HSI Institutional Transformation Project Voces (Voices for Organizing Change in Educational Systems)

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项目旨在通过将学生产生的策略和行动整合到教师专业发展和大学运营中来改变大学实践，从而改善学生在所有STEM学科的学习和毕业成功。HSIS的学生带来了丰富的经验，经历了无数的教育途径。然而，他们丰富的经验通常是一种未得到充分利用的资源，没有纳入体制决策。该项目将利用学生的经验，通过建立STEM voceros计划、创建与学生为合作伙伴的教师专业发展以及整合学生视角的机构实践和政策，可持续地提高佛罗里达国际大学(FIU)的学生成功。这项工作的预期成果包括新的学生主导的教育改进模式，这种模式可以在全国各地的高等专科学校改编和实施，并有可能改变教育系统，以更好地满足学生的需求。该项目的具体目标包括创建一场有弹性的制度变革运动，为FIU历史上代表性不足的学生群体提供STEM机会。该项目的核心是建立STEM voceros计划，该计划将培养和部署所有STEM学科的本科生，以系统地改善该机构的教学实践和政策。STEM voceros(字面意思是代表他人发言)将是参与教师专业发展的学生，通过多个组织的研讨会以及部署在STEM课堂上，共同促进和共同设计基于证据的课程，使我们高度多样化的学生群体参与，并导致改善教师实践和学生结果。Voeros将参与该项目的研究企业，以检查机构级的结果，并将他们以学生为中心的观点带到指导研究的地方。Voceros的教学和研究角色将有意让他们为STEM政策参与做好准备，这是他们的第三个主要角色。他们将1)在STEM部门之间进行STEM学位项目审查，以促进学生在项目设计方面的需求；2)建立学生指南针，这是一项年度问责审查，以促进所有学生的教育成果；3)建立学生指导委员会，以指导VOLES项目。这一多层次的设计将在整个教学实践、研究任务和机构政策与实践中整合我们不同的STEM学生的声音和经验。教师和大学领导层将变得依赖学生的声音，并创造机会重新设想决策规范，从而在金融情报院建立持续的系统性变化。VOICE将产生关于学生主导的机构变革模式的有效性的新知识，并增加我们对其对学生代理机构、教师实践以及HSI的机构结构和程序的影响的理解。这些战略和成果将通过已建立的网络和专业会议在当地以及全国范围内传播给伙伴机构。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将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 project aims to transform university practices by integrating student-generated strategies and actions into faculty professional development and university operations, thus, improving student learning and graduation success across all STEM disciplines. Students at HSIs bring a wealth of experiences and come through numerous educational pathways. However, the richness of their experiences is generally an underutilized resource and not integrated into institutional decisions. This project will utilize students' experiences to sustainably improve Florida International University's (FIU) student success through the establishment of a STEM Voceros program, creation of faculty professional development with students as partners, and institution practices and policies that integrate students' perspectives. The expected outcomes of this work include new student-led educational improvement models that can be adapted and implemented at HSIs across the nation and have the potential to transform educational systems to better serve students' needs.The specific aims of the project include creating a resilient institutional change movement that advances STEM opportunities for FIU's historically underrepresented student body. Central to the project is the establishment of the STEM Voceros program that will develop and deploy undergraduates across all STEM disciplines to improve instructional practice and policies systemically at the institution. STEM Voceros (literally, the one that speaks on behalf of others) will be students engaged in faculty professional development, through multiple organized workshops as well as deployed in STEM classrooms, co-facilitating and co-designing evidence-based curriculum that engages our highly diverse student body and leads to improved faculty practice and student outcomes. Voceros will be engaged in the project’s research enterprise to examine institution-level outcomes as well as bring their student-focused perspective to guide the research. The Voceros’ instructional and research roles will intentionally prepare them for STEM policy engagement, their third major role. They will 1) conduct STEM degree program reviews across STEM departments to promote student needs in program design, 2) establish a Student ComPASS, a yearly accountability review to promote the educational outcomes of all students, and 3) establish a student steering committee to guide the Voces project. This multi-layered design will integrate our diverse STEM students’ voice and experiences throughout the instructional practices, research mission and institutional policies and practices. Faculty and university leadership will become reliant on student voice and create the opportunity to re-envision the decision-making norms and thereby establish sustained systemic change at FIU. Voces will generate new knowledge on the effectiveness of student-led institutional change models, as well as increase our understanding of its impact on students' agency, faculty practices, and institutional structures and processes at an HSI. The strategies and outcomes will be disseminated locally to partner institutions as well as nationally through established networks and professional meetings. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also 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.