Broadening Participation Research: Investigating Faculty Influences on STEM Degree Production at HBCUs

Prairie View A&amp；M大学提议调查传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）教师在培养代表性不足的STEM学位本科生方面的作用。研究人员将开展一项涉及培养了大量非裔美国人STEM毕业生的HBCUs的混合方法研究项目，以确定教师对这一成功的贡献。该项目建立在先前对HBCU STEM项目中有学术天赋的非裔美国学生的研究基础上，该研究表明，有必要对教师对学生成功的影响进行更深入的研究。认识到HBCU文化和气候对学生成功的影响，研究人员将能够分离出教师的微妙作用。该项目的首要目标是更好地了解影响非裔美国学生在STEM专业的保留和成功的因素，并就教师如何为这些学生构建成功的大学经历提供见解。本研究将以社会资本、弹性和文化资本理论为指导。它将调查两个研究问题：HBCU教师如何支持少数民族学生坚持和保留STEM；哪些策略最有效地帮助少数族裔学生为研究生教育和STEM职业做好准备？研究将分两个阶段进行。第一阶段将包括从访谈、焦点小组和基于聊天的讨论中收集和分析定性数据。第二阶段将使用定性研究结果中的数据来开发一种定量工具，该工具将捕捉教师所阐述的影响非裔美国学生在STEM中的保留和成功的因素。数据将使用开放、轴向和选择性编码方法进行分析，以揭示突出的新兴类别和主题，并使用持续比较方法来获得对研究结果的额外见解。这项研究将为STEM教师的发展和培训提供一个模型，并为衡量STEM教师对成功的参与提供一个调查工具。

Prairie View A&M University proposes to investigate the role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) faculty in the production of underrepresented undergraduates with STEM degrees. The investigators will conduct a mixed methods research project involving HBCUs that produce significant numbers of African American STEM graduates to determine faculty contributions to that success. The project builds on previous research focused on academically gifted African American students enrolled in HBCU STEM programs that suggested the need for a more in-depth study of the faculty's influences on student success. Recognizing the confluence of HBCU culture and climate on student success, the researchers will be able to isolate the nuanced role of the faculty. The overarching goal of the project is to better understand factors that influence the retention and success of African American students in STEM and to produce insights about how faculty can structure successful collegiate experiences for these students.The proposed research project will be guided by social capital, resilience, and cultural capital theories. It will investigate two research questions: How do HBCU faculty support minority student persistence and retention in STEM; and what strategies are most effective in preparing underrepresented minority students for graduate education and STEM careers? The research will be conducted in two phases. The first phase will include the collection and analysis of qualitative data from interviews, focus groups, and chat-based discussions. The second phase will use data from the qualitative findings to develop a quantitative instrument that will capture the factors articulated by faculty that impact the retention and success of African American students in STEM. Data will be analyzed using open, axial, and selective coding methods to uncover salient emergent categories and themes, and the constant comparative method will be used to gain additional insights on the research findings. The research will will produce a model for STEM faculty development and training and a survey instrument for measuring STEM faculty engagement towards success.