HSI Planning Project: Undergraduate Institutions Developing Opportunities in STEM (UNIDOS)

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1项目旨在扩大历史上代表性不足的人口的参与，这些人口集中在两个邻近的西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），圣达菲社区学院和北方新墨西哥州学院。本科院校STEM发展机会（UNIDOS）项目将建立与公共和私营部门区域合作伙伴的关系，为当地青年提供科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）方面的教育培训机会。 这些活动旨在拥抱文化价值观和传统，并尊重土著和西班牙裔人口的丰富知识。基于对社区需求和区域STEM劳动力预期职业差距的积极和合作探索，合作伙伴将开发和修改STEM学位和证书课程，并解决录取学生的整体需求，以促进学生的学业成功和STEM职业准备。UNIDOS模型预测，当有共同目标的实体工作时，代表性不足的学生面临的重大挑战得到最好的解决一起为此，该项目将建立一个STEM咨询理事会，由来自公共和私人STEM劳动力、STEM教育倡导团体、专业人士、教育工作者和大学管理人员的代表组成。与有价值的社区合作伙伴建立合作关系，预计将为学生创造职业机会，包括实习经验，这将提高进入STEM劳动力的代表性不足的个人的就业准备。 此外，UNIDOS将为当地青年提供STEM教育培训机会，以激发他们对STEM教育/职业的兴趣，促进学生进入大学，并促进STEM学位课程的参与/完成。伙伴机构将与私营实体合作，为参与的青年制定课程，向他们介绍与文化相关的科学职业/研究，并使学生能够发展与其文化价值观和传统不相冲突的STEM身份。STEM教师将在提供课程方面发挥重要作用，并与旨在识别和纠正不公平的教学实践并减轻语言障碍的专业发展机会一起，将产生一个包容性的STEM学习氛围，并庆祝学生丰富的文化知识。通过这些努力，增强STEM教育的多样性将产生一支具有广泛知识基础的劳动力队伍，这可以激励集体经验和合作竞争的包容精神推动的创新。HSI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 1 project aims to broaden the participation of historically underrepresented populations centered around two proximate Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Santa Fe Community College and Northern New Mexico College. The Undergraduate Institutions Developing Opportunities in STEM (UNIDOS) project will build upon relationships with regional partners, from both the public and private sectors, to provide educational training opportunities for local youth in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). These activities are designed to embrace cultural values and traditions and honors the wealth of knowledge from Indigenous and Hispanic populations. Based upon an active and collaborative exploration of community needs and anticipated vocational gaps in the regional STEM workforce, partners will develop and modify STEM degree and certificate programs and address the holistic needs of matriculating students to promote student academic success and STEM career readiness.The UNIDOS model predicts that the significant challenges underrepresented students face are best addressed when entities that share common goals work together. To this end, the project will establish a STEM Advisory Council, composed of representatives from both the public and private STEM workforce, STEM education advocate groups, professionals, educators, and college administrators. Generating a collaborative relationship with valued community partners is expected to generate vocational opportunities for students, including internship experiences that will enhance the job readiness for underrepresented individuals entering the STEM workforce. Additionally, UNIDOS will provide educational training opportunities in STEM for local youth to stimulate interest in STEM education/careers, facilitate student matriculation into college, and promote STEM degree program participation/completion. Partnering institutions will engage with private entities to develop curricula for participating youth that introduces them to culturally relevant careers/research in science and enables students to develop a STEM identity that does not conflict with their cultural values and traditions. STEM faculty will play a major role in delivering the curricula, and together with professional development opportunities designed to identify and rectify inequitable teaching practices and mitigate language barriers, will generate a STEM learning atmosphere that is inclusive and celebrates students’ wealth of cultural knowledge. Through these efforts, enhanced diversity in STEM education will generate a workforce with a broad knowledge base, which can function to stimulate innovation fueled by collective experiences and an inclusive spirit of collaboration over competition. 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.