Interdisciplinary STEM Education and Mentoring for Transitioning to STEM Success

在国家科学基金科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金(S-STEM)计划的资助下，该项目将支持胡德学院有经济需求的高成就、低收入学生。在整个为期五年的奖项中，该项目将为攻读生物、生物化学、化学、环境科学、数学、计算机科学和计算科学学士学位的学生提供12个四年期奖学金和6个两年期奖学金。该项目旨在增加低收入和有学术天赋的STEM毕业生的数量，重点关注代表性不足的群体。该项目旨在展示和教育多个STEM学科的学生，使他们能够为未来高度跨学科的工作场所做出贡献。奖学金获得者将在学术上得到支持，直到毕业，以及进行研究并在专业会议上展示他们的研究成果。该项目有可能加强胡德学院四个STEM系之间的跨学科合作，并通过招收弗雷德里克社区学院的转学学生成为学者，加强其与弗雷德里克社区学院的现有关系。该项目旨在扩大现有的学生支持和课程改进的知识库，以开发最佳实践，为学生进入跨学科的STEM劳动力做准备。该项目将发展和提供一年级学生的支持，重点是跨学科的STEM学习。纵向学术支持，包括辅导，将帮助学生在他们的学术生涯中取得进步。该项目将开发和实施一个创新的暑期过渡计划，为正在崛起的三年级学生(包括转学学生)做好准备，使他们在进入高级STEM课程工作时能够更加严格。该项目将分析定性和定量数据，以确定STEM第一年研讨会和STEM研究方法导论课程在支持坚持STEM学位方面的效果。该项目还将分析夏季过渡课程在帮助三年级学生为高级课程工作做准备方面的成效，从而提高STEM学位课程的保留率。该项目还将调查跨学科STEM队列模型如何提高学生的自我效能感和为STEM劳动力做出贡献的准备。该项目旨在产生证据，供其他寻求发展跨学科STEM项目的机构使用，为本科生为多样化的STEM工作队伍做好准备。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。

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, this project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Hood College. Throughout the five-year award, this project will fund 12 four-year scholarships and 6 two-year scholarships for students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, environmental science, mathematics, computer science, and computational science. The project seeks to increase the number of STEM graduates who are low-income and academically talented, with a focus on underrepresented groups. The project aims to expose and educate students in multiple STEM disciplines so that they may contribute to future workplaces that are highly interdisciplinary. The Scholars will be supported academically until graduation, as well as to conduct research and to present their research at professional conferences. The project has the potential to enhance interdisciplinary collaborations among Hood College's four STEM departments and strengthen its existing relationship with Frederick Community College, by recruiting transfer students from Frederick Community College to become Scholars.This project aims to expand the current knowledge base for student supports and curricular enhancements to develop best practices in preparing students to enter an interdisciplinary STEM workforce. The project will develop and provide first-year student supports with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary STEM learning. The longitudinal academic supports, including mentoring, will assist students as they progress through their academic career. The project will develop and implement an innovative Summer Transition program to prepare rising juniors (including transfer students) for an increase in rigor as they move to upper-division STEM course work. The project will analyze qualitative and quantitative data to determine the efficacy of the STEM First-Year Seminar and Introduction to STEM Research Methods courses in supporting persistence to a STEM degree. The project will also analyze the efficacy of the Summer Transition course in preparing juniors for upper-division course work, thus increasing retention in STEM degree programs. The project will also investigate how the interdisciplinary STEM cohort model increases student self-efficacy and preparedness to contribute to the STEM workforce. The project seeks to generate evidence that can be used by other institutions seeking to develop interdisciplinary STEM programs to prepare undergraduate students for a diverse STEM workforce.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.