Exploring the Impact of Cultural Wealth and Scholarships on Community College Student Success in STEM

探索文化财富和奖学金对社区学院学生 STEM 成功的影响

• 批准号: 1833435
• 负责人: Phillip Vargas
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: City Colleges of Chicago Harold Washington 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: 2018-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833435&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Exploring; Impact; Cultural; Wealth; Scholarships

The NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program will support the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Harold Washington College (HWC) in Chicago, Illinois. This project aims to award 94 scholarships over five years to 47 unique STEM students as they progress through academic requirements for an associate degree and transfer to a four-year institution for a baccalaureate degree in a STEM major. Because urban community colleges are the entry point to higher education for many low income and demographic groups that are underrepresented in STEM careers, by increasing the success and transfer rates of these students and identifying practices that most impact and promote student persistence, this project can provide a model for other community colleges. The project will take a cultural wealth approach, which focuses on how cultural capital can be nurtured to promote student success. This approach results in a shift in focus from a deficit model, which assumes students are working from a position of disadvantage, to a position that students possess unacknowledged and unrecognized cultural knowledge that enhances their learning. The project will engage students in student-driven creative exploration and project-based learning, scaffolded by formal mentoring and skills-focused instruction. This project will involve cohort building, networking, and faculty development activities. Cohort activities include a common course sequence. Networking activities include professional development, social, and community engagement events for all students and will be co-organized by the S-STEM Scholars and existing the HWC STEM Club. Faculty development will focus on the creation of a professional learning community. An extensive research study is planned to help determine how to redesign classroom activities, courses, and curricula to maximize the success of students, and the cultural wealth focus will provide insights into how community college systems can change to meet the expectations and needs of their students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

NSF科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）计划的NSF奖学金将支持在伊利诺伊州芝加哥的Harold Washington College（HWC）表现出财务需求的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业。该项目的目标是在五年内授予94个奖学金，向47位独特的STEM学生授予学术要求，并将其转移到STEM专业的学士学位四年制学院。由于城市社区学院是许多低收入和人口群体的高等教育的入口，这些群体在STEM职业中的代表性不足，通过提高这些学生的成功和转移率，并确定最大程度地影响和促进学生坚持的实践，因此该项目可以为其他社区大学提供模型。该项目将采用一种文化财富方法，该方法的重点是如何培养文化资本以促进学生的成功。这种方法导致重点从赤字模型转变，该模型假设学生正在从劣势工作，而学生拥有未被认可和未经认可的文化知识来增强学习的位置。该项目将吸引学生进行以学生为导向的创意探索和基于项目的学习，并通过正式的指导和以技能为中心的教学进行脚手架。该项目将涉及队列建设，网络和教师发展活动。队列活动包括常见的课程序列。网络活动包括针对所有学生的专业发展，社交和社区参与活动，并将由S-STEM学者和现有HWC STEM俱乐部共同组织。教师发展将集中于创建专业学习社区。计划进行一项广泛的研究，以帮助确定如何重新设计课堂活动，课程和课程，以最大程度地提高学生的成功，而文化财富的重点将为社区大学系统如何改变以满足其学生的期望和需求提供见解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估基础的智力效果来反映出与基础构成的概述和广泛的crtifial crtial and crowial的支持。