LSAMP: North Star STEM Alliance

LSAMP：北极星 STEM 联盟

• 批准号: 0703356
• 负责人: Robert Jones
• 金额: $ 245.48万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0703356&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LSAMP; North; Star; STEM; Alliance

The North Star STEM Alliance will broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities in Minnesota in STEM baccalaureate education. The 18 Alliance partners include public and private colleges and universities, community colleges, the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Minnesota High Tech Association. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities will be the lead institution. The configuration of 16 educational institutions, a high technology association with over 300 members, and a leading science and technology museum provides a resource-rich opportunity to address the engagement,capacity, and continuity (ECC) of underrepresented minorities in STEM. Using the critical transition points of middle school to high school, high school to first year of college, first year to sophomore year, transfer from 2-year to 4-year institution, and from lower division to STEM majors, the Alliance sets the following objectives: increase the level of interest in STEM careers by secondary and postsecondary non-STEM students in the targeted population; increase the number of students in the targeted populationcompleting a college preparatory/STEM preparatory high school program; increase the number of high school seniors of the targeted population enrolling in Alliance pre-college STEM and STEM baccalaureate degree programs; increase the number of students from the targeted population completing the associates degree and transferring to the 4-year Alliance schools: and increase the number of students from the targeted population persisting to the STEM baccalaureate. The North Star STEM Alliance will provide a comprehensive longitudinal set of initiatives to address these objectives at the critical transition points. The initiatives will include Alliance-wide community building conferences, bridge programs, peer-to-peer learning, undergraduate research opportunities, industry internships and professional development, contextual STEM course module development workshops, college prep STEM high school curriculum, and public communication campaigns of current STEM research. The intellectual merit of the Alliance project includes a contribution to the statewide discussion of student achievement in higher education in Minnesota, with a particular emphasis on STEM and underrepresented minorities, and on what works, what matters, and why. Due to the rigor of the entering qualifications for pursuing STEM, the Alliance outcomes will augment the discussions of the appropriateness and accuracy of predictors of student performance in institutions of higher learning, especially in regards to underrepresented minorities. In addition, because of the diversity of the educational missions of Alliance partners, the project will stimulate discussion on the scholarly literature on access and equity in highereducation and the policy implications for interventions at varying educational institutions. The inclusion of high-achieving underrepresented minorities amongst the institutions also presents an opportunity for the Alliance to weigh in on specific intellectual achievement issues such as stereotype threat and overprediction, which are based on high-achieving minority populations. The Alliance's experience with overcoming the relative isolation of underrepresented minorities on campuses outside of the Twin Cities Metro area will also contribute to understanding the critical role of student cohort building. The broader impacts of Alliance activities will be the advancement of discovery and understanding by the involvement of underrepresented minorities in the current research of STEM faculty and scientists, the development of contextual STEM modules in the curriculum that can be replicated at other educational institutions, and the public communication of the current rigorous research of underrepresented STEM faculty. The Alliance will increase the number of underrepresented minorities exposed to activities that allow them to make informed choices about STEM careers. Undergraduate research initiatives across Alliance institutions will enhance the research and education infrastructure by allowing Alliance students and faculty from different disciplines and different institutions with limited research infrastructures to access science and technology and engineering research centers on Alliance members' campuses possessing these facilities. The composition of the Alliance will promote broader dissemination through collaborative presentations of Alliance pedagogical and research activities at the distinct professional organizations and conferences of Alliance members. The Alliance will benefit society by providing the foundation for the development of the next generation of civically engaged STEM scholars.

北极星 STEM 联盟将扩大明尼苏达州代表性不足的少数族裔对 STEM 学士学位教育的参与。 18 个联盟合作伙伴包括公立和私立学院和大学、社区学院、明尼苏达科学博物馆和明尼苏达高科技协会。明尼苏达大学双城分校将是牵头机构。 16 家教育机构、拥有 300 多名会员的高科技协会以及领先的科技博物馆的配置提供了资源丰富的机会，以解决 STEM 中代表性不足的少数群体的参与、能力和连续性 (ECC) 问题。利用初中到高中、高中到大学一年级、一年级到大二、从两年制转为四年制、从低年级到 STEM 专业的关键过渡点，联盟制定了以下内容目标：提高目标人群中非 STEM 学生对 STEM 职业的兴趣；增加目标人群中完成大学预科/STEM 预科高中课程的学生数量；增加目标人群中参加联盟大学预科 STEM 和 STEM 学士学位课程的高中生人数；增加目标人群中完成副学士学位并转入四年制联盟学校的学生人数：并增加目标人群中坚持攻读 STEM 学士学位的学生人数。北极星 STEM 联盟将提供一套全面的纵向举措，以在关键过渡点实现这些目标。这些举措将包括联盟范围内的社区建设会议、桥梁计划、同伴学习、本科生研究机会、行业实习和专业发展、情境 STEM 课程模块开发研讨会、大学预科 STEM 高中课程以及公共传播活动当前的 STEM 研究。该联盟项目的智力价值包括对明尼苏达州高等教育学生成绩的全州讨论做出贡献，特别强调 STEM 和代表性不足的少数群体，以及什么有效、什么重要以及为什么有效。由于追求 STEM 入学资格的严格性，联盟的成果将加强对高等教育机构中学生表现预测因素的适当性和准确性的讨论，特别是对于代表性不足的少数族裔而言。此外，由于联盟合作伙伴的教育使命具有多样性，该项目将激发有关高等教育机会和公平的学术文献以及不同教育机构干预措施的政策影响的讨论。将高成就的少数族裔纳入机构中，也为联盟提供了一个机会来权衡特定的智力成就问题，例如基于高成就的少数群体的刻板印象威胁和过度预测。该联盟在克服双城都会区以外校园中代表性不足的少数族裔相对孤立的经验也将有助于理解学生群体建设的关键作用。联盟活动的更广泛影响将是通过让代表性不足的少数群体参与当前 STEM 教师和科学家的研究来促进发现和理解，在课程中开发可在其他教育机构复制的情境 STEM 模块，以及公开交流当前代表性不足的 STEM 教师的严格研究。该联盟将增加代表性不足的少数群体参与活动的数量，使他们能够对 STEM 职业做出明智的选择。联盟各机构的本科研究计划将加强研究和教育基础设施，让来自不同学科和研究基础设施有限的不同机构的联盟学生和教师能够使用联盟成员校园内拥有这些设施的科学技术和工程研究中心。联盟的组成将通过在不同的专业组织和联盟成员会议上合作介绍联盟的教学和研究活动，促进更广泛的传播。该联盟将为下一代公民参与的 STEM 学者的发展奠定基础，造福社会。