Capacity-Building Workshops for Competitive S-STEM Proposals from Two-Year Colleges in the Western U.S.

美国西部两年制大学竞争性 S-STEM 提案能力建设研讨会

• 批准号: 1826514
• 负责人: Maura Borrego
• 金额: $ 45.7万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 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 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1826514&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Capacity; Building; Workshops; Competitive; STEM

The NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program supports the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. It accomplishes this goal by funding two-year and four-year institutions of higher education, that use these funds to give scholarships and academic support to undergraduate STEM students pursuing associate-, bachelor-, or master-level STEM degrees. Increasing the ability of two-year colleges to obtain S-STEM funding would increase participation of students served by these colleges. To this end, this project will provide two annual capacity-building workshops focused on preparing competitive proposals for submission to the S-STEM program for 24 teams from two-year colleges. The specific focus will be on developing proposals for submission to the Institutional Capacity Building track of the S-STEM program. Each participating two-year college will send a two-person team composed of the STEM faculty member who will serve as the principal investigator of the proposal and a STEM administrator or education researcher. It is expected that working in these teams can improve proposal quality, increase the number of S-STEM grants to two year colleges, and most importantly, add new students to pathways toward becoming STEM professionals.The workshops will be held in the western United States. Recruitment will be conducted through venues such as associations for two-year colleges (e.g., American Association of Community Colleges), and discipline-specific associations. The two-and-a-half day workshops will feature experts in different areas to advise community college personnel, and provide time for the team to work together on the proposal. Prior to the workshop, the participants will interview stakeholders to better understand their institution's needs and resources, thus building the framework for their proposal's activities and budget. Research and evaluation of the workshop's effectiveness will measure participants' experiences at the workshop and their subsequent work to develop their proposal. This information will provide insight into the constraints and affordances that workshop participants face in applying what they learned at the workshop to build capacity for research at two-year institutions.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、工程和数学奖学金 (S-STEM) 计划支持有经济需求的高成就、低收入学生的保留和毕业。 它通过资助两年制和四年制高等教育机构来实现这一目标，这些机构利用这些资金为攻读副、学士或硕士学位的 STEM 本科生提供奖学金和学术支持。 提高两年制学院获得 S-STEM 资助的能力将增加这些学院所服务的学生的参与度。为此，该项目将举办两次年度能力建设研讨会，重点是为来自两年制学院的 24 个团队准备提交给 S-STEM 项目的竞争性提案。具体重点是制定提交给 S-STEM 计划机构能力建设轨道的提案。每个参与的两年制学院将派出一个两人团队，由担任该提案主要研究者的 STEM 教员和一名 STEM 管理员或教育研究员组成。 预计在这些团队中工作可以提高提案质量，增加两年制大学的 S-STEM 补助金数量，最重要的是，让新生踏上成为 STEM 专业人员的道路。研讨会将在美国西部举行。招聘将通过两年制大学协会（例如美国社区学院协会）和特定学科协会等场所进行。为期两天半的研讨会将邀请不同领域的专家为社区大学人员提供建议，并为团队提供时间共同研究提案。在研讨会之前，参与者将采访利益相关者，以更好地了解其机构的需求和资源，从而为其提案的活动和预算建立框架。 对研讨会有效性的研究和评估将衡量参与者在研讨会上的经验以及他们随后制定提案的工作。 这些信息将深入了解研讨会参与者在应用他们在研讨会上学到的知识来建设两年制机构的研究能力时所面临的限制和承受能力。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

Capacity Building Workshop for Two-Year Colleges Seeking U.S. National Science Foundation Funding

寻求美国国家科学基金会资助的两年制学院能力建设研讨会

• DOI: 10.1080/10668926.2023.2236039
• 发表时间: 2023-07
• 期刊: Community College Journal of Research and Practice
• 影响因子: 1
• 作者: Mastronardi, Marialice;Brown, David R.;Borrego, Maura;Krupczak, John
• 通讯作者: Krupczak, John

Board 333A: Lessons Learned from a Capacity-Building Workshop for Two-Year Colleges Seeking U.S. National Science Foundation Funding

Board 333A：从寻求美国国家科学基金会资助的两年制学院能力建设研讨会中汲取的经验教训

• 发表时间: 2023-01
• 期刊: American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference
• 作者: Mastronardi, M.;Brown, D.R.;Krupczak, J.;and Borrego, M.
• 通讯作者: and Borrego, M.