Scholarships and Science Opportunities, Activities, and Research to Support Undergraduate STEM Student Success

支持本科 STEM 学生成功的奖学金和科学机会、活动和研究

• 批准号: 2030650
• 负责人: John Wheeler
• 金额: $ 99.98万
• 依托单位: Furman 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: 2020-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2030650&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarships; Science; Opportunities; Activities; Research; Scholarships; Science; Opportunities; Activities; Research

This project will contribute to the national demand for well-educated scientists by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need at Furman University, a national liberal arts university. Over its five-year duration, the project will fund scholarships to 24 unique full-time students pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry, Biology, Neuroscience, or Geosciences. Scholars will receive up to $10,000/year in scholarship support, renewable for four years. They will also engage in evidence-based supports and services, including an eight-day summer bridge experience. Through their entire college tenure, the Scholars will receive cohort-based advising that includes weekly seminar/workshop meetings during the Scholars’ first two years. Scholars will further benefit from curricular enhancements, including an adaptive online review of precalculus, and joint enrollment in introductory chemistry and first-year writing courses that use active learning and peer learning assistants. Scholars will also benefit from guaranteed support for early undergraduate research experiences. This suite of experiences, supports, and services is designed to enhance Scholars’ academic and social integration, helping Scholars progress to graduation and preparation for the STEM workforce or postgraduate STEM education. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Student participants will be Pell-eligible, with primary objectives to: (i) ensure that Scholar recruitment includes students self-identifying as first generation or as members of a group that is underrepresented in STEM; (ii) improve performance and resiliency in gateway chemistry and math courses; (iii) achieve a 90% four-year graduation rate, with at least 85% of initial enrollees completing a primary STEM degree. This effort expands a previous Track 1 S-STEM project to strengthen best practices for STEM intervention applied to under-resourced participants. Effectiveness pf project activities will be measured through research and evaluation focusing on multiple dimensions, including quantitative measures of academic success, STEM identity (including self-concept, sense of purpose and STEM socialization), community belonging, resiliency, and indicators of a life of purpose and meaning. This work seeks to advance understanding and plans to disseminate transferable outcomes and best practices locally and nationally, through conference presentations and publications in STEM education journals. 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.

该项目将通过支持国民自由艺术大学Furman University的经济需求的高成就学生的保留和毕业，从而为国家对受过良好教育的科学家的需求做出贡献。在五年的持续时间内，该项目将为24名独特的全日制学生提供奖学金，攻读化学，生物学，神经科学或地球科学学士学位。学者将获得高达$ 10,000/年的科学支持，可续签四年。他们还将参与循证支持和服务，包括八天的夏季桥梁体验。通过他们的整个大学任期，学者将获得总部位于同伙的咨询，其中包括学者头两年期间每周的半手/讲习班会议。学者将进一步受益于课程改进，包括对预丘的自适应在线审查，以及使用积极学习和同伴学习助理的化学和第一年写作课程的共同入学。学者们还将受益于对早期本科研究经验的保证支持。这套经验，支持和服务旨在增强学者的学术和社会融合，帮助学者们进步毕业和为STEM劳动力或研究生STEM教育做准备。该项目的总体目标是增加茎学位的完成，以证明财务需求，使低收入，高成就的大学生的本科生完成。学生参与者将符合佩尔的资格，主要对象是：（i）确保招聘学者包括自我认同为第一代或作为STEM代表人数不足的小组成员的学生； （ii）提高门户化学和数学课程的性能和弹性； （iii）达到90％的四年研究生率，至少有85％的初始入学率完成了初级茎学位。这项工作扩大了以前的曲目1 S-STEM项目，以加强用于用于资源不足参与者的STEM干预措施的最佳实践。 PF项目活动的有效性将通过研究和评估进行衡量，重点是多个维度，包括对学术成功的定量测量，STEM认同（包括自我概念，目的和STEM社会化），社区归属，弹性以及目的和意义的生活指标。这项工作旨在通过STEM教育期刊上的会议演讲和出版物来促进理解和计划，以在本地和全国范围内传播可转移的结果和最佳实践。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，该计划旨在增加在STEM领域赢得学位的经济需求的低收入学术对待学生的数量。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。