Scholarships to Support Undergraduate Student Success and Broaden Participation in Engineering and Computer Science

奖学金支持本科生成功并扩大对工程和计算机科学的参与

• 批准号: 2029907
• 负责人: Lin Li
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Tennessee State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029907&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarships; Support; Undergraduate; Student; Success

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 Tennessee State University. The University is a Historically Black University with a high population of students who are underrepresented in STEM fields. Over its five-year duration, the project will provide scholarships to 45 unique full-time students who are pursuing a bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science. Scholars will be admitted in five annual cohorts and receive up to two-and-half years of scholarship support. In addition to providing financial support, the project will support student success through cohort building activities, undergraduate research experiences, undergraduate student support services, summer internships, graduate school preparation, and participation in regional and national STEM conferences. Given the demographics of the student population and the recruiting activities for transfer students from regional community colleges, this project has the potential to broaden participation in the engineering and computer science workforce. Results from this project could inform other higher education institutions about effective student support services that can help students persist in STEM programs and help transfer students from community colleges make a smooth transition to a four-year STEM degree program.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project intends to help students persist in STEM degree programs and to help transfer students make a successful transition from community college to a four-year degree program by: (1) improving students’ engagement; (2) boosting retention and academic performance; and (3) enhancing student self-efficacy. Assessment and progress monitoring oversight teams will guide Scholar cohorts from entrance to matriculation. The project will create a living and learning community in which the learning model includes mutual academic support, mutual emotional support, social and community support, and industry involvement. Data from and about Scholars will be collected using established survey instruments and institutional records to determine how a student’s support network changes and grows as the student is matriculated, retained, and graduated from the selected STEM programs. By tracking and monitoring students’ academic performance, retention rates, and graduation rates, this project will provide insights on how to ensure student success in engineering and computer science. Project evaluation will use a mixed methods approach to evaluate the impact of the project activities on student success. The project results will be disseminated to the STEM education community through presentations at professional society conferences, publications in STEM education journals, and the project’s web site. 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.

该项目将通过支持田纳西州立大学的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业，这将促进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。该大学是一所历史悠久的黑人大学，在STEM领域中人数不足的学生人数众多。在五年的持续时间内，该项目将为正在攻读工程学或计算机科学学士学位的45名独特的全日制学生提供科学。学者将在五个年度人群中被录取，并获得多达两年半的奖学金支持。除了提供财务支持外，该项目还将通过队列建设活动，本科研究经验，学生支持服务，暑期实习，研究生院的准备以及参加区域和国家STEM会议来支持学生的成功。鉴于学生人数的人口统计以及来自地区社区大学的转学学生的招聘活动，该项目有可能扩大参与工程和计算机科学劳动力的参与。该项目的结果可以为其他高等教育机构提供有关有效的学生支持服务的信息，这些服务可以帮助学生坚持参加STEM计划，并帮助从社区大学转移学生，使学生顺利过渡到四年的STEM学位课程。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入，高分，高学位的本科生的STEM学位，并证明了经济上的财务需求。该项目旨在帮助学生继续参加STEM学位课程，并通过以下方式成功地从社区学院过渡到四年制学位课程。（1）改善学生的敬业度； （2）提高保留和学习成绩； （3）增强学生的自我有效。评估和进度监测监督团队将指导从入口到矩阵的学者同伙。该项目将创建一个生活和学习的社区，其中学习模型包括相互的学术支持，相互的情感支持，社会和社区支持以及行业参与。将使用既定的调查工具和机构记录来收集来自学者的数据，以确定学生的支持网络如何随着学生的重要性，保留和从所选的STEM计划毕业而增长。通过跟踪和监视学生的学习成绩，保留率和毕业率，该项目将提供有关如何确保学生在工程和计算机科学方面取得成功的见解。项目评估将使用一种混合方法来评估项目活动对学生成功的影响。通过在专业社会会议，STEM教育期刊的出版物和项目的网站上的演讲，该项目结果将被传播到STEM教育社区。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金提供资金，该计划旨在增加具有在STEM领域获得学位的经济需求的低收入才华横溢的学生的数量。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。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估的珍贵的支​​持。