Increasing the Academic and Career Success of Alaska Native and Rural Students in Science and Math

该项目将通过增加阿拉斯加东南大学学术人才，低收入农村和阿拉斯加原住民学生的招聘，保留和毕业来解决国家对熟练科学家和数学家的需求。 为此，该项目将为22名攻读生物学、海洋生物学、渔业、环境科学或数学学士学位的本科生提供奖学金。第一年的学者将获得长达四年的奖学金支持，转学学者将获得长达两年的奖学金支持。 所有学者将创建一个个人发展计划（IDP）与教师导师合作。 该计划将作为学者学术和职业规划的蓝图。 此外，第一年的学者预计将通过参加第一年的研讨会，重点是学术技能建设和职业发展显着提高他们的学术成就。 该计划还计划改善学者对学生支持服务的使用，预计这一变化将提高阿拉斯加土著和农村学生的STEM学位完成率和职业成功率。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就的本科生与证明财政需要完成STEM学位。该项目的具体目标是：（1）提高STEM学生一年级的保留率和毕业率;（2）增加STEM学生对高影响力劳动力发展活动的参与;（3）实施、调整和研究IDP作为一项可持续战略，以提高低收入、学术天赋STEM学生的成功。 该项目将使用IDP为每个学生作为一种工具，以：（1）帮助学生阐明，计划，并监测学术进展的学术和职业目标;（2）支持学生过渡到大学;（3）促进结构化的教师辅导;（4）催化学生使用学术和社会支持服务;（5）包括雇主的职业规划;及（6）发展回应性的课外活动，以支持学生的成功。该项目的研究议程探讨职业决策自我效能作为个人发展规划的一个重要组成部分。从研究和评估活动中收集的数据将用于提高机构能力，在资助期间和之后为阿拉斯加土著和农村学生提供服务。 该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，旨在增加获得STEM领域学位的低收入学术人才的数量。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will address the national need for skilled scientists and mathematicians by increasing the recruitment, retention, and graduation of academically talented, low-income rural and Alaska Native students at the University of Alaska Southeast. To this end, the project will provide scholarships to 22 undergraduates pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Biology, Marine Biology, Fisheries, Environmental Science, or Mathematics. First-year Scholars will receive up to four years of scholarship support and transfer Scholars will receive up to two years of scholarship support. All Scholars will create an Individual Development Plan (IDP) in partnership with a faculty mentor. This plan will serve as a blueprint for the Scholars’ academic and career planning. In addition, first-year Scholars are expected to significantly increase their academic success by attending a first-year seminar focused on academic skill building and career development. The program also plans to improve Scholars’ use of student support services, anticipating that this change will increase STEM degree completion and career success for Alaska Native and rural students. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project’s specific aims are to: (1) increase first-year retention and graduation of STEM students; (2) increase STEM student participation in high-impact workforce development activities; and (3) implement, adapt, and study the IDP as a sustainable strategy to increase the success of low-income, academically talent STEM students. This project will use an IDP for each student as a tool to: (1) help students articulate, plan for, and monitor academic progress towards academic and career goals; (2) support student transitions to the university; (3) facilitate structured faculty mentoring; (4) catalyze student use of academic and social support services; (5) include employers in career planning; and (6) develop responsive co-curricular activities to support student success. The project’s research agenda explores career decision self-efficacy as a critical component of individual development planning. Data collected from the research and evaluation activities will be used to improve institutional capacity to serve Alaska Native and rural students during and after the funding period. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.