Inclusive Community Collaboration and Supportive Cohorts to Improve STEM Student Success

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，该项目将把以STEM为重点的教师实践社区与学生支持策略相结合，以提高在Chemeketa学院STEM学科中代表性不足的学生的入学率、持久性和学位成就。俄勒冈州对合格的STEM专业人员的需求正在增加，该项目旨在通过多样化来满足这一需求，从而扩大进入STEM劳动力的学生人数。将采用多种方法，包括旨在鼓励响应文化的教学实践的专业发展，以及加强学生支助服务，包括培养学生队伍、颁发奖学金和指导。在一所服务于西班牙裔的社区学院应用的这种策略组合，将产生关于直接财政支持、指导和教师专业发展的综合影响的新知识，以提高学生的成绩。该项目预计将增加女性和有色人种在STEM领域成功攻读和获得学位的人数。该项目将试点有针对性的学生支持和教师专业发展，以增加参与STEM研究领域的学生的入学率、保留率和学位获得率，这些学生的比例低于其在总人口中的比例。该学院将收集数据，以确定最有效的策略，以改善这所服务于西班牙裔社区学院的不同学生群体的本科STEM教育体验。数学教师将参加有关文化响应教学的专业发展研讨会，这将导致许多课程的重新设计。该项目将建立一批学生，这些学生将受益于奖学金，并有更多机会获得导师和课程导师。通过这些努力，学院希望确定一套核心实践，可以在所有STEM学科中系统地实施。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM参与，并在HSI进行能力建设。考虑到hsi的多样性和背景，实现这些目标需要创新的方法来激励机构和社区转型，并促进基础研究(1)关于参与式学生学习，(2)关于如何有效地使STEM多样化和增加参与，以及(3)提高我们对如何在hsi建立机构能力的理解。HSI计划支持的项目也将借鉴这些方法，为如何实现这些目标提供新的知识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 project will combine a STEM-focused faculty community of practice with student support strategies to improve the enrollment, persistence, and degree attainment of students who are underrepresented in their participation in STEM disciplines at Chemeketa College. The state of Oregon is experiencing an increased demand for qualified STEM professionals, and this project intends to meet that demand by diversifying, and hence expanding the population of students entering the STEM workforce. A combination of approaches will be used, including professional development aimed at encouraging culturally responsive teaching practices, and enhanced student support services including fostering of cohorts, awarding of scholarships, and mentoring. This combination of strategies, applied at an Hispanic-serving community college, will generate new knowledge regarding the combined impact of direct financial support, mentorship, and faculty professional development to improve student outcomes. This project is expected to lead to an increase in the number of women and persons of color successfully pursuing and attaining degrees in STEM fields.The project will pilot targeted student supports and faculty professional development in order to increase the enrollment, retention, and degree attainment of students whose participation in STEM fields of study is below that of their proportional representation in the overall population. The college will collect data to identify the strategies that are most effective in improving the undergraduate STEM education experience for a diverse body of students at this Hispanic-serving community college. Mathematics faculty will participate in professional development workshops on culturally responsive teaching that will lead to numerous course redesigns. The project will establish a cohort of students that will benefit from scholarships and increased access to mentors and course-embedded tutors. Through these efforts, the college expects to identify a core set of practices that can be enacted systematically across all STEM disciplines. 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.