Collaborative Research: Access Network: Supporting Retention and Representation in Physics Through an Alliance of Campus-Based Diversity Programs

合作研究：接入网络：通过校园多样性项目联盟支持物理学的保留和表现

• 批准号: 1506190
• 负责人: Joel Corbo
• 金额: $ 4.52万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1506190&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Access; Network; Supporting

This award supports an effort to expand and enrich the COMPASS program at UC Berkeley, which is aimed at improving the education and retention of under-represented students (primarily in Physics). There are five universities with similar programs based on the COMPASS model: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Maryland College Park, Rochester Institute of Technology, Chicago State University, and Arizona State University. This project joins these institutions and UC Berkeley to form the Access Network, designed to develop best practices through shared expertise. The Access network will support the development of programs intended to improve diversity and access in physics by innovating strategies to build Compass-like programs in new contexts. The network will enhance the efforts of each individual site, build knowledge of best practices for launching new programs, and share this knowledge with the physics community. A robust evaluation of the project will identify the impact of the network on supporting diversity programs and how it contributes to the dissemination of successful strategies and program elements.The Access network will: (a) empower students and faculty - especially those from marginalized and/or underrepresented groups - as agents in the design, implementation, and iterative improvement of retention efforts, (b) facilitate communication and community among those involved in such efforts, and (c) create and maintain a repository of materials and strategies, all in order to (d) support local communities in adapting these materials and program elements to their unique contexts and populations. To achieve these goals, the project will engage in the following activities: (1) an annual assembly of the member programs, (2) inter-program communication through regular conference calls and inter-institutional travel, (3) documentation of local and inter-institutional innovations, and (4) synthesis and dissemination of member programs' educational materials.

该奖项支持在加州大学伯克利分校扩大和丰富指南针计划的努力，该计划旨在改善代表性不足的学生的教育和保留（主要是物理学）。有五所大学，基于指南针模型，具有类似课程：科罗拉多大学博尔德大学，马里兰州大学公园，罗切斯特理工学院，芝加哥州立大学和亚利桑那州立大学。 该项目与这些机构和加州大学伯克利分校一起组成了访问网络，旨在通过共同的专业知识来开发最佳实践。 访问网络将支持旨在通过创新在新环境中构建类似指南针的程序的策略来改善物理多样性和访问的计划的制定。该网络将加强每个网站的努力，建立启动新程序的最佳实践知识，并与物理社区分享这些知识。 A robust evaluation of the project will identify the impact of the network on supporting diversity programs and how it contributes to the dissemination of successful strategies and program elements.The Access network will: (a) empower students and faculty - especially those from marginalized and/or underrepresented groups - as agents in the design, implementation, and iterative improvement of retention efforts, (b) facilitate communication and community among those involved in such efforts, and (c) create and maintain材料和策略的存储库，都是为了（d）支持当地社区，以使这些材料和程序元素适应其独特的背景和人群。为了实现这些目标，该项目将从事以下活动：（1）成员计划的年度大会，（2）通过常规电话会议和机构间旅行，（3）本地和机构间创新的文件，以及（4）成员计划的教育材料的合成和传播。