Inclusive Community Collaboration and Supportive Cohorts to Improve STEM Student Success

包容性社区合作和支持性群体可提高 STEM 学生的成功

• 批准号: 2123225
• 负责人: Keith Schloeman
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Chemeketa Community College
• 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: 2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2123225&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Inclusive; Community; Collaboration; Supportive; Cohorts

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this project will combine a STEM-focused faculty community of practice with student support strategies to improve the enrollment, persistence, and degree attainment of students who are underrepresented in their participation in STEM disciplines at Chemeketa College. The state of Oregon is experiencing an increased demand for qualified STEM professionals, and this project intends to meet that demand by diversifying, and hence expanding the population of students entering the STEM workforce. A combination of approaches will be used, including professional development aimed at encouraging culturally responsive teaching practices, and enhanced student support services including fostering of cohorts, awarding of scholarships, and mentoring. This combination of strategies, applied at an Hispanic-serving community college, will generate new knowledge regarding the combined impact of direct financial support, mentorship, and faculty professional development to improve student outcomes. This project is expected to lead to an increase in the number of women and persons of color successfully pursuing and attaining degrees in STEM fields.The project will pilot targeted student supports and faculty professional development in order to increase the enrollment, retention, and degree attainment of students whose participation in STEM fields of study is below that of their proportional representation in the overall population. The college will collect data to identify the strategies that are most effective in improving the undergraduate STEM education experience for a diverse body of students at this Hispanic-serving community college. Mathematics faculty will participate in professional development workshops on culturally responsive teaching that will lead to numerous course redesigns. The project will establish a cohort of students that will benefit from scholarships and increased access to mentors and course-embedded tutors. Through these efforts, the college expects to identify a core set of practices that can be enacted systematically across all STEM disciplines. 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.

在改善的本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该项目将结合一个注重STEM的教师社区的实践社区与学生支持策略，以提高入学人数，坚持不足和学位的成就不足的学生他们参加Chemeketa学院的STEM学科。俄勒冈州的状态正在经历对合格STEM专业人员的需求增加，该项目打算通过多样化来满足这一需求，从而扩大进入STEM劳动力的学生人数。将使用多种方法，包括旨在鼓励文化反应迅速的教学实践的专业发展，并增强了学生的支持服务，包括促进队列，奖励奖学金和指导。在西班牙裔服务社会学院应用的这种策略的结合将产生有关直接财务支持，指导和教师专业发展的共同影响以改善学生成果的新知识。 预计该项目将导致在STEM领域成功追求和获得学位的妇女和有色人种的数量增加。该项目将针对学生支持和教师专业发展，以提高入学率，保留和学位的成就参与STEM研究领域的学生低于其在整体人群中的比例代表。该学院将收集数据，以确定在这所西班牙裔社区学院为各种各样的学生改善本科STEM教育经验最有效的策略。数学教师将参加有关文化响应敏感教学的专业发展研讨会，这将导致许多课程重新设计。该项目将建立一系列学生，这些学生将从奖学金中受益，并增加与导师的访问权和课程所限制的导师。通过这些努力，学院希望确定可以在所有STEM学科中系统地制定的核心实践。 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，以激励机构和社区转型，并促进有关参与学生学习的基础研究（i），（ii）关于多样化和增加参与STEM参与的措施，（iii）提高了我们对如何在HSIS建立机构能力的理解。 HSI计划支持的项目还将从这些方法中获取，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，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持的。