Planning Grant: Bridging the STEM Gap - Enhancing STEM Education Using a Multitier Approach

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科项目为规划拨款提供支持，以研究和评估全面的机构努力，通过加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究来增加学生人数和他们的准备质量。南卡罗来纳州立大学的这个项目为重新设计基础STEM课程提供了一种战略方法，以提高学生的成功。该项目由正在进行的评估以及外部和内部咨询委员会指导和提供信息。该项目旨在建立STEM招聘，保留和成功中心，以创造一个保证STEM学生成功的环境。该中心将专注于STEM的招聘、保留和学生服务活动。许多规划活动涉及为该中心创造愿景和活动，通过在STEM门卫课程中采用创新的教学策略来提高STEM学生的保留率，为学生提供实习和研究经验，并为研究生院和劳动力做好准备。该项目将试点在物理和计算机科学入门课程中实施主动学习策略。与卡尔霍恩县学区和奥兰治堡卡尔霍恩技术学院的外展活动将进行。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 Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate program provides support for planning grants to study and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This project at South Carolina State University provides a strategic approach to redesigning foundational STEM courses to increase student success. The project is guided and informed by an on-going evaluation, as well as external and internal advisory committees. The project seeks to establish the STEM Recruitment, Retention, and Success Center to create an environment to guarantee STEM student success. The center will focus on STEM recruitment, retention and student service activities. Much of the planning activities involve creating the vision and the activities for this center to enhance STEM student retention by employing innovative teaching strategies in STEM gate-keeping courses, providing students with internships and research experiences, and preparing them for graduate school and the workforce. The project will pilot implementing active learning strategies in introductory Physics and Computer Science courses. Outreach activities with the Calhoun County School District and Orangeburg Calhoun Technical College will be conducted.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.