Identifying Catalysts for Increasing Student Diversity in Engineering in a Predominantly White Institution

该项目旨在通过建设扩大本科生工程学参与的机构能力来服务于国家利益。在以白人为主的院校里，工程学院继续努力招收、留住和成功录取非白人学生。该项目采用系统办法，旨在找出能够统一方案努力的催化剂，以便在扩大参与方面取得更大的体制成功。这些催化剂可以存在于整个组织中，可以采取人员、知识、资金、政策、构建环境和其他资源的形式。一套连贯的方案努力可以带来更大的变革力和可持续性。该项目将生成模板，美国其他工程学院可以用来发现和了解自己的能力，并促进自己对代表性不足群体的学生的招生、留住和毕业工作。该项目的最终目标是使不同类型的工程学毕业生取得成功，并加强工程学劳动力的多样性。该项目的目标是在一所以白人为主的学院的工程学院内产生全系统的能力变化催化剂。该项目将学院概念化为一个复杂的社会技术组织，有两个工作子系统。社会子系统由学生、教职员工和管理员等人组成。技术子系统由可能影响能力建设的要素组成，包括目标、政策、流程、方案、数据、技术和诀窍。该项目使用半结构化访谈和思维焦点小组，来自招生、咨询和职业服务的学生、教师和工作人员以及行政领导。结果将用于对社会技术系统进行建模，开发系统能力矩阵和社会中心角色网络，并产生能力变化催化剂。该项目有助于查明和深入了解以白人为主的工程学院的全系统催化剂，使这些学院能够提高其招收、留住和成功录取人数不足学生的能力。该项目还贡献了一种新的社会技术系统透镜，并为使用该透镜来模拟教育单位提供了一个模板。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型轨道，该计划支持高等教育机构和学科社区转变和改进STEM教育的努力。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。

This project aims to serve the national interest by building institutional capacity for broadening participation in undergraduate engineering. Colleges of Engineering in predominantly white institutions continue to struggle to recruit, retain and successfully matriculate their non-white students. Using a systems approach, this project aims to identify catalysts that can unify programmatic efforts to produce greater institutional success in broadening participation. These catalysts can exist throughout an organization, and can take the form of people, knowledge, money, policies, built environments, and other resources. A coherent set of programmatic efforts can lead to greater transformative power and sustainability. The project will generate templates that other colleges of engineering in the United States can use to discover and understand their own capacities and to further their own recruitment, retention and graduation efforts for students from underrepresented groups. The ultimate aim of the project is to enable the success of a diverse pool of engineering graduates, and to strengthen the diversity of the engineering workforce. The goals of the project are to generate systemwide capacity change catalysts in a College of Engineering at a predominantly white institution. The project conceptualizes the college as a complex sociotechnical organization with two subsystems at work. The social subsystem consists of people such as students, faculty, staff, and administrators. The technical subsystem consists of elements that can impact capacity building, including goals, policies, processes, programs, data, technology, and know-how. The project uses semi-structured interviews and ideation focus groups with students, faculty, and staff from admissions, advising, and career services as well as administrative leaders. Results will be used to model the sociotechnical system, to develop system capacity matrices and social focal role networks, and to generate capacity change catalysts. The project contributes to identifying and understanding, in-depth, the systemwide catalysts in predominantly white engineering colleges that will enable these colleges to improve their capacity to recruit, retain and successfully matriculate underrepresented students. The project also contributes a new sociotechnical systems lens and lays out a template for using the lens to model an educational unit. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.