Collaborative Research: Creating Academic Pathways in STEM (CAPS): A Model Ecosystem for Supporting Two-Year Transfer

销售线索提案ID：HRD 16- 1649201首席研究员：Sarah M Miller机构：科罗拉多大学博尔德分校提案标题：创建STEM学术途径（CAPS）：支持两年转学的模型生态系统合作提案ID：HRD 16- 1648697首席研究员：Heidi LoshbaughInstitution：近几十年来，丹佛社区学院的教育途径变得越来越复杂，今天的特点是有许多入口点，停止和开始，更长的时间来学位，并改变职业方向。 因此，STEM“管道”的比喻已经过时，目前的体制结构不太适合满足当今学生的教育需求。 该项目将在两年制学院，国家实验室，工业和科罗拉多博尔德大学之间建立协调的战略途径，旨在改变教育格局，为在两年制学院开始高等教育道路的学生提供机会。 在这样做的过程中，这些努力将扩大那些在STEM专业录取谁愿意从事和贡献知识和技能的STEM劳动力的参与。 该项目将建立联系并加强途径，以建立一个系统的，整体的和可持续的转移生态系统，这将大大增加科罗拉多2年制大学生继续攻读4年制STEM学位的人数。该项目将建立一个STEM教育网络（中心辐射系统），作为区域STEM教育合作的典范。这些努力将创造一个合作和转型的基础设施，简化STEM途径，为不同的学生从2至4年制大学。 通过开发以学生为中心的基础设施，重点降低和消除阻碍两年制大学生转学到四年制大学的障碍，该举措将鼓励有兴趣攻读STEM学士学位的才华横溢的两年制大学生成功转学，最终提高技术水平。科罗拉多及其他地区的能力。

Lead Proposal ID: HRD 16-1649201Principal Investigator: Sarah M MillerInstitution: University of Colorado Boulder Proposal Title: Creating Academic Pathways in STEM (CAPS): A Model Ecosystem for Supporting Two-Year Transfer Collaborated Proposal ID: HRD 16-1648697Principal Investigator: Heidi LoshbaughInstitution: Community College of DenverEducation pathways have grown increasingly complex in recent decades and today are characterized by a multitude of entry points, stops and starts, longer times to degrees, and changing career directions. As a result, the STEM "pipeline" metaphor has become outdated, and the current institutional structures are not well suited to meeting the educational needs of today's students. This project will create coordinated strategic pathways between 2-year colleges, national laboratories, industry, and the University of Colorado Boulder aimed at changing the educational landscape and facilitating opportunities for students who begin their higher education path at 2-year colleges. In doing so, these efforts will broaden participation among those matriculating in STEM majors who are ready to engage and contribute to a knowledgeable and skilled STEM workforce. This initiative will create links and strengthen pathways to establish a systematic, holistic and sustainable transfer ecosystem that will dramatically increase the number of Colorado 2-year college students that go on to pursue 4-year STEM degrees.This project will establish a network (hub and spoke system) in STEM education that will serve as a model for regional STEM education collaboration. These efforts will create a cooperative and transformational infrastructure that streamlines STEM pathways for diverse students from 2- to 4- year colleges. By developing a student-centered infrastructure focused on lowering and eliminating barriers that inhibit 2-year college student transfer to 4-year colleges, this initiative will encourage talented 2-year college students interested in pursuing a STEM baccalaureate to successfully transfer, ultimately advancing the technical capacity of Colorado and beyond.