Implementation Project: Increasing Degree Production through STEM Entrepreneurship and Career Development Activities

实施项目：通过 STEM 创业和职业发展活动提高学位产量

• 批准号: 1912306
• 负责人: Freddie Wills
• 金额: $ 225万
• 依托单位: HARRIS-STOWE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1912306&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Project; Increasing; Degree; Production

Implementation Projects in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provide support to design, implement, study and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This implementation project at Harris-Stowe State University (HSSU), a small, public, open-access HBCU, provides a multilayered approach to broaden opportunities for African-American students to succeed in STEM majors. The project has a strong focus on STEM careers and workforce development pathways to provide students with entrepreneurial competencies and skills that are adaptive and flexible enough to respond competitively to changing STEM workforce needs as well as graduate school preparation. The project is guided and informed by an on-going evaluation and a research study, as well as by internal and external advisory committees.The project builds on two very successful previous implementation projects that established STEM programs at the university. It will implement a variety of activities designed to instill an entrepreneurial mindset, introduce real world STEM experiences and build important non-cognitive skill sets for STEM students with the goal to increase retention, graduation and graduate school or workforce readiness. This will be accomplished by the objectives to: introduce reimagined curriculum and co-curricular activities designed to expand students' understanding of STEM career paths and introduce and promote an entrepreneurial mindset and skills; have activities to onboard cohorts of students that transfer to HSSU from community colleges; and promote cognitive and noncognitive skills critical for success in the contemporary STEM workforce or graduate school. This project promises to have wide-reaching broader impacts at the university and in the surrounding community.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.

历史悠久的黑人学院和大学的实施项目 - 本科课程（HBCU -UP）通过加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究来提供设计，实施，研究和评估全面的机构努力，以增加学生的数量及其准备质量。这项实施项目是一个小型公共，开放式HBCU的哈里斯 - 斯托州立大学（HSSU），为非裔美国学生提供成功的STEM专业的机会，为扩大机会提供了多层方法。该项目非常关注STEM职业和劳动力发展途径，为学生提供自适应和灵活性的企业家能力和技能，足以满足不断变化的STEM劳动力需求以及研究生院的准备。该项目由正在进行的评估和研究研究以及内部和外部咨询委员会的指导和告知。该项目建立在两个非常成功的以前的实施项目，这些项目在大学建立了STEM计划。它将实施各种旨在灌输企业家心态的活动，引入现实世界的STEM体验，并为STEM学生建立重要的非认知技能，以增加保留，毕业和研究生院或劳动力准备的目标。这将是通过目标来实现的：介绍重新想象的课程和课外活动，旨在扩大学生对STEM职业道路的理解，并介绍和促进企业家的心态和技能；从社区大学转移到HSSU的学生队列中有活动；并促进认知和非认知技能对于当代STEM劳动力或研究生院的成功至关重要。该项目有望在大学和周边社区中产生更广泛的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估的。