AAAS-NSF S-STEM Resource & Evaluation Center

NSF的STEM奖学金（S-STEM）计划的愿景是，所有美国人，无论经济状况如何，都可以攻读STEM学位，并为创新经济做出贡献。为此，美国科学促进会（AAAS）及其合作伙伴美国研究所（AIR），少数民族优质教育（QEM）和MN协会正在启动AAAS-NSF S-STEM资源和评估中心（REC），这将促进S-STEM利益相关者网络，以产生和传播新知识，成功实践，和有效的设计原则，产生于全国各地的NSF S-STEM项目。在其他重要活动中，REC将召开至少1,000名S-STEM学者的年度会议，为该计划的主要受益者建立一个社区：有才华的低收入STEM学生。 这个学者会议和更大的中心将吸引许多行业合作伙伴，这将支持学者在未来的STEM职业生涯中取得成功的能力。此外，该中心将策划和传播知识，提供技术援助，并在S-STEM网络内以及投资于支持低收入学生成功的更广泛的STEM教育工作者和专业人士社区共享资源。拟议的REC还将制作两份公开的国家报告，审查S-STEM计划对国内劳动力的国家影响，低收入学生成功的制度方法，以及个别学者。REC将通过分享支持S-STEM学者的有效，可复制的战略来建设S-STEM获奖者的能力，并通过向项目评估人员提供技术援助来建设S-STEM项目的能力。该中心将为S-STEM学者创造机会，共同扩大他们的学术和专业网络，了解学术和职业机会，并提高他们成为STEM劳动力熟练成员的能力。REC将在Yosso的社区文化财富理论框架内开展拟议的活动，该框架从资产的角度考虑大学的文化资本。Yosso的模型探讨了学生在大学环境中经常利用的才能，优势和经验，并且具有广泛的普遍性。 在此框架内，该中心将专门关注S-STEM学者的独特优势和机会，并更广泛地关注低收入学生。推进我们对招聘，留住，指导和支持来自低收入背景的高成就科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学生的循证最佳实践的了解对国家具有战略重要性。NSF的S-STEM计划为高等教育机构（IHE）提供奖励，为攻读本科或研究生学位的有才华的低收入STEM学生提供奖学金，并促进基于证据的课程和课外活动的适应，实施和研究，以促进招聘，保留，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得支持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。

The vision of NSF’s Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) program is that all Americans, regardless of economic status, may pursue a STEM degree and contribute to the innovation economy. To that end, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and its partners the American Institute for Research (AIR), Quality Education for Minorities (QEM), and MN Associates are launching the AAAS-NSF S-STEM Resource and Evaluation Center (REC), which will foster a network of S-STEM stakeholders to generate and disseminate new knowledge, successful practices, and effective design principles arising from NSF S-STEM projects across the nation. Among other important activities, the REC will convene an annual meeting of at least 1,000 S-STEM scholars to build a community for the program's main beneficiaries: talented low-income STEM students. This scholar meeting and the larger center, will engage a number of industry partners, which will support scholars' ability to succeed in their future STEM careers. In addition, the center will curate and disseminate knowledge, provide technical assistance, and share resources both within the S-STEM network and to the wider community of STEM educators and professionals invested in supporting the success of low-income students. The proposed REC will also produce two public national reports examining the S-STEM program's national impact on the domestic workforce, institutional approaches to low-income student success, and the individual scholars. The REC will build the capacity of S-STEM awardees by sharing effective, replicable strategies for supporting S-STEM Scholars and will also build the capacity of S-STEM projects by providing technical assistance to project evaluators. This center will create opportunities for the S-STEM scholars to come together to expand their academic and professional network, learn about academic and career opportunities, and increase their ability to become proficient members of the STEM workforce. The REC will ground the proposed activities within Yosso’s theoretical framework of Community Cultural Wealth which considers cultural capital in college from an asset approach. Yosso’s model explores the talents, strengths, and experiences that students often leverage within the college environment and is broadly generalizable. Within this framework, the center will specifically attend to the unique strengths and opportunities of S-STEM Scholars specifically and low-income students more broadly. Advancing our knowledge of evidence-based best practices for recruiting, retaining, mentoring, and supporting high-achieving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students from low-income backgrounds is of strategic importance for the nation. NSF’s S-STEM program provides awards to Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to fund scholarships to talented low-income STEM students pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees and to advance the adaptation, implementation, and study of evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities that promote recruitment, retention, and graduation in STEM for academically talented students with demonstrated financial need.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.