Implementation Project: Increasing Degree Production through STEM Entrepreneurship and Career Development Activities

历史上的黑人学院和大学的实施项目-本科生方案为设计、实施、研究和评估全面的机构努力提供支持，以通过加强科学、技术、工程和数学教育和研究，增加学生人数和提高他们的准备质量。哈里斯-斯托州立大学（HSSU）是一所小型、公立、开放式的HBCU，该实施项目提供了一种多层次的方法，以扩大非洲裔美国学生在STEM专业取得成功的机会。该项目重点关注STEM职业和劳动力发展途径，为学生提供创业能力和技能，这些能力和技能具有足够的适应性和灵活性，能够以竞争力应对不断变化的STEM劳动力需求以及研究生院的准备。该项目由正在进行的评估和研究以及内部和外部咨询委员会指导和提供信息。该项目建立在两个非常成功的先前实施项目的基础上，这些项目在大学建立了STEM项目。它将实施各种旨在灌输创业心态的活动，介绍真实的世界STEM经验，并为STEM学生建立重要的非认知技能，以提高保留率，毕业和研究生院或劳动力准备。这将通过以下目标来实现：引入重新设计的课程和课外活动，旨在扩大学生对STEM职业道路的理解，并引入和促进创业思维和技能;有活动可以从社区学院转移到HSSU的学生群体;并促进认知和非认知技能对于当代STEM劳动力或研究生院的成功至关重要。该项目有望在大学和周边社区产生广泛而广泛的影响。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Implementation Projects in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provide support to design, implement, 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 implementation project at Harris-Stowe State University (HSSU), a small, public, open-access HBCU, provides a multilayered approach to broaden opportunities for African-American students to succeed in STEM majors. The project has a strong focus on STEM careers and workforce development pathways to provide students with entrepreneurial competencies and skills that are adaptive and flexible enough to respond competitively to changing STEM workforce needs as well as graduate school preparation. The project is guided and informed by an on-going evaluation and a research study, as well as by internal and external advisory committees.The project builds on two very successful previous implementation projects that established STEM programs at the university. It will implement a variety of activities designed to instill an entrepreneurial mindset, introduce real world STEM experiences and build important non-cognitive skill sets for STEM students with the goal to increase retention, graduation and graduate school or workforce readiness. This will be accomplished by the objectives to: introduce reimagined curriculum and co-curricular activities designed to expand students' understanding of STEM career paths and introduce and promote an entrepreneurial mindset and skills; have activities to onboard cohorts of students that transfer to HSSU from community colleges; and promote cognitive and noncognitive skills critical for success in the contemporary STEM workforce or graduate school. This project promises to have wide-reaching broader impacts at the university and in the surrounding community.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.