Collaborative Research: Institutional Collaboration to Recruit, Retain and Graduate Low-Income Students in Biology

合作研究：机构合作招募、留住和毕业低收入生物学学生

• 批准号: 1742366
• 负责人: Joseph Flaherty
• 金额: $ 215.7万
• 依托单位: Coker College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1742366&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Institutional; Collaboration; Recruit

Coker College, College of Saint Elizabeth, Ferrum College, Keuka College, Mercy College, and Thomas University will partner with the Yes We Must Coalition to implement a carefully planned and assessed series of activities with the intention of increasing the persistence of a large and diverse cohort of low-income students majoring in Biology across these six institutions. This NSF Scholarship in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) Track 3 project will contribute new information to the knowledge base regarding factors that affect retention and STEM degree attainment of low-income students. By creating cross-institutional partnerships between Biology students, faculty, project coordinators and external scientists, it will create a stronger network of support and scientific identity for the STEM scholars. This collaborative project will help increase the recruitment, persistence and graduation rate of STEM scholars and increase matriculation into a STEM-related graduate program or field of employment. This S-STEM project builds on activities and best practices developed by each of the six collaborating institutions while implementing and assessing new activities including: (1) CATALYST, a "Jumpstart"-inspired program with a particular focus on helping students develop a sense of community and belonging; (2) an integrated first-year experience including a STEM-based first-year seminar, advising, and peer-assisted study sessions for gateway science classes; (3) intrusive advising and a faculty/peer mentors program where each student will be matched with a dedicated STEM faculty member and peer STEM mentor; (4) continuing hands-on research or project-based learning under faculty mentorship; (5) seminar series by scientists during which students will meet working professionals in STEM fields; (6) graduate school and career preparation through an intensive series of workshops and cohort activities to educate students about STEM career and graduate school opportunities; and (7) an annual institute that will bring the cohort of students and teams from the six collaborating institutions together organized by the Yes We Must Coalition. This last component will feature research conducted by the STEM Scholars, in addition to workshops designed to increase student success. The impact of all these activities on enrollment, retention, graduation, and post-graduate placement rates at the participating institutions will be examined. Formative and summative project evaluation and assessment will employ mixed methods including collection of student data, surveys, interviews, and focus groups. By addressing the project's central research question, what factors contribute to success of low-income students in Biology, new information will be added to the research literature specific to low-income students. The study will control for mediating effects of race, ethnicity and first-generation status by comparing the cohort of STEM scholars to current non-Pell eligible STEM students, in addition to historical data across the institutions participating in the collaborative research project. An additional feature of this project is that it will provide a scalable model of a geographically far-flung, multi-institutional S-STEM collaborative project.

科克学院，圣伊丽莎白学院，弗鲁姆学院，库卡学院，梅西学院和托马斯大学将与“是的”合作，我们必须联盟，以实施一系列精心计划和评估的一系列活动，以增加大量和多样化的同类群体的持久性，以使这六个机构在生物学领域兼顾这六个机构。这项NSF科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）轨道3项目将为知识库提供有关影响保留率和STEM学位学位的因素的新信息的新信息。通过在生物学学生，教职员工，项目协调员和外部科学家之间建立跨机构的伙伴关系，它将为STEM学者建立更强大的支持和科学身份网络。这个协作项目将有助于提高STEM学者的招聘，持久性和毕业率，并将入学介绍到与STEM相关的研究生计划或就业领域中。这个S-STEM项目建立在实施和评估新活动的同时，由六个合作机构中的每个机构中的每个项目开发的活动和最佳实践，包括：（1）Catalyst，一个“ JumpStart”启发的计划，特别着眼于帮助学生发展社区和归属感； （2）一年级的一年级经验，包括基于STEM的第一年研讨会，咨询和与Gateway Science课程的同行协助学习课程； （3）侵入性咨询和教师/同伴导师计划，其中每个学生都将与专门的STEM教师和同伴STEM导师相匹配； （4）在教师指导下继续进行动手研究或基于项目的学习； （5）科学家的研讨会系列，在此期间，学生将与STEM领域的工作专业人员会面； （6）通过一系列密集的研讨会和队列活动的研究生院和职业准备，以教育学生有关STEM职业和研究生院机会的教育； （7）一家年度研究所将将来自六个合作机构的学生和团队组成，由YES组织组织。除了旨在提高学生成功的研讨会外，最后一个组成部分还将由STEM学者进行的研究。将检查所有这些活动对参与机构的入学，保留，毕业和研究生的影响的影响。形成性和总结性项目评估和评估将采用混合方法，包括收集学生数据，调查，访谈和焦点小组。通过解决该项目的中心研究问题，哪些因素导致了低收入学生在生物学领域的成功，将添加到针对低收入学生的研究文献中的新信息。这项研究将通过将STEM学者的队列与当前的非符合条件的STEM学生进行比较，除了参与协作研究项目的机构外，还将控制种族，种族和第一代状况的中介作用。该项目的另一个功能是，它将提供一个可扩展的地理位置上遥远的多机构S-STEM协作项目的模型。