NSF INCLUDES: Enhancing the New Mexico STEM Pipeline - Design and Development Launch Pilot

该项目将协调和关注现有的教育要素，共同目标是增加代表性不足的少数民族在STEM学位课程和STEM劳动力中的参与。这一目标将有助于美国保持其在科学和工程创新方面的领导地位，同时支持扩大技术领域经济增长所需的人才库。 该计划将采用一个评估系统，解决社会影响因素和STEM技能的转移，旨在确定代表性不足的少数民族离开STEM管道的原因。通过包括STEM管道的课程和课外元素，从中学到大学，该计划将能够快速响应评估部分的调查结果，并采取积极措施留住STEM学生，并保持他们作为未来科学家或工程师的自我认知。 该计划建议评估，团结和协调新墨西哥州STEM管道中的元素，最终目标是增加STEM劳动力中代表性不足的群体的参与。发展多元化科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的必要性在整个新墨西哥州及其他地区都得到了公共和私营部门的认可。该项目开发了一个跨领域的评估系统，解决了STEM教育的社会影响因素和技能组成部分。该项目制定了一个集体影响框架，旨在增加STEM劳动力中代表性不足的少数群体的参与，并为6-20+ STEM管道中的学生实施共同评估系统。该评估系统将解决社会影响因素和STEM相关技能的转移，旨在建立一个研究基地，调查为什么来自代表性不足的少数民族的学生离开STEM管道。这项研究的成果将推动制定一套提高保留率的最佳做法，并制定一项改善少数民族学生融入STEM社区的计划。作为该计划的一部分开发的保留模式将通过一系列研讨会与STEM合作伙伴分享，目的是制定一种更加协调的方法来保留代表性不足的少数民族。 该计划侧重于一小部分STEM课程，与工程学院现有的联系。

This project will coordinate and focus existing educational elements with the common goal of increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM degree programs and the STEM workforce. This goal will help the US maintain its leadership in science and engineering innovation while supporting the expansion of the talent pool needed to fuel economic growth in technical areas. The program will feature an assessment system that addresses both social influence factors and the transfer of STEM skills with the aim of identifying the reasons that underrepresented minorities leave the STEM pipeline. By including both curricular and extracurricular elements of the STEM pipeline, ranging from middle school through college, the program will be able to respond quickly to findings from the assessment component and take proactive steps to retain STEM students and maintain their self perception as future scientists or engineers. The program proposes to assess, unite and coordinate elements in the New Mexico STEM pipeline with the ultimate goal of increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in the STEM workforce. The need to grow a diverse science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce is recognized throughout the State of New Mexico, and beyond, by both the public and private sectors. The project develops a crosscutting assessment system that addresses both social influence factors and the skills component of STEM education. The project develops a collective impact framework aimed at increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in the STEM workforce and implements a common assessment system for students in the 6-20+ STEM pipeline. This assessment system will address both social influence factors and the transfer of STEM related skills with the aim of building a research base to investigate why students from underrepresented minorities leave the STEM pipeline. The output from this research will drive the development of a set of best practices for increasing retention and a scheme for improving the integration of minority students into the STEM community. The retention model developed as part of the program will be shared with the STEM partners through a series of workshops with the goal of developing a more coordinated approach to the retention of underrepresented minorities. The program focuses on a small set of STEM programs with existing connections to the College of Engineering.