HSI Institutional Transformation Project: Unified Community of Support - Building Capacity for STEM Transfer Students’ Success (UCS-STSS)

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI)计划的支持下，这个Track 3 ITP项目旨在(1)通过统一的支持社区建设机构内的能力；(2)创建系统和持续的制度变革，支持STEM导师实施循证做法，提高STEM学生的公平结果；(3)建立跨地区转移联盟的机构间能力，以提高STEM学生的转移率和转移成功率；以及(4)实施以理论为指导的迭代研究设计，重点是提高对高等教育行为者和机构如何在系统的背景下开展能力建设的理解，以及如何利用交叉性框架增加科技教育管理的公平参与和取得成功。这项工作将在HSIS的背景下推进对高等教育中支配和抵抗系统的新认识。它将探索如何扰乱教育不平等的社会再生产。该项目的更广泛影响将包括改善未被充分代表的少数群体在STEM中的参与和成功，加强学术界之间真正的合作与伙伴关系，加强STEM教育研究的基础设施和能力，并将其应用于高等教育中的STEM教育政策。该项目的具体目标是解决机构和系统范围的结构变化，以加强本科生STEM教育，并通过理论指导的研究提高STEM转移的成功率。这将通过以勒文的变革理论、交叉性框架(Núňez 2014)、统一支持社区模型(Kezar&Amp；Holcombe 2017)和Shlossberg的过渡理论为基础的迭代研究设计来实现。预期成果将是改善STEM咨询、改善STEM教学和指导、增加联合课程活动的机会、更公平地参与和取得成果、提高学生的成绩、以及机构内和机构间长期可持续的结构变化。这一项目的结果将以各种方式传播。研究成果将通过会议分享，并提交给同行评议的期刊发表。这项由STEM教职员工进行的行动研究的结果将通过每年举行的公开邀请海报会议在当地分享，并将鼓励这些教职员工将他们的发现提交给同行评议的期刊。项目资源将在项目网站上共享，包括转移计划和荣誉计划结构等政策文件。这些资源将免费向公众开放。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建设HSIS的能力。鉴于高等教育机构的不同性质和背景，实现这些目标需要创新的方法，以激励机构和社区的变革，并促进基础研究(I)关于学生参与式学习，(Ii)关于如何有效地多样化和增加对STEM的参与，以及(Iii)提高我们对如何建设高等教育机构能力的理解。HSI计划支持的项目也将从这些方法中获得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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program, this Track 3 ITP project aims to (1) build intra-institutional capacity through a Unified Community of Support; (2) create systemic and sustained institutional change that supports STEM Mentors in implementing evidence-based practices that enhance equitable student outcomes in STEM; (3) build inter-institutional capacity across a Regional Transfer Alliance to enhance STEM student transfer rates and transfer success; and (4) implement a theory-guided iterative research design focused on improving the understanding of how actors and institutions in higher education work within a systemic context to build capacity and on how to increase equitable participation and success in STEM using an intersectionality framework. This work will advance new knowledge of systems of domination and resistance in higher education within the context of HSIs. It will explore how to disrupt social reproduction of educational inequity. Broader impacts of the project will include improving the participation and success of underrepresented minorities in STEM, increasing authentic collaboration and partnerships among academia, and enhancing the infrastructure and capacity for STEM education research and its application to STEM education policy in higher education. Specific aims of the project are to address institution and system-wide structural change to enhance undergraduate STEM education and improve STEM transfer success through theory-guided research. This will be accomplished through an iterative research design that is grounded in Lewin’s Theory of Change, an intersectionality framework (Núňez 2014), a model of Unified Community of Support (Kezar & Holcombe 2017), and Shlossberg’s Transition Theory. Expected results will be improved STEM advising, improved STEM teaching and mentoring, enhanced opportunity for co-curricular activities, more equitable participation and outcomes, improved student success, and long-term sustainable intra- and inter-institutional structural change. Findings resulting from this project will be disseminated in a variety of ways. The research findings will be shared through conferences and submitted for publication to peer reviewed journals. Findings from the action research, conducted by the STEM faculty, will be shared locally through a public-invited poster session held annually and these faculty members will be encouraged to submit their findings to a peer reviewed journal. Project resources will be shared on the project website, including transfer plans and policy documents such as the Honors Program structure. These resources will be freely available to the public. 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.