Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) Proposal to Implement & Evaluate Models for Business Engagement to Increase Undergraduate STEM Student Persistence

商业高等教育论坛 (BHEF) 实施提案

• 批准号: 1331063
• 负责人: Brian Fitzgerald
• 金额: $ 448.78万
• 依托单位: Business-Higher Education Forum
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1331063&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Business; Higher; Education; Forum; BHEF

Since the business sector has been a largely underutilized resource in improving undergraduate STEM education and there is little research on industry-higher education partnerships, the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) seeks to address these gaps. Through this project BHEF is (1) integrating implementation and research efforts on persistence and degree attainment in STEM and (2) supporting and examining a set of business-higher education partnerships with particular attention to the transfer of students from 2-year institutions to 4-year institutions in programs of study that impact areas of national interest. The project focuses on the implementation and examination of evidence-based interventions (e.g., curricular strategies/activities and student support services) designed to support student persistence and degree attainment.Towards these ends BHEF has formed the Undergraduate STEM Interventions with Industry (US2I) consortium to develop, implement, and examine evidence-based models of strategic, effective, and sustainable engagement of industries in curricular strategies/activities and student support services designed to increase STEM student persistence and degree completion. The key questions addressed in this R&D project are: (1) In what ways are the different models of business-higher education partnerships effective in addressing the problems of persistence and graduation in STEM? (2) What are the essential elements of business-higher education partnerships that ensure sustainability and effectiveness? (3) How useful is Designed-Based Implementation Research (DBIR) as a method for research and development of interventions supported by industry-higher education partnerships? (4) What are the strengths and limitations of migration analysis techniques in tracking and assessing the transfer of students from 2-year institutions to 4-year programs and degree attainment in STEM? A quantitative and qualitative mixed methods rsearch design will collect data on student academic progress, higher education institutional and systems processes, individual corporate engagement, efficacy of industry consortia, and involvement of corporate and academic leadership. The study integrates survey research, focus groups, interviews, and student tracking methodologies to examine five business-higher education pilot efforts. Analyses will be conducted using a suite of strategies that will include multiple regression, student migration analysis, modeling, and within-case and cross-case analyses.BHEF is a national organization of Fortune 500 CEOs and university presidents. Building on past and current activities, the five BHEF partnerships and domains of interests are:(1) City University of New York & IBM: Large-scale data analytics and urban sustainability; (2) Miami-Dade College & New Era Energy: Information technology and cybersecurity;(3) University of Massachusetts & the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership: Life science, engineering, and computer science;(4) University of Wisconsin & the Milwaukee Water Council: Water Science; and(5) Washington University in St. Louis & Boeing: Engineering.

由于商业部门在改善本科STEM教育方面的资源很大，而且对行业最高教育伙伴关系的研究很少，因此商业最高教育论坛（BHEF）旨在解决这些差距。通过该项目，BHEF是（1）整合STEM中持久性和学位成就的实施和研究工作，以及（2）支持和研究一组企业最高教育伙伴关系，特别关注学生从2年的机构转移到影响国家利益领域的研究计划中的4年机构。 该项目着重于旨在支持学生的持久性和学位的实施和检查基于证据的干预措施（例如课程策略/活动和学生支持服务）。持久性和学位完成。该研发项目中解决的关键问题是：（1）有效地解决STEM持久性和毕业的问题，以哪些方式有效地，以什么方式？ （2）确保可持续性和有效性的商业最高教育伙伴关系的基本要素是什么？ （3）基于设计的实施研究（DBIR）是一种研究和开发行业最高教育合作伙伴关系的干预措施的方法？ （4）在跟踪和评估学生从2年机构转移到4年课程和STEM学位成就方面的移民分析技术的优势和局限性是什么？定量和定性的混合方法RSEarch设计将收集有关学生学术进步，高等教育机构和系统流程，个人参与，行业财团的疗效以及公司和学术领导的数据的数据。 该研究集成了调查研究，焦点小组，访谈和学生跟踪方法，以检查五个商业最高的教育试点工作。 分析将使用一套策略进行，其中包括多重回归，学生迁移分析，建模以及案例内和跨案例分析。BHEF是《财富》 500强首席执行官和大学校长的国家组织。在过去和当前活动的基础上，五个BHEF合作伙伴关系和兴趣领域是：（1）纽约市和IBM大学：大规模数据分析和城市可持续性； （2）迈阿密戴德学院和新时代能源：信息技术和网络安全；（3）马萨诸塞大学和马萨诸塞大学竞争伙伴关系：生命科学，工程学和计算机科学；（4）威斯康星大学和密尔沃基大学和密尔沃基水委员会：水科学：水科学； （5）圣路易斯与波音的华盛顿大学：工程。