Supporting Graduation and Transfer of Community College Students in STEM Through Opportunities in Research

通过研究机会支持 STEM 社区学院学生的毕业和转学

• 批准号: 1833818
• 负责人: Rita Luther
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: Valencia Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833818&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Graduation; Transfer; Community; College

With 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 Valencia College, a two-year college and Hispanic-Serving Institution. Lack of knowledge and skills combined with limited access to educational resources are significant barriers to the success of many low-income, high-achieving students in STEM academic and career pathways. This S-STEM project aims to strengthen and diversify collegiate STEM degree completion and, ultimately, the STEM workforce by creating a STEM support program at Valencia College. This project will provide low-income, academically talented students with comprehensive wrap-around support early in their college experience, with emphasis on STEM research, mentoring, coursework, and advising to support STEM degree completion. The project aims to generate a STEM research community that nurtures student development and encourages continuation in STEM education and careers. Over the five years of funding, the project will provide 60 one-year scholarships to 30 students pursuing associate degrees in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, or physics transfer pathways. Students who successfully transfer to a four-year STEM baccalaureate program will receive a one-time scholarship to support their studies. Since Valencia College has unique, non-traditional student demographics, including a considerable population of low-income students, the project will address existing disparities of low-income student completion in STEM degrees. The project will accomplish this goal by determining optimal conditions for the post-secondary research experiences, the support network, and scholarship assistance to maximize positive impact on student persistence in STEM to successful transfer. The goals of the project are to: 1) increase the enrollment and diversity of low-income, academically talented students in STEM degree pathways; 2) adapt evidence-based practices and leverage existing resources to create a sustainable student support model; 3) increase student success rates through integrated support services promoting full-time enrollment and degree attainment; and 4) assist student transfer to four-year degree programs and support them to gain access to upper division undergraduate research. The project will advance knowledge through a research study focusing on the impact of early experiences in undergraduate research at a two-year institution and on early interventions including mentoring practices that incorporate growth mindset interventions. The project will disseminate these results to inform the design of curricular methods and educational practices that other institutions of higher education can adapt to support low-income, academically talented STEM degree-seeking 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.

借助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，该项目将支持高分，低收入学生在Valencia College，两年学院和西班牙裔服务机构中表现出财务需求。 缺乏知识和技能，加上有限的教育资源，这是许多低收入，高成就的学生在STEM学术和职业途径方面的成功的重大障碍。这个S-STEM项目旨在加强和多样化大学STEM学位的完成，并最终通过在Valencia College创建STEM支持计划来加强STEM劳动力。该项目将为低收入，学术才华的学生提供大学经验的早期全面的环绕式支持，重点是STEM研究，指导，课程，并提供支持STEM学位的完成。该项目旨在产生一个STEM研究社区，以培养学生的发展并鼓励STEM教育和职业的延续。在五年的资金中，该项目将为30名攻读生物学，化学，计算机科学，工程或物理转移途径的副学士学位的学生提供60年的一年奖学金。 成功转移到四年STEM学士学位计划的学生将获得一次性奖学金来支持他们的学习。 由于瓦伦西亚学院（Valencia College）拥有独特的非传统学生人口统计学，包括大量的低收入学生，因此该项目将解决茎学位的低收入学生完成的现有差异。 该项目将通过确定专上研究经验，支持网络和奖学金援助的最佳条件来实现这一目标，以最大程度地影响STEM中学生的持久性对成功转移的积极影响。 该项目的目标是：1）增加茎学位途径的低收入，学术才华的学生的入学率和多样性； 2）调整基于证据的实践并利用现有资源来创建可持续的学生支持模型； 3）通过促进全日制入学和学位成就的综合支持服务提高学生的成功率； 4）协助学生转学到四年制学位课程，并支持他们进入上层本科研究。该项目将通过一项研究促进知识，该研究重点介绍了两年的机构在本科研究中的早期经历的影响以及早期干预措施，包括纳入增长心态干预措施的指导实践。该项目将传播这些结果，以告知课程方法和教育实践的设计，而其他高等教育机构可以适应支持低收入，学术上有才华的STEM学位学生。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估该基金会的智力功能和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得的。