Planning: Academic Center of Excellence in STEM (ACES) through the Arts

传统黑人学院和大学本科项目（HBCU-UP）为加强hbcu的STEM本科教育和研究提供支持。将美术和表演艺术作为教学STEM的工具，为吸引更广泛的本科生提供了机会。佛罗里达纪念大学寻求创新课程设计和制度变革，以增加HBCU学生在STEM领域的招聘和保留。作为推进综合艺术和STEM教学的一步，该规划项目汇集了一个合作的跨部门团队，执行一系列活动，为通过艺术实现STEM学术卓越中心的全面发展奠定基础。该项目旨在组建一个团队，为通过艺术教学STEM的无缝和有凝聚力的制度范式转变开辟有效途径。该规划项目与HBCU- up项目的目标一致，即创造机会增加HBCU STEM领域本科生的数量。该项目旨在共同设计一项计划，以确定最适合整合和合作教学的艺术和STEM课程，探索将艺术和STEM教师配对的合作教学模式，以改进的教学法教授传统的STEM课程，确定非数学/非化学课程中代数、微积分和化学教学概念的设计，并根据提高学生参与度的游戏化原则规划课程。学生的反馈将通过正式评估纳入计划。该项目与该机构统一的沉浸式体验式学习计划是一致的，该计划旨在增加有准备、有竞争力和就业准备的毕业生的数量，这些毕业生将以科学家、技术人员、工程师和数学家的身份进入劳动力市场，或者追求STEM研究生教育和研究事业。该机构的目的是利用从规划活动中吸取的经验教训，编写一份执行提案。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。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provides support to strengthen STEM undergraduate education and research at HBCUs. Using the Fine and Performing Arts as vehicles for teaching STEM provides opportunities to engage a broader audience of undergraduate students. Florida Memorial University seeks to innovate curriculum design and institutional change to increase recruitment and retention of HBCU students in STEM fields. As a step towards the advancement of integrated Arts and STEM instruction, this planning project brings together a collaborative interdepartmental team to execute a set of activities to establish the foundation for full development of a Center for STEM Academic Excellence through the Arts. The project aims to assemble a team to unlock effective pathways for a seamless and cohesive institutional paradigm shift in teaching STEM through the Arts. This planning project aligns with the goals of the HBCU-UP program in building opportunities to increase the number of HBCU undergraduate students in STEM fields.This project aims to co-design a plan to identify the most appropriate Arts and STEM courses for integration and co-teaching, explore co-teaching models that pair Arts and STEM faculty for teaching traditional STEM courses with modified pedagogy, identify designs for teaching concepts of algebra, calculus, and chemistry in non-math/non-chemistry courses, and plan curriculum based on gamification principles that heighten student engagement. Student feedback will be incorporated in the plan through formal assessments. The project is consistent with the institution’s unified immersive experiential learning plan for increasing the number of prepared, competitive, and employment-ready graduates who enter the workforce as scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians or pursue STEM graduate education and research careers. The institution aims to use the lessons learned from the planning activities to develop an implementation proposal submission.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.