Fostering Student Success and Diversity in STEM by Combining Scholarship Support with Mentoring and Research Engagement

通过将奖学金支持与指导和研究参与相结合，促进学生在 STEM 领域的成功和多样性

• 批准号: 1930530
• 负责人: E. Gloria Regisford
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Prairie View A & M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930530&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fostering; Student; Success; Diversity; STEM; Fostering; Student; Success; Diversity; STEM

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 at Prairie View A&M University. Prairie View A&M University is an historically black college/university with a reputation of serving the economically disadvantaged and underserved population of Texas. Over its five-year duration, this project will fund four-year scholarships to twenty students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, or Mathematics. This project aims to increase student enrollment, retention, and persistence and improve 4-year graduation rates by linking these scholarships with effective supporting activities, such as cohort-building, undergraduate research experiences, mentoring, graduate school preparation, and participation in discipline-specific conferences. In so doing, the institution is taking a holistic approach to preparing its students for entrance into the workforce as a biologist, chemist, physicist or mathematician. As Prairie View A&M University has a high population of underrepresented students, this project will broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields. Additionally, this project will advance understanding of effective evidence-based strategies and activities that promote student participation and success in STEM. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need at Prairie View A&M University. Three objectives guide the project. First, to increase enrollment in the STEM disciplines of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. Second, to improve 3-year retention/persistence figures and 4-year graduation rates by engaging students in a multidimensional mentorship program. Third, to create a cross-discipline intellectual learning community that promotes advancement of project scholars to a STEM graduate program or into the STEM workforce. This project will also examine the role(s) of cohort-building, mentoring, and research engagement in fostering STEM student retention/persistence and high graduation rates, through the use of "intersectionality" as a theoretical approach. In particular, this project will provide an empirically informed perspective on how to meet the needs of STEM students who manifest more than a single primary identity status at a time; a status that embraces multiple equally weighted markers, such as socio-economic status, gender, and ethnicity. Additionally, an empirically-based and adaptable model for promoting student success will be developed that is dynamic, generalizable, and transferable to historically black colleges and universities, and other post-secondary institutions. Evaluation of this project will be performed, using a mixed-methods approach. Qualitative assessments will determine the effectiveness of mentoring, research experiences, and cohort building on increased enrollment, retention/persistence, and improved graduation rates of STEM students. In turn these qualitative methodologies will inform subsequent quantitative assessments. Results of this project will be disseminated through a variety of media, including a project website, social media, education journal publications, conference presentations and outreach activities. 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，通过支持在Prairie View A＆M University中表现出的经济需求的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业。 Prairie View A＆M University是一所历史悠久的黑人学院/大学，在经济上处于不利地位和服务不足的德克萨斯州人口。 在五年的持续时间内，该项目将为二十名攻读生物学，化学，物理或数学学士学位的学生提供四年奖学金。该项目旨在通过将这些奖学金与有效的辅助活动（例如共同建设，本科研究经验，指导，研究生院的准备以及参与纪律特定的会议）联系起来，以提高学生入学率，保留和持久性并提高4年毕业率。这样一来，该机构正在采用一种整体方法，以使其学生成为一名生物学家，化学家，物理学家或数学家的劳动力。 由于Prairie View A＆M University的人数不足，因此该项目将扩大代表性不足的少数民族在STEM领域的参与。 此外，该项目将进一步了解有效的基于证据的策略和活动，以促进学生参与和成功。 该项目的总体目标是增加在Prairie View A＆M大学表现出的低收入，高成就的大学生的茎学位完成。三个目标指导项目。首先，要增加生物学，化学，物理和数学的茎学科入学率。其次，通过让学生参与多维指导计划来提高3年保留/持久性数据和4年毕业率。第三，创建一个跨学科的知识学习社区，该社区促进项目学者的进步晋级STEM研究生计划或纳入STEM劳动力。该项目还将通过使用“交叉性”作为一种理论方法来研究培养STEM学生的保留/持久性和高毕业率在培养STEM学生保留/持久性和高毕业率方面的作用。特别是，该项目将提供有关如何满足STEM学生的需求的经验知情观点，这些STEM学生一次表现出多个单一的主要身份状态；具有多个同等加权标记的地位，例如社会经济地位，性别和种族。此外，还将开发一个基于经验的，可促进学生成功的模型，该模型是动态的，可推广的，并且可以转移到历史上的黑人学院和其他大专院校。 使用混合方法方法将对该项目进行评估。 定性评估将确定指导，研究经验和队列建设的有效性，以增加入学率，保留/持久性以及STEM学生的毕业率提高。反过来，这些定性方法将为随后的定量评估提供信息。 该项目的结果将通过各种媒体传播，包括项目网站，社交媒体，教育期刊出版物，会议演讲和外展活动。 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。