Cardinal STEM Scholars Program: Guided Pathways to Increase STEM Degree Completion

Cardinal STEM 学者计划：提高 STEM 学位完成率的指导途径

• 批准号: 1833851
• 负责人: Kristen Hoffbuhr
• 金额: $ 64.81万
• 依托单位: Skagit Valley 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: 2019-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833851&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cardinal; STEM; Scholars; Program; Guided

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, this project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Skagit Valley College. The project will provide 34 low income, academically talented students with scholarships, high-quality mentoring, research opportunities, and extensive advising. The major goals are to increase the number of low income students enrolling in and completing STEM degrees at Skagit Valley College, and to increase the transfer of these graduates to four-year STEM programs. The project will build on the college's guided pathways approach, which supports student retention and graduation by providing clearly articulated and intentionally sequenced course maps for STEM-specific transfer degrees. Following identification of courses and progress milestones predictive of STEM retention and completion, the maps will be updated to include specifically placed supports and interventions to enhance student success. The project responds to the national need to broaden participation of low income and underrepresented students in STEM and expects to develop a generalizable model for increasing student access and completion in STEM programs.During five years of funding, the project seeks to: (1) Increase the access and retention of low-income, academically talented students into STEM programs and degrees; (2) Identify mechanisms for increased retention and completion in STEM pathways through identification of key gateway and critical courses, as well as milestones (both academic and non-academic) in STEM pathways; (3) Increase the percentage of STEM degree completion, with a focus on ameliorating inequities in completion rates; (4) Increase the rate of successful transfer of STEM students to four-year colleges; and (5) Develop an equity-focused model for implementing STEM guided pathways that can be adapted and implemented at other community colleges. During its first year, the project will identify courses and progress milestones that correlate with student retention and completion in STEM pathways. The results of this research will be used to place evidence-based interventions within each STEM pathway.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.

通过NSF奖学金的科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）计划的资助，该项目将支持Skagit Valley College在Skagit Valley College中表现出的经济需求的高分，低收入学生。 该项目将为34名低收入，学术才华的学生提供奖学金，高质量的指导，研究机会和广泛的建议。 主要目标是增加在斯卡吉特谷学院入学和完成STEM学位的低收入学生的数量，并增加这些毕业生向四年STEM计划的转移。 该项目将基于学院的指导途径方法，该方法通过为STEM特定的转移学位提供明确阐明和有意测序的课程图来支持学生的保留和毕业。 在确定了课程和进度的里程碑之后，预测了STEM保留和完成，将更新这些地图，以包括专门放置的支持和干预措施，以增强学生的成功。该项目应对全国性的需求，以扩大低收入和代表性不足的学生参与STEM的参与，并希望开发出可推广的模型，以增加学生在STEM计划中的访问和完成。在五年的资金中，该项目寻求：（1）将低收入和保留的低收入和保留率提高了低收入的学生，学术上才华横溢的学生进入STEM和DEMERES； （2）通过鉴定关键门户和关键课程以及在STEM途径中的里程碑（包括学术和非学术），确定了增加保留率和在STEM途径中的保留和完成的机制； （3）增加茎学位完成的百分比，重点是改善完成率的不平等； （4）提高STEM学生成功转移到四年制大学的速度； （5）开发一种以股权为中心的模型，用于实施可以在其他社区大学进行调整和实施的STEM指导途径。在第一年，该项目将确定与学生保留和STEM途径的完成相关的课程和进步里程碑。这项研究的结果将用于在每个STEM途径中放置基于证据的干预措施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。