Mentoring, Research, Leadership, and Community to Increase Undergraduate Retention and Graduation in STEM

通过指导、研究、领导力和社区来提高 STEM 本科生的保留率和毕业率

• 批准号: 1833789
• 负责人: Edwin Li
• 金额: $ 98.2万
• 依托单位: St Joseph's University
• 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=1833789&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mentoring; Research; Leadership; Community; Increase

Mentoring, Research, Leadership, and Community to Increase Graduation in STEMWith funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, this project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Saint Joseph's University. Throughout its five years of funding, this project will provide four-year scholarships to two cohorts of eight students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, or physics. The project will provide a suite of student support and engagement activities, including long-term research opportunities, structured faculty and peer mentoring, leadership skill development, and career advising. These activities are designed to increase recruitment, retention, and successful graduation in STEM fields of study. Through academic and social nurturing, this project aims to produce cohorts of graduates who can become intellectual leaders and role models in their respective disciplines and in the community.The project will provide the following support components: aggressive recruitment and outreach to high schools with a high proportion of the targeted student population, intensive faculty mentoring, peer mentoring, undergraduate research and internship opportunities, leadership and community service programs, cohort building activities, and career development. The project will investigate variation in the effectiveness of mentoring interventions on retention and graduation rates of academically talented, low income students, with particular attention of the processes of faculty/student interaction. They will investigate what factors influence the effectiveness of these interactions. In assessing impacts of social interaction on identity, this research will generate insights that can be useful to similar programs for low-income students at similar institutions. Saint Joseph's University will develop recommendations based on their results and disseminate the recommendations to other programs seeking to increase the retention, interest, and career trajectory of STEM students from low-income backgrounds.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.

指导，研究，领导力和社区，以增加国家科学基金会在科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）计划方面的奖学金中毕业的毕业，该项目将支持高分，低收入的学生在圣约瑟夫大学表现出的财务需求。在整个五年的资金中，该项目将为八名学生提供四年奖学金，这些奖学金正在追求学士学位生物学，化学，计算机科学，数学或物理学。 该项目将提供一系列学生的支持和参与活动，包括长期研究机会，结构化教师和同伴指导，领导技能发展以及职业咨询。这些活动旨在增加在STEM研究领域的招聘，保留和成功毕业。 通过学术和社交培养，该项目旨在培养毕业生的同伙，这些毕业生可以成为各自学科和社区中的知识领导者和榜样。该项目将提供以下支持组成部分：积极的招聘和宣传对高中的积极招募和宣传，他们具有高比例的目标学生人数，高级学生的教师指导，培养社区和社区的领导和社区的社区和社区，培养社区和社区，并培养社区，培养社区和社区，培养社区，培养社区，培养社区，培养社区。该项目将调查指导干预措施对学术才华，低收入学生的保留率和毕业率的有效性差异，并特别关注教师/学生互动的过程。他们将研究哪些因素影响这些相互作用的有效性。在评估社会互动对身份的影响时，这项研究将产生洞察力，对于类似机构的低收入学生，这对于类似计划很有用。圣约瑟夫的大学将根据其结果制定建议，并将这些建议传播给寻求增加来自低收入背景的STEM学生的保留率，兴趣和职业轨迹的建议。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的值得支持的。