receive financial aid and nearly 60% of those recipients come from families with annual household incomes under $30,000. It is also a Hispanic-Serving Institution and awards the most baccalaureate and master's degrees to Hispanic students in the country.. The Physics Department alone has over 150 undergraduate majors and is one of the country's largest producers of Physics baccalaureate degrees awarded to Hispanic students. To ensure their timely and successful degree completion, this project will offer scholarships to undergraduate physics majors and will provide a unique opportunity to increase the success of historically underrepresented groups in physics, as well as to develop deeper understanding of practices that support these groups. The project will also impact the physics department as a whole, as recruitment activities will engage faculty teaching the introductory physics courses and the project will regularly report results to the faculty in the department. Broader dissemination of the results to the university community, as well as nationally via journal publications and conference presentations, will provide important insights into how to best support historically underrepresented groups in physics.This project will provide renewable scholarships of up to $10,000 and academic support to two cohorts of financially needy, academically talented students. The student cohorts will be integrated into an academic learning community that will provide the academic and social support necessary to foster timely undergraduate degree completion. Participants will enroll in a one credit seminar to prepare for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers and graduate school as well as receive mentoring from the project team. Complementing their academic program will be a series of other activities to further integrate them into the learning community. Recruitment into the program will be through multiple channels, including introductory physics courses at the university, physics and astronomy student groups, and direct email and web presence. Monitoring will continue throughout the project and an evaluation component will examine persistence through graduation, graduate school acceptance rates, and persistence proxies including Rovai's Sense of Community Scale.