Building Capacity: Integrating Research, Mentoring, and Industry Collaborations to Improve STEM Recruitment and Retention

改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划（HSI计划）旨在加强本科STEM教育并建立HSI的能力。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。凤凰学院的这个项目将通过将多学科的基于课程的本科研究经验（CUREs）纳入整个地区大学的STEM课程来推进HSI计划的目标。该项目将为三个目标受众开发CUREs。对于非科学专业，它将开发一个以社区为基础的CURE模式，旨在提高科学素养，对科学的积极态度，并招募学生进入STEM专业。对于STEM专业，它将开发一个CURE模型，旨在增加STEM专业的保留、转学和学位完成。对于未来的STEM专业人士，它将开发一个劳动力CURE模型，旨在提高与劳动力相关的技能和对STEM职业的兴趣。该项目预计将有3000多名社区大学生参与。该项目的具体目标是：1)促进对STEM学科的兴趣，特别是来自STEM中代表性不足的群体的学生；2)增加招收和保留STEM入门课程的学生；3)增加两年制hsi学生转入四年制院校STEM学位课程的人数；4)与行业建立跨部门合作伙伴关系，以提高劳动力准备水平，提高两年制HSI学生对STEM职业的兴趣。该项目构建了一个全面的计划，用于在两年制和四年制大学的入门课程中开发、实施和评估cure。该项目将培训和指导社区学院教师开发多学科CURE模块，解决与大学研究人员、行业合作伙伴和当地社区相关的研究问题。识别与两年制hsi实施cure相关的独特障碍和最佳实践将为其他两年制和四年制机构提供有用的资源，包括希望提高学生从两年制到四年制课程转学成功率的两年制hsi。该项目产生的知识将在马里科帕县社区学院区系统内共享，并通过地方、区域和国家出版物和会议分发给更大的教育界。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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 on how to achieve these aims. This project at the Phoenix College will advance the aims of the HSI Program by incorporating multi-disciplinary Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) into STEM curricula in colleges throughout the district. The program will develop CUREs for three targeted audiences. For non-science majors, it will develop a community-based CURE model designed to promote science literacy, positive attitudes toward science, and recruitment of students into STEM majors. For STEM majors, it will develop a CURE model designed to increase retention, transfer and degree completion of STEM majors. For future STEM professionals, it will develop a workforce CURE model designed to improve workforce-related skills and interest in STEM careers. The program is expected to involve more than 3000 community college students. The specific goals of this project are to 1) promote increased interest in STEM disciplines, especially among students from groups that are underrepresented in STEM; 2) increase recruitment and retention of students in introductory STEM courses; 3) increase the number of students from two-year HSIs who transfer into STEM degree programs at four-year institutions; and 4) establish cross-sector partnerships with industry to improve workforce readiness and promote interest in STEM careers among two-year HSI students. The project has constructed a comprehensive plan for developing, implementing, and assessing CUREs in introductory courses at two- and four-year institutions. The program will train and mentor community college faculty in the process of developing multidisciplinary CURE modules that address research questions relevant to university researchers, industry partners, and the local community. Identification of the unique barriers and best practices associated with the implementation of CUREs at two-year HSIs will be a useful resource for other two-year and four-year institutions, including two-year HSIs that want to increase the transfer success of students from two-year to four-year programs. Knowledge generated from this project will be shared within the Maricopa County Community College District system, and distributed to the larger educational community through local, regional, and national publications and conferences.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.