Creating Educational Pathways and Cultivating Leadership at a Hispanic-Serving Regional University to Prepare Undergraduates for STEM Careers in Water Science and Technology Fields

在一所为西班牙裔服务的地区大学创建教育途径并培养领导力，为本科生在水科学和技术领域的 STEM 职业做好准备

• 批准号: 2031497
• 负责人: Walter Den
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University-San Antonio
• 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: 2021-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031497&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Educational; Pathways; Cultivating; Leadership

This project will contribute to the national need for skilled scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians. To do so, it will support the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, a four-year regional, Hispanic serving institution. Over its five-year duration, the project will provide scholarships to 33 full-time students. The Scholars will be selected as five annual cohorts and include first-year students and third-year transfer students. They will receive one to four years of scholarship support as they pursue bachelor’s degrees in Biology, Water Resources Science and Technology, Mathematics, or Electronic Engineering and Technology. The Scholars will work with faculty research mentors on regional water resource challenges. Examples of research projects include analysis of water security in the increasingly urbanized areas of south-central Texas and design of low-impact restoration and development in sensitive watersheds. Because the University’s undergraduate student population is predominantly Hispanic, low-income, and first-generation, the project has the potential to diversify the STEM workforce, particularly in water-related fields.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project’s specific aims include: 1) developing student-faculty mentorship and learning assessment tools that elevate Scholars’ academic and career success; and 2) designing and implementing curriculum/co-curriculum improvements to prepare students for impactful STEM careers in water-related fields. Project investigators will test the hypothesis that basing learning activities on an issue of regional and social significance (water science and technology) will promote the Scholars’ scientific identity and bolster their academic achievement. The project team will also investigate the differential effects of scholarship selection criteria, length of scholarship, the status of cohorts, and the types of mentorship practices on Scholars’ academic achievement. The project will be evaluated using performance metrics from both faculty mentors (types of practices and their duration and frequency) and Scholars (academic performance, retention to graduation, graduate school matriculation). Project results will be made available through campus-wide seminars, workshops for schoolteachers, STEM education and professional conferences, and peer-reviewed publications. 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.

该项目将有助于熟练的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求。为此，它将支持德克萨斯州A＆M大学桑·安东尼奥（Antonio）的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业，这是一家四年制的西班牙裔西班牙裔服务机构。在五年的持续时间内，该项目将为33名全日制学生提供奖学金。学者将被选为五个年度队列，包括一年级学生和三年级的转学学生。在攻读生物学，水资源科学技术，数学或电子工程和技术学士学位时，他们将获得一到四年的奖学金支持。学者将与教师研究导师有关区域水资源挑战。研究项目的例子包括分析得克萨斯州中南部城市化地区的水安全以及敏感分水岭的低影响恢复和发展的设计。由于该大学的本科生人口主要是西班牙裔，低收入和第一代，因此该项目有可能使STEM劳动力多样化，尤其是在与水相关的领域中。该项目的总体目标是提高茎力完成低收入的低收入，高成就的较高学位，使其具有证明的财务需求。该项目的具体目的包括：1）发展学生 - 教师的心态和学习评估工具，以提高学者的学术和职业成功； 2）设计和实施课程/共同课程改进，以使学生在与水有关的领域中有影响力的STEM职业做好准备。项目调查人员将检验以下假设：在区域和社会意义问题上基于学习活动（水科学和技术）将促进学者的科学认同，并鲍尔斯特的学术成就。项目团队还将调查奖学金选择标准，奖学金的长度，同伙状态以及对学者学术成就的心态实践的类型的差异影响。该项目将使用来自教师导师（实践类型及其持续时间和频率）和学者（学习成绩，研究生保留，研究生院矩阵）的绩效指标进行评估。项目结果将通过校园范围内的半手，学校老师的讲习班，STEM教育和专业会议以及经过同行评审的出版物提供。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。