HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Creating Connected College Research Communities

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），此轨道2：IEP将整合课程，课外活动和计划活动，以提高本科STEM教育的质量，并提高大量西班牙裔，农村，以及科罗拉多州立大学普韦布洛分校（CSU Pueblo）和地区社区学院的低收入家庭学生。课程活动包括重新设计的课程，重点是增加访问和包容性，将被整合到涉及本科生研究机会，导师和学生服务的联合课程活动，以及专业发展，科学素养，社区参与，和桥梁学士学位。该项目利用本科研究作为增加西班牙裔/拉丁裔，农村，以及在STEM领域获得学位的代表性不足的学生群体。 通过与区域社区学院，高中和CSU Pueblo的独特三位一体的合作伙伴关系，为科罗拉多南部和周边州代表性不足的少数民族提供服务，该项目将围绕共同的研究项目建立，以招募，保留和研究生进入STEM领域。它整合了一个精简和创新的途径，以STEM研究领域，特别是在生物学和野生动物和资源管理方面，通过在文化敏感的学习环境中令人兴奋的体验式学习体验。本项目将创建社区，为STEM学位授予项目中从中学教育过渡到本科教育的学生提供密集的指导，学生支持和归属感。本项目旨在改善：1）招募-通过利用学生对生物和野生动物区域问题/问题的固有兴趣，并招募他们参与研究项目; 2）保留-通过密集的导师和社区研究团队，为学生提供服务和支持; 3）MentoringCoaching -通过CSU Pueblo和中央社区学院的教师研究导师和教练，促进学生的演讲，出版物和出席全国会议&;和4）合作伙伴关系-与高中提供并行招生产品和中央社区学院提供无缝转移衔接协议，并制定计划，以准备学生立即和顺利过渡到生物学和/或野生动物和自然资源学士学位课程在CSU普韦布洛。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建立HSI的能力。实现这些目标，鉴于不同的性质和背景下的HSIs，需要创新的方法，激励机构和社区转型，促进基础研究（一）参与学生学习，（二）关于如何有效地多样化和增加STEM的参与，以及（三）提高我们对如何在HSIs建立机构能力的理解。HSI计划所支持的项目也将从这些方法中汲取经验，以产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2: IEP will integrate curricular, co-curricular, and programmatic activities to enhance the quality of undergraduate STEM education and to increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of students pursuing associates or baccalaureate degrees in STEM for large numbers of Hispanic, rural, and low-income students at Colorado State University-Pueblo (CSU Pueblo) and regional community colleges. The curricular activities consisting of redesigned coursework with a focus towards increased access and inclusion will be integrated to the co-curricular activities involving undergraduate research opportunities, mentorship, and student services, and the programmatic activities consisting of professional development, scientific literacy, community engagement, and bridges to BS degrees.This project utilizes undergraduate research as a pathway and catalyst for increasing the number of Hispanic/Latino, rural, and underrepresented student groups receiving degrees in STEM fields. Through a unique triad of partnerships with regional community colleges, high schools, and CSU Pueblo which serve underrepresented minorities in Southern Colorado and bordering states, this project will build around shared research projects to recruit, retain, and graduate students into STEM fields. It integrates a streamlined and innovative pathway towards STEM fields of study, particularly in biology and wildlife and resource management, via exciting experiential learning experiences within a culturally sensitive learning environment. This undergraduate research will create communities that provide intensive mentorship, student support, and a sense of belonging to transition students from secondary education to undergraduate education in STEM degree-granting programs.This project aims to improve : 1) Recruitment – by harnessing students’ inherent interest in biological and wildlife regional issues/problems and recruit them into research projects; 2) Retention - through intense mentorship and community research teams which provide students wrap around services and support; 3) Mentoring & Coaching – via faculty research mentors and coaches at CSU Pueblo and Central Community College fostering students’ presentations, publications, and attendance at national meetings; and 4) Partnerships - with high schools to provide concurrent enrollment offerings and with Central Community College to provide seamless transfer articulation agreements and develop programs to prepare students for immediate and smooth transition into the BS degree programs in Biology and/or Wildlife and Natural Resources at CSU Pueblo. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also draw from these approaches to generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.