Collaborative Research: Workshop - BP in STEM, Computer Science and Engineering through Improved Financial Literacy

合作研究：研讨会 - 通过提高金融素养在 STEM、计算机科学和工程领域的 BP

基本信息

批准号：
1939739
负责人：
Felicia Jefferson
金额：
$ 2.18万
依托单位：
Fort Valley State 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：
2019-10-01 至 2022-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1939739&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Workshop BP STEM

项目摘要

This collaborative research award supports our nation's capacity to build computer science, engineering and related scientific/mathematical workforce excellence through contribution of a convergent, interdisciplinary, and knowledgeable team that possesses the requisite financial literacy knowledge base. This workshop will convene a consortium of academia, industry, and government to seek understanding on how student financial literacy and related topics impact broadening participation in the computer and information sciences and engineering future workforce. This activity will result in understanding motivations of students in considering financial options such as excessive student loan debt through the project's graduate financial options framework. The input from this consortium will allow additional understanding on underrepresented populations which are shown to have excessive debt in comparison to their counterparts and how it impacts their decisions to join and participate in the U.S. STEM workforce. While a few workshops have been held to discuss broadening participation of underrepresented populations in computer and information sciences and engineering, there has not yet been a dedicated workshop to address the gaps in entering the workforce as caused by lack of financial literacy. The intellectual merit of the proposed activity are the models investigated to support the graduate financial options framework. The workshop sessions will serve to inform and provide understanding on how future career choices of students from underrepresented populations in computer science and engineering and related convergent data science fields are negatively impacted by preconditions such as excessive student loan debt. The broader impact of this workshop of supporting research that impacts recruitment, retention, and entry into the workforce of underrepresented students is significant. We expect workshop involvement of underrepresented minority student populations from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions at the associate, bachelor, masters and doctoral degree levels in computer science and related convergent fields such as computational neuroscience, operations research, and data science to promote the breadth of computer and information sciences and engineering field. By addressing this important topic through this research, this project will support and provide understanding on how to increase America's role for innovation, excellence, and advancement in the contributions of underrepresented minority students to the US science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) 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.

该合作研究奖通过拥有必要的金融知识基础的融合、跨学科和知识渊博的团队的贡献，支持我们国家建设计算机科学、工程和相关科学/数学卓越劳动力的能力。本次研讨会将召集学术界、行业和政府组成的联盟，以寻求了解学生的金融知识和相关主题如何影响扩大对计算机和信息科学以及工程未来劳动力的参与。这项活动将通过该项目的研究生财务选择框架，了解学生考虑财务选择（例如过多的学生贷款债务）的动机。该联盟的投入将有助于进一步了解代表性不足的人群，这些人群与其他人群相比负债过多，以及这如何影响他们加入和参与美国 STEM 劳动力队伍的决定。虽然已经举办了一些研讨会来讨论扩大代表性不足的人群对计算机和信息科学与工程的参与，但尚未举办专门的研讨会来解决由于缺乏金融知识而导致进入劳动力市场的差距。拟议活动的智力价值是为支持研究生财务选择框架而研究的模型。研讨会将帮助人们了解计算机科学与工程以及相关融合数据科学领域代表性不足的学生未来的职业选择如何受到过多学生贷款债务等先决条件的负面影响。本次研讨会支持影响代表性不足的学生的招聘、保留和进入劳动力市场的研究，其更广泛的影响是重大的。我们期望来自历史悠久的黑人学院和大学以及西班牙裔服务机构的计算机科学和计算神经科学、运筹学和数据科学等相关融合领域的副学士、学士、硕士和博士学位级别的少数族裔学生群体参与研讨会，以促进计算机与信息科学与工程领域的广度。通过本研究解决这一重要主题，该项目将支持并提供关于如何增强美国在创新、卓越和进步方面的作用，以帮助代表性不足的少数族裔学生为美国科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 做出贡献该奖项反映了 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。