HSIs New to NSF: Los Futuros de STEM (STEM Futures): Building Student Success in STEM

改善本科生STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划(HSI计划)旨在加强本科生STEM教育，并在HSIS建设能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该项目通过在普韦布洛社区学院建设能力，满足STEM渠道中的低收入学生的需求，实现了这些目标的一部分。该项目将创建STEM专业发展计划，加强学生支持，并开发必要的补充指导。预计这些能力建设努力将提高普韦布洛社区学院STEM课程的学生入学率和毕业率。该项目还将通过与当地行业的合作伙伴关系，让学生参与STEM职业生涯，使学生能够在STEM中建立未来。该项目将开发普韦布洛社区学院的教育体验，包括校园拓展、有针对性的招聘、课程重新设计、密切咨询、学术警报和教职员工专业发展。该项目的目标是提高STEM学生的成功，包括入学、表现、坚持不懈、毕业和转到四年制STEM学位课程。学生将接受教师指导，以提高自我效能感和科学素养。学习将通过创建独特的补充指导课程来加强，以提高学习成绩、自我效能和坚持不懈。补充教学结构将针对第一学期学生经常选修的数学、生物和物理课程而开发。科学课程的补充指导将包括与STEM教师导师、学生同行导师和行业合作伙伴的互动，以进一步将课程内容与STEM项目和职业联系起来。这个项目将调查如何发展有效的个人、课程和学术支持，以促进STEM专业的学生入学和坚持不懈。通过收集定量和定性数据，该项目将在社区大学层面产生关于刺激学生在STEM取得成功的因素的新知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program) aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI program will also generate new knowledge about how to achieve these aims. This project fulfills part of those aims by building capacity at Pueblo Community College to meet the needs of low-income students in the STEM pipeline. The project will create a STEM professional development program, enhance student supports, and develop co-requisite supplemental instruction. It is expected that these capacity building efforts will increase student enrollment and graduation rates in STEM programs at Pueblo Community College. This project will also engage students in STEM careers through partnerships with local industry so that students can build a future in STEM. The project will develop the Pueblo Community College educational experience that includes campus outreach, targeted recruitment, curricular redesign, close advising, academic alerts, and faculty/staff professional development. The goal of the project is to increase STEM student success, including enrollment, performance, persistence, graduation, and the transfer to four-year STEM degree programs. Students will receive faculty mentoring to improve self-efficacy and scientific literacy. Learning will be enhanced via the creation of unique supplemental instruction courses to improve academic performance, self-efficacy, and persistence. The supplemental instruction structure will be developed for mathematics, biology, and physical sciences course often taken by first-semester students. The supplemental instruction in science courses will include interactions with STEM faculty mentors, student peer mentors, and industry partners to further connect the course content to STEM programs and careers. This project will investigate how to develop effective personal, curriculum, and academic supports that promote student enrollment and persistence in STEM majors. By collecting both quantitative and qualitative data, the project will generate new knowledge about factors that stimulate student success in STEM at the community college level.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.