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.

历史上黑人学院和大学的实施项目 - 本科计划 (HBCU-UP) 为设计、实施、研究和评估综合机构努力提供支持，通过加强科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究。哈里斯-斯托州立大学 (HSSU) 是一所小型、公立、开放的 HBCU，该实施项目提供了一种多层次的方法，为非裔美国学生扩大在 STEM 专业取得成功的机会。该项目重点关注 STEM 职业和劳动力发展途径，为学生提供足够适应性和灵活性的创业能力和技能，以有竞争力地应对不断变化的 STEM 劳动力需求以及研究生院准备。该项目由正在进行的评估和研究以及内部和外部咨询委员会指导和提供信息。该项目建立在之前两个非常成功的实施项目的基础上，这两个项目在大学建立了 STEM 项目。它将开展各种活动，旨在灌输创业思维，介绍现实世界的 STEM 经验，并为 STEM 学生培养重要的非认知技能，目标是提高保留率、毕业和研究生院或劳动力准备。这将通过以下目标来实现：引入重新设计的课程和课外活动，旨在扩大学生对 STEM 职业道路的理解，并引入和促进创业思维和技能；开展活动，招收从社区大学转学到 HSSU 的学生；提升对当代 STEM 劳动力或研究生院成功至关重要的认知和非认知技能。该项目有望在大学和周边社区产生更广泛的影响。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进行评估，被认为值得支持。