NSF INCLUDES: Building upon CAHSI's Success to Establish a Networked Community for Broadening Participation of Hispanics in Graduate Studies

NSF 包括：在 CAHSI 成功的基础上建立一个网络社区，以扩大西班牙裔研究生的参与

基本信息

批准号：
1649271
负责人：
Ann Gates
金额：
$ 29.99万
依托单位：
University of Texas at El Paso
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-10-01 至 2019-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649271&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
NSF INCLUDES Building upon CAHSI

项目摘要

A partnership of institutions and organizations from public and private sectors, all with an established record in advancing Hispanics in higher education, will form a networked community across regions of the United States with significant Hispanic populations to collectively adapt and adopt proven practices and apply them throughout the higher education system of two-year colleges and baccalaureate-, master's-, and doctorate-granting universities. The partnership builds on the successful NSF-funded Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) that has emerged as a significant pipeline of new recruits into computing graduate studies, industry, and the professoriate throughout the nation. Even through the Hispanic population has reached 17% nationally, a mere 4% STEM Master's and 3% STEM doctorate degrees are awarded nationwide to Hispanics in 2012-2013. The desperate need to reach parity is clear. The shared purpose and bold vision of the effort is to achieve parity in the number of Hispanics who complete computation-based graduate studies. The focus will be on targeting the pool of talented students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) who, for various reasons, do not choose to continue on STEM educational and career pathways. The efforts will focus on transitioning Hispanic students from associate degree programs to baccalaureate programs, and from baccalaureate programs (regardless of where they began their studies) to completion of graduate degrees.The project will establish a common agenda that guides the vision and strategy for collective impact, conduct data collection to longitudinally track student movement across campuses, and launch a multi-site pilot to test feasibility of the full-scale plan and process for change. While prior research has identified strategies for increasing graduate program completion rates for underrepresented minorities, little attention has been paid to the role of HSIs in reducing attrition. Attention to HSIs is a critical element in developing successful pathways to STEM careers. The networked community will involve social scientists across the different regions in research on Hispanic graduate program completion, to complement existing research on undergraduate completion. Developing a comprehensive, scalable model for cross-institutional advancement of students, in particular the combination of a bilingual and bicultural student body with unique needs, is critical to grow the STEM pipeline. Through a pilot, the project will engage two-year colleges and universities to begin the initial investigation on the impact of building strong student identity, student belonging, advocacy, and preparation on accelerating the number of students entering, persisting in the major, and considering, entering, and ultimately completing graduate studies in computational areas.

来自公共和私营部门的机构和组织在促进西班牙裔高等教育方面都有着良好的记录，它们将建立一个跨美国地区拥有大量西班牙裔人口的网络社区，共同适应和采用行之有效的做法，并将其应用到整个美国两年制学院和授予学士、硕士和博士学位的大学的高等教育体系。此次合作建立在美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 资助的西班牙服务机构计算联盟 (CAHSI) 的基础上，该联盟已成为全国计算机研究生、工业界和教授领域的重要新人才输送渠道。尽管拉美裔人口已达到全国的 17%，但 2012-2013 年，全国拉美裔仅获得了 4% 的 STEM 硕士学位和 3% 的 STEM 博士学位。实现平等的迫切需要是显而易见的。这项努力的共同目标和大胆愿景是实现完成基于计算的研究生学习的西班牙裔人数的平等。重点将针对西班牙裔服务机构 (HSI) 的优秀学生群体，这些学生由于各种原因不选择继续 STEM 教育和职业道路。这些努力将集中于将西班牙裔学生从副学士学位课程过渡到学士学位课程，以及从学士学位课程（无论他们在哪里开始学习）过渡到完成研究生学位。该项目将建立一个共同议程，指导集体的愿景和战略。影响，进行数据收集以纵向跟踪学生在校园内的流动，并启动多地点试点来测试全面计划和变革过程的可行性。虽然之前的研究已经确定了提高少数族裔研究生课程完成率的策略，但很少有人关注 HSI 在减少人员流失方面的作用。对 HSI 的关注是开辟 STEM 职业成功之路的关键因素。该网络社区将让不同地区的社会科学家参与西班牙裔研究生课程完成的研究，以补充现有的本科完成研究。开发一个全面的、可扩展的模型来促进学生的跨机构进步，特别是结合具有独特需求的双语和双文化学生群体，对于发展 STEM 渠道至关重要。通过试点，该项目将邀请两年制学院和大学开始初步调查，了解建立牢固的学生身份、学生归属感、宣传和准备对加速学生数量进入、坚持专业的影响，并考虑，进入并最终完成计算领域的研究生学习。