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

格鲁吉亚大学、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堡谷州立大学将领导这一设计与开发试点项目，以解决在主要是白色（PWI）和研究密集型（RI）大学就读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。 该项目是为了响应在工程和科学（NSF INCLUDES）计划征集（NSF 16-544）中代表性不足的发现者的学习者社区的全国包容性而创建的。INCLUDES计划是一项全面的国家计划，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，重点是NSF对这些领域的多样性，包容性和扩大参与的承诺。 INCLUDES设计和开发启动试点代表了解决STEM参与挑战的大胆创新方式。 所有美国STEM人才的充分参与对于科学和工程的进步对于国家安全、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密集型大学（RI）保留和教育URM本科STEM学生的STEM教育实践。该项目，NSF包括：一个综合的方法来保留在STEM学科代表性不足的少数民族学生，有可能推进一组组织的合作方法，以提高URM本科生在STEM学科的成功。合作大学将共同努力，使URM学生更有效地浏览STEM本科和研究生教育在少数民族服务机构（MSIs）和PWIs的目的，以及改变PWI和RI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）MSIs和PWIs之间的本科URM学生交流，（2）合作调查，让URM学生参与STEM中代表性不足的问题和经验的社会科学研究，以及（3）适应研究整合中心的资源，教学和学习（CIRTL）培训干教师拥抱多样性和改善教学在不同的课堂环境。 项目小组计划制定战略，扩大各种方法的规模，并建立一个机构联盟，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.