HSI Pilot Project: Broadening Research Experiences for HSI STEM Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (BREDEI)

HSI 试点项目：拓宽 HSI STEM 多样性、公平性和包容性的研究经验 (BREDEI)

• 批准号: 2122655
• 负责人: Walter Den
• 金额: $ 20万
• 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: 2021-09-01 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122655&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Pilot; Project; Broadening; Research; HSI; Pilot; Project; Broadening; Research

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-­Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to improve the quality, availability, and diversity of the STEM educational pipeline. By building a sustainable undergraduate field research program at Texas A&M University-­San Antonio, the project will develop a strong scientific and professional identity critical to the persistence in STEM majors and the motivation to pursue a science-­related career. We will develop role models, facilitate student participation in federally-­supported research projects, and provide field training programs to heighten the scientific literacy and identity among the participating students. As the project team validates the impact of these practices and develops them into a curricular program, the project will have a long-­term impact of cultivating reliable domestic talent from underrepresented populations by improving the disproportionately low representation of Hispanic students in south Texas in the aquatic ecology profession.Aquatic sciences are highly interdisciplinary and require a considerable amount of field experience that has not always been accessible to under-­represented student groups. We hypothesize that improving the availability of field research opportunities and role models are key to the success of minority STEM majors. Thus, the specific aims of the project are to (1) improve scientific literacy among minority communities, (2) broaden undergraduate research experiences focusing on assessing the health of stream ecosystems, (3) improve recruitment, retention, and graduation of minority students by offering field research and mentoring programs, and (4) establish a sustainable model for a field-­heavy curriculum via a collaborative model between HSIs, schools, public and private sector entities. These objectives will be achieved by implementing field-­training activities supported by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), the National Hispanic Environmental Council (NHEC), and the Texas Aquatic Science project. The outcome of the project will enable the development of a university faculty-reviewed field-­study curriculum for A&M-­SA that will benefit students from multiple natural resource majors. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also draw from these approaches to generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该曲目1项目旨在提高STEM教育管道的质量，可用性和多样性。通过在德克萨斯州A＆M大学 - 安东尼奥建立可持续的本科实地研究计划，该项目将开发出对STEM专业的持久性和购买与科学相关职业的动机至关重要的强大科学和专业身份。我们将开发榜样，促进学生参与联邦支持的研究项目，并提供现场培训计划，以增强参与学生的科学文献和身份。当项目团队验证这些实践的影响并将其发展为当前计划时，该项目将通过改善南德克萨斯州南德克萨斯州在水上生态专业中的西班牙裔学生的不成比例来培养可靠的国内人才的长期影响。我们假设提高现场研究机会的可用性和榜样是少数族裔专业成功的关键。 That, the specific aims of the project are to (1) improve scientific literacy among minority communities, (2) broaden undergraduate research experiences focusing on assessing the health of stream ecosystems, (3) improvement recruitment, retention, and graduation of minority students by offering field research and mentaling programs, and (4) establish a sustainable model for a field-heavy curriculum via a collaborative model between HSIs, schools, public and private sector实体。这些目标将通过实施由国家生态观测网络（NEON），国家西班牙裔环境委员会（NHEC）和德克萨斯水上科学项目支持的实地训练活动来实现。该项目的结果将使A＆M-SA的大学教师评审的现场研究课程开发，该课程将使来自多个自然资源专业的学生受益。 HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育，扩大参与STEM并在HSIS建立能力。鉴于HSI的多样性和背景，实现这些目标需要创新的方法，以增加机构和社区的转型，并促进对参与学生学习的基础研究（i），（ii）关于有效地使STEM参与和（iii）提高我们对HSIS机构能力的理解的有效多样化和（III）所需的方式。 HSI计划支持的项目还将从这些方法中汲取灵感，以产生有关如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，通过评估诚实地表示支持。