Conference Proposal: Two-Year/Four-Year Campus Research Communities Examining STEM Transfer Pathways

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院通过努力显著增加成功完成科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的高质量学位课程的学生数量，使STEM劳动力多样化。特别强调通过创新的招聘和保留战略和经验来改变STEM教育，以支持在STEM学科中历来代表性不足的群体：非洲裔美国人、阿拉斯加原住民、美洲印第安人、西班牙裔美国人、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。加州大学欧文分校(UCI)将于2022年7月在加州公立高等教育部门内召开一次为期两年和四年的校园研究社区(CRC)会议，研究该州为拉美裔服务的机构的STEM转移途径。拉丁裔学生在加州和全国的本科生中占有相当大的比例，然而，大学在留住STEM领域的拉丁裔学生方面不太成功，导致他们在STEM劳动力中的代表性不足。具体地说，会议旨在(1)授权CRC利用机构数据来确定校园STEM学生实现迁移成功的程度；(2)通过集体确定一套学生社会化结果(如归属感)和相应的有效工具，让参与者可以用来衡量成功程度，扩大迁移途径成功的定义；以及(3)通过实施机构数据分析计划和测试调查工具，评估每个参与校园的迁移支持结构的有效性。每个合作研究中心将由一所两年制学院和一所邻近的四年制大学组成，从而形成对这两个机构的学生都有利的伙伴关系，并建立超出会议范围的关系。CRC将包括STEM教员、校园管理人员、机构研究人员和参与转学编程的个人。这一广泛的代表性将确保各区域中心包括必要的利益攸关方，以利用项目调查结果。这种会议设计将使每个园区熟悉访问和分析其机构数据，这些数据通常是一种未得到充分利用的资源，用于未来的决策过程。将根据会议活动开发一个网站和案例研究，并将广泛传播。会议的成果有可能让其他高等教育系统了解STEM对这些学科中历史上代表性不足的人群的成功转移和保留做法。这一奖项反映了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。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming STEM education through innovative recruitment and retention strategies and experiences in support of groups historically under-represented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The University of California-Irvine (UCI) will convene a conference of two- and four-year campus research communities (CRCs) within the California Public Higher Education sector in July 2022 to examine the STEM Transfer Pathway at Hispanic-serving institutions in the state. Latinx students comprise a significant fraction of undergraduates in California and across the nation, yet colleges are less successful at retaining Latinx students within STEM fields, resulting in their under-representation within the STEM workforce. Specifically, the conference aims to (1) empower CRCs to leverage institutional data to determine the degree to which the campus’ STEM students achieve transfer success; (2) expand the definition of transfer pathway success by collectively identifying a set of student socialization outcomes (such as sense of belonging) and corresponding validated instruments that participants can use to measure success; and, (3) evaluate the effectiveness of a transfer support structure at each participating campus by implementing the institutional data analysis plan and testing the survey instrument. Each CRC will consist of a two-year college and a neighboring four-year university, resulting in partnerships that are beneficial for students at both institutions and the establishment of relationships that extend beyond the conference. CRCs will include STEM faculty, campus administrators, institutional research staff, and individuals involved in transfer student programming. This broad representation will ensure that CRCs include the necessary stakeholders to take advantage of project findings. This conference design will familiarize each campus with accessing and analyzing their institutional data, often an under-utilized resource, for future decision-making processes. A website and case study will be developed from conference activities and will be disseminated broadly. The conference outcomes have the potential to inform other higher education systems on successful transfer and retention practices in STEM for populations historically underrepresented in these disciplines.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.