Mentored Pathways from Community College to Graduate School and Chemistry Careers

从社区学院到研究生院和化学职业的指导途径

• 批准号: 1929758
• 负责人: Regis Komperda
• 金额: $ 176.81万
• 依托单位: San Diego State University Foundation
• 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: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1929758&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mentored; Pathways; Community; College; Graduate

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. Over five years, this project will fund 120 scholarships to four groups of 30 students who are pursuing associate degrees at Southwestern College, and 45 scholarships for 30 transfer students and 15 graduate students who are pursuing baccalaureate and graduate degrees in chemistry and biochemistry at San Diego State University. This project will create an integrated mentoring and research pathway that bridges the chemistry and biochemistry programs at Southwestern College and San Diego State University. Both Southwestern College and San Diego State University are Hispanic-Serving Institutions. As a result, the project has the potential to improve diversity in STEM graduate programs and careers by identifying and removing roadblocks to student transfer and post-transfer success. Along with financial support, scholars will have opportunities to participate in sustained undergraduate research experiences throughout their academic careers. Additional supports include: mentoring by faculty, graduate students, and peers; opportunities for students to attend and present their research at national and regional professional conferences; and career/graduate school application workshops. Mentors will participate in training on best practices in mentoring to ensure high-quality research experiences for all students. These proposed activities are designed to provide a mentored pathway from community college into graduate school and STEM careers. The objectives of this project are to: improve student success, retention, and completion of chemistry courses and degrees at Southwestern College and at San Diego State University; facilitate transfer of academically talented, low-income students to San Diego State University as Chemistry/Biochemistry majors; and increase graduate school acceptance rates and/or STEM career placement rates after graduation. Knowledge generation activities will focus on three areas. First, the project will examine how scholarships and participation in program activities affect traditional metrics of student success such as GPA, transfer rates, persistence, loans, time to degree, career plans, and employment after degree. Second, using the lens of social cognitive career theory and measurements of scientific self-efficacy, confidence, scientific identity, and sense of belonging, it will examine how students' affective domain is influenced by program activities. Finally, the mentoring activities themselves will be evaluated to understand the effects of structured mentoring experiences on both mentors and mentees. Dissemination of results through peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, and outreach will enable other community college-university partnerships to apply lessons learned from this program to enhance student success in other locations. It is expected that the research projects in which students participate will also produce new scientific knowledge in chemistry, including organic chemistry, chemical biology, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, catalysis, physical chemistry, and analytical chemistry. This project is funded by NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income 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.

该项目将通过支持受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求，以支持具有经济需求的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业。 在五年的时间里，该项目将资助120个奖学金，其中四个在西南学院攻读副学士学位的30名学生中，为30名转学学生和15名奖学金和15名奖学金，他们正在攻读学士学位和攻读学士学位和研究生学士学位，并在圣地亚哥州立大学获得化学和生物化学学位。 该项目将创建一个综合的指导和研究途径，该途径桥接西南学院和圣地亚哥州立大学的化学和生物化学计划。西南学院和圣地亚哥州立大学都是西班牙裔服务机构。 结果，该项目有可能通过识别和删除障碍，以提高STEM研究生课程和职业的多样性，从而获得学生转学和转移后的成功。除了财政支持外，学者们还将有机会参加整个学术职业的持续的本科研究经验。其他支持包括：教师，研究生和同龄人的指导；学生在国家和地区专业会议上参加和介绍他们的研究的机会；以及职业/研究生院申请研讨会。导师将参加指导的最佳实践培训，以确保为所有学生提供高质量的研究经验。这些拟议的活动旨在提供从社区大学进入研究生院和STEM职业的指导途径。该项目的目标是：提高学生的成功，保留和完成化学课程和学位，并在圣地亚哥州立大学（San Diego State University）；促进将学术才华的低收入学生转移到圣地亚哥州立大学，成为化学/生物化学专业；并提高毕业后研究生院的接受率和/或STEM职业生涯。知识生成活动将集中在三个领域。首先，该项目将研究奖学金和参与计划活动如何影响学生成功的传统指标，例如GPA，转让率，持久性，贷款，学位时间，职业计划和学位后的就业。其次，使用社会认知职业理论的镜头以及对科学自我效能，自信，科学认同和归属感的测量，它将研究学生的情感领域如何受到计划活动的影响。最后，将评估指导活动本身，以了解结构化指导经验对导师和受训者的影响。通过同行评审的出版物，会议演讲和宣传来传播结果，这将使其他社区大学 - 大学合作伙伴关系能够从该计划中汲取教训，以增强学生在其他地方的成功。预计学生参与的研究项目还将在化学方面产生新的科学知识，包括有机化学，化学生物学，药物化学，生物化学，催化，物理化学和分析化学。 该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金资助，该计划旨在增加具有证明经济需求的低收入学术才华的学生的数量，他们在STEM领域获得学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工人的教育，并为低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业以及学术/职业途径提供知识。这项奖项反映了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审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。