HSI Institutional Transformation Project: Creating Opportunities for Minoritized Students to Participate in Faculty Mentored Research

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）计划，这个轨道3机构转型项目（ITP）旨在建立基于证据和公平的研究培训中心ESTUDIO：本科生卓越学生培训，加州州立大学多样性倡议办公室，北岭（CSUN）。ESTUDIO -这意味着“一项研究”或“研究”在西班牙语-将使CSUN规模的本科研究的高影响力的做法（HIP），并为学生创造机会，从事这个HIP，同时也集中辅导作为教师生活的一部分，并加强能力和专业发展的导师。证据是明确的，在有能力的导师指导下进行的本科研究可以支持所有学生的成功，并显着减少或消除STEM中的公平差距。本研究旨在将联合收割机数十年的经验与HIP和文献中的证据相结合，将ESTUDIO创建为一个永久性和可持续的校园实体，为CSUN STEM社区的6，000名少数民族学生和500名教师提供服务。通过扩展，部署和测试基于公平理论基础的循证培训模块和证书的异步和同步基础设施，该项目旨在覆盖广大的从业者社区，缩小普遍和持续的公平差距，建立公平的指导能力，并传播内容和模型，以适当扩展和复制其他HSI的这些努力。 具体目标是：1）为所有本科STEM学生扩展研究的HIP; 2）促进和中心基于公平的导师制在教师保留和任期; 3）使用理论构建，创建新的知识和模型，可以通过不同规模和手段的HSI。该项目旨在共同创建ESTUDIO在CSUN作为一个校园范围内的实体，并扩大（~80）经过彻底测试和有效的同步（面对面，在线和混合）本科STEM培训模块，并为CSUN学生和教师导师创建基于股权的相关证书课程。大约40%的模块和证书将转换为在线，自适应和异步模式，以达到广泛的受众，并允许适当的传播。这项工作将涉及支持由四名教师研究员进行的研究项目，他们是CSUN新兴的STEM和STEM教育学者。调查人员和教职员工还将共同研究机构层面的计划实施流程和指标，以确定：1）最具影响力和可移植性的ESTUDIO所需的最低可行版本; 2）减少教师期望与学生需求之间差距的有效方法;以及3）创建以学生为中心和与导师一致的保留和晋升标准的路径。这项工作的更广泛的影响是催化CSUN的文化转变，这将成为其他HSI的典范，包括CSU系统中的几个HSI校区，为超过50万名学生提供服务。这与NSF的HSI计划相一致，该计划旨在加强本科STEM教育并建立HSI的能力。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 Track 3 Institutional Transformation Project (ITP) aims to establish the evidence- and equity-based research training hub ESTUDIO: Excellence in Student Training for Undergraduates, Diversity Initiative Office at the California State University, Northridge (CSUN). ESTUDIO – which means “a study” or “research” in Spanish – will allow CSUN to scale the high-impact practice (HIP) of undergraduate research and create opportunities for students to engage in this HIP, while also centering mentoring as part of faculty life and bolster capacity and professional development for mentors. The evidence is unequivocal that undergraduate research under competent mentorship can support the success of all students and significantly diminish or eliminate equity gaps in STEM. This study aims to combine decades-long experience with HIPs and evidence in the literature to create ESTUDIO as a permanent and sustainable campus-wide entity that serves the CSUN STEM community of ~6,000 minoritized students and 500 faculty. By expanding, deploying, and testing an asynchronous and synchronous infrastructure of evidence-based training modules and certificates rooted in an equitable theoretical foundation, this project aims to reach a large community of practitioners, close pervasive and persistent equity gaps, build equitable mentorship capacity, and disseminate content and models to appropriately scale and duplicate these efforts at other HSIs. The specific aims are to: 1) scale the HIP of research for all undergraduate STEM students; 2) promote and center equity-based mentorship in faculty retention and tenure; 3) using a theoretical construct, create new knowledge and models that can be adopted by HSIs of varying sizes and means. This project aims to co-create ESTUDIO at CSUN as a campus-wide entity and expand (to ~80) thoroughly tested and efficacious synchronous (in-person, online, and hybrid) undergraduate STEM training modules and to create equity-based and relevant certificate programs for CSUN students and faculty mentors. Approximately 40% of modules and certificates will be converted to an online, adaptive, and asynchronous modality to reach a broad audience and allow for appropriate dissemination. This work will involve support for research projects conducted by four faculty fellows who are emerging STEM and STEM education scholars at CSUN. Together, the investigators and faculty fellows will also study institutional level program implementation processes and metrics to determine: 1) the required minimum viable version of ESTUDIO with most impact and transportability; 2) effective approaches to reducing the gap between faculty expectations and students needs; and 3) the path to creating student-centered and mentorship-aligned retention and promotion criteria. The broader impact of this work is to catalyze a cultural shift at CSUN that will serve as a model for other HSIs, including several HSI campuses in the CSU system, serving over 500,000 students. This aligns with NSFs HSI Program, which 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.