Creating Opportunities for High-achieving Students in Science and Mathematics through Scholarships, Research Experiences, Leadership, and Community

通过奖学金、研究经验、领导力和社区为科学和数学方面成绩优异的学生创造机会

• 批准号: 2030763
• 负责人: Gretchen North
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Occidental College
• 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=2030763&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Opportunities; achieving; Students; Science

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 Occidental College, a private liberal arts college. It will do so by providing financial, academic, and personal support to academically high-achieving students with financial need majoring in Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics and Physics. Over its five-year duration, the project will support two annual cohorts of ten second-year students with scholarships of up to $10,000 per year for up to three years. The project builds upon a successful prior Track 1 S-STEM award and will provide Scholars with opportunities for scientific research, internships, intellectual growth, and professional skill development. The project will generate and disseminate knowledge about promoting student success and increasing students’ perception of belonging in STEM. The overall goal of the project is to increase STEM degree completion of low income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The plan to achieve this goal includes recruiting, inspiring, and developing a diverse group of low-income, academically high-achieving STEM majors to identify as scientists and leaders in STEM. The project will complement and strengthen support services at the College by creating and implementing five initiatives: 1) a new first-year, writing-intensive STEM-focused seminar course; 2) a new third-year seminar course for STEM majors centered around scientific communication, career readiness, and professional development; 3) providing guaranteed opportunities for scholars to participate in undergraduate research, internship experiences, and disciplinary conferences; 4) enhanced advising and strategic mentoring; 5) multiple leadership opportunities in various settings and modalities, including peer-to-peer, community-based, role-modelling, volunteer, and direct assistance. The efficacy of the project components will be evaluated both formatively and summatively using multi-modal approaches to collecting and analyzing data associated with the project’s stated goals and objectives. The project has a robust research agenda that centers on determining barriers in STEM, their effects on retention and persistence, and how STEM identity evolves as students traverse their academic trajectory. The research plan includes closely tracking two entire classes of entering first-year college students through graduation to monitor how an age-structured cohort may provide younger students with inspiration and mentorship and older students with leadership skills and a deepened understanding of scientific practices that will inform their subsequent careers and education. 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.

该项目将通过支持私立自由艺术学院西方学院的高分，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，工程师和技术的国家需求。它将通过为拥有生物学，生物化学，化学，地质，数学和物理学的经济需求的学术成就良好的学生提供财务，学术和个人支持来做到这一点。在五年的持续时间内，该项目将支持两名年度的十二年学生，每年最高可达10,000美元的科学工作，最多三年。该项目基于成功的先前曲目1 S-STEM奖，并将为学者提供科学研究，实习，智力增长和专业技能发展的机会。该项目将产生并传播有关促进学生成功并增加学生对STEM中归属感的看法的知识。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入的茎学位，并表现出财务需求的高成就的大学生。实现这一目标的计划包括招募，启发和发展一个由低收入，学术上高成就的STEM专业的潜水员群体，以确定为STEM的科学家和领导者。该项目将通过创建和实施五个举措来补充和加强大学的支持服务：1）新的一年级，以写作密集型STEM为重点的半隔离课程； 2）围绕科学沟通，职业准备和专业发展的新的三年级半课程； 3）为学者提供保证的机会参加本科研究，实习经验和纪律会议； 4）增强咨询和战略性心理； 5）在各种环境和模式中的多个领导机会，包括点对点，基于社区的，角色模型，志愿者和直接帮助。将使用多模式的方法来评估项目组件的效率，以收集和分析与项目既定目标相关的数据进行评估。该项目具有强大的研究议程，该议程旨在确定STEM的障碍，其对保留和持久性的影响以及随着学生穿越学术轨迹的影响。该研究计划包括通过毕业仔细跟踪两种进入一年级大学生的课程，以监控年龄结构化的队列如何为年轻的学生提供灵感和心态，并为年龄较大的学生提供领导能力，并深入了解科学实践，这将为他们后来的职业和教育提供信息。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证明经济需求的低收入学术才华的学生人数，他们在STEM领域获得了学位。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。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来诚实地通过评估来诚实地支持。