GP-IMPACT: The Community College Compass - Mapping a Guided Pathway into Geosciences

GP-IMPACT：社区大学指南针 - 绘制地球科学的指导路径

• 批准号: 1911580
• 负责人: Luo Cassie Xu
• 金额: $ 41.54万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 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: 2019-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1911580&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; IMPACT; Community; College; Compass

Part 1The Community College Compass project will advance efforts in the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program by forming a consortium of partners to develop and implement a guided pathway into the Geosciences that will engage students across community colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Guided pathways in community colleges are a set of strategies that offer students highly structured learning experiences in which they are provided with clear academic and professional goals, cohesive academic programs, and aligned support services to assist them along program paths. Community colleges in the CUNY system have been chosen as the focal point because while they offer strong potential for diversifying our STEM workforce, low persistence in degree completion/transfer rates to 4-year institutions remains a challenge. For the Geosciences, the diversity challenge is magnified even further, creating a critical need to not only recognize this disparity, but to engage in conversations and activities that strengthen the multiple pathways into the Geosciences, including those from community colleges. Community college students who are not retained in the Geosciences represent a loss of talent and investment. The consortium has an opportunity to demonstrate that these well-connected networks have an important role to play in bringing diversity into our research communities and promoting inclusive excellence. Part 2This three-year project will use a collective impact framework and follow the guided pathway model to community college education. The PIs intend to study how a collective group can design and implement guided pathways into the Geosciences for community college students and strengthen awareness, interest, and ultimately recruitment and matriculation into geoscience majors at four-year institutions within CUNY. PIs hypothesize that by creating a consortium around a common goal, bringing together key representatives from community colleges, and introducing components of guided pathways specifically for the Geosciences, students will begin to better understand the field, but more importantly, how they can navigate their way through the multiple pathways into it. Rather than create a one-size-fits-all guided pathway in the Geosciences across CUNY's community colleges, the project aims to design elements (i.e. course sequences and maps, learning outcomes, and transfer procedures) of guided pathways, which can be integrated over time into existing programs and departments. The work of the consortium will provide evidence for how a set of research-based design principles and strategies to support students, particularly for the Geosciences, can yield stronger outcomes for recruiting students into the field and ultimately the workforce.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.

第1部分，社区大学指南针项目将通过组建一个合作伙伴的财团来开发和实施指导途径，以促进纽约市社区学院的学生（ CUNY）系统。社区大学的指导途径是一系列策略，可为学生提供高度结构化的学习经验，其中为他们提供了明确的学术和专业目标，具有凝聚力的学术课程以及一致的支持服务，以帮助他们沿着计划途径。 CUNY系统中的社区学院被选为焦点，因为尽管它们为我们的STEM劳动力多样化提供了强大的潜力，但学位完成/转让率较低，到4年的机构仍然是一个挑战。对于地球科学而言，多样性挑战进一步扩大，不仅会认识到这种差异，还可以从事对话和活动，从而加强到包括社区大学的对话和活动。没有保留在地球科学的社区大学生代表了人才和投资的丧失。该财团有机会证明这些良好的连接网络在将多样性带入我们的研究社区并促进包容性卓越方面起着重要作用。第2部分这个三年项目将使用集体影响框架，并遵循指导途径模型进行社区大学教育。 PIS打算研究一个集体小组如何在社区大学生中设计和实施指导的途径，并在CUNY内的四年制机构中加强意识，兴趣，并最终招募和入学到地球科学专业。 PIS假设，通过围绕一个共同目标建立一个财团，将社区大学的主要代表汇总在一起，并为地球科学专门为指导道路的组成部分介绍，学生将开始更好地理解该领域，但更重要的是，他们如何能够导航自己的路通过多个途径进入它。该项目不是在CUNY社区大学的地球科学中创建一定大小的指导途径，而是旨在设计带有指导途径的元素（即课程序列和地图，学习成果和转移程序），可以整合在上面进入现有计划和部门的时间。财团的工作将提供证据证明如何支持学生，特别是对地球科学的学生的一系列基于研究的设计原则和策略，可以为将学生招募到该领域并最终招募劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估值得支持的。