Collaborative Research: NSF INCLUDES: An Integrated Approach to Retain Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM Disciplines

佐治亚大学、佛罗里达国际大学、萨凡纳州立大学、克拉克亚特兰大大学和福特谷州立大学将领导这项设计和开发启动试点，以解决在主要是白人（PWI）和研究密集型（RI）大学注册STEM研究生课程的历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）本科生的招聘、保留、生产力和满意度问题。该项目是为了响应工程和科学领域中代表性不足的发现者学习者（NSF INCLUDES）项目征集（NSF 16-544）而创建的。INCLUDES项目是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在加强美国在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）发现和创新方面的领导地位，重点关注NSF在这些领域的多样性、包容性和扩大参与的承诺。INCLUDES设计和开发启动试点项目代表了解决STEM领域日益扩大的参与挑战的大胆、创新的方式。美国所有STEM人才的充分参与，对于科学和工程的进步、国家安全、健康和繁荣至关重要。我们的国家正在推进知识和实践，以解决在我们国家的研究型大学（RIs）保留和培养URM本科STEM学生的STEM教育实践。这个项目，NSF包括：在STEM学科中保留未被充分代表的少数民族学生的综合方法，有可能推动一组组织的合作方法，以提高URM本科生在STEM学科中的成功。两所合作大学将携手合作，让大学管理学院的学生更有效地在少数族裔服务院校和少数族裔服务院校接受STEM本科和研究生教育，并改变少数族裔服务院校和少数族裔服务院校的文化。该团队计划使用基于证据的方法来深入了解影响URM STEM学生成功的文化差异。试点研究将包括三项干预措施：(1)msi和pwi之间的URM本科生交换，(2)合作探究，让URM学生参与有关STEM中代表性不足的问题和经验的社会科学研究，以及(3)适应研究，教学与学习整合中心（CIRTL）的资源，以培训STEM教师接受多样性并改善多样化课堂环境中的教学。项目团队计划制定战略，以扩大方法规模，并建立机构联盟，以最大限度地提高潜在的项目成果。

The University of Georgia, Florida International University, Savannah State University, Clark Atlanta University and Fort Valley State University will lead this Design and Development Launch Pilot to address enhancing recruitment, retention, productivity and satisfaction of historically underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduate students who enroll in STEM graduate programs at primarily white (PWI) and research intensive (RI) universities. This project was created in response to the Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) program solicitation (NSF 16-544). The INCLUDES program is a comprehensive national initiative designed to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) discoveries and innovations focused on NSF's commitment to diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation in these fields. The INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots represent bold, innovative ways for solving a broadening participation challenge in STEM. The full participation of all of America's STEM talent is critical to the advancement of science and engineering for national security, health and prosperity. Our nation is advancing knowledge and practices to address the STEM education practices for retaining and educating URM undergraduate STEM students at our nation's research intensive universities (RIs). This project, NSF INCLUDES: An Integrated Approach to Retain Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM Disciplines, has the potential to advance a collaborative approach by a group of organizations to improve the success of URM undergraduates in STEM disciplines.The collaborating universities will work together for the purposes of empowering URM students to more effectively navigate STEM undergraduate and graduate education at minority serving institutions (MSIs) and PWIs, and for transforming the culture of PWIs and RIs. The team plans to use evidence-based approaches to gain insights into cultural differences that impact the success of URM STEM students. Three interventions will be included in the pilot study: (1) undergraduate URM student exchanges between MSIs and PWIs, (2) collaborative inquiry to engage URM students in social science research about issues and experiences of under-representation in STEM, and (3) the adaptation of resources from the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) to train STEM faculty to embrace diversity and improve teaching in diverse classroom settings. The project team plans to develop strategies to scale approaches and develop an alliance of institutions to maximize potential project outcomes.