Excelerate: Inspiring Excellence and Accelerating Achievement Through a STEM Scholars Program

Excelerate：通过 STEM 学者计划激发卓越并加速取得成就

• 批准号: 2129974
• 负责人: Amanda Sharrow
• 金额: $ 149.99万
• 依托单位: Mississippi Gulf Coast 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 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2129974&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Excelerate; Inspiring; Excellence; Accelerating; Achievement

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 Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. Over its 6-year duration, this project will fund scholarships for 115 full-time students pursuing associate degrees in biological science, physical science, mathematics/statistics, computer and information science, engineering, and emerging technology fields. First-year students will receive up to two years of scholarship support. The project’s goal is to increase student persistence and completion in STEM fields by providing scholarships coupled with effective support activities including mentoring, learning communities, advising, an early alert system, ePortfolios, and a Summer Bridge Program. This project will improve STEM education and offer additional opportunities to pursue STEM courses of study to groups of students whose participation in STEM lags below their proportion in the overall population. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. This project will investigate how students benefit from co-curricular strategies such as cohorts and faculty mentoring when they are combined with other strategies like peer mentoring, summer bridge programs, co-curricular supports, and early alert systems. This project has the potential to advance the understanding of how these interventions contribute to the persistence and completion rates for a diverse group of students in STEM disciplines. Quantitative and qualitative measures will be used to determine project outcomes and the extent to which they are effective and replicable. End of semester surveys, and student progress reports will form the basis of a formative evaluation effort. Results of this project will be made available through a public webpage, presentations at regional conferences, and publications in peer-reviewed 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.

该项目将通过支持密西西比州墨西哥湾沿岸社区学院的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求做出贡献。在其6年的持续时间内，该项目将为攻读生物科学，物理科学，数学/统计，计算机和信息科学，工程和新兴技术领域的115名全日制学生的科学资助。一年级学生将获得多达两年的奖学金支持。该项目的目标是通过提供奖学金以及有效的支持活动，包括心理，学习社区，咨询，早期警报系统，ePortfolios和夏季桥梁计划，从而提高学生在STEM领域的持久性和完成。该项目将改善STEM教育，并为参与STEM滞后的学生群体进行STEM学习课程提供更多的机会。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。该项目将调查学生如何与其他策略与其他策略相结合（例如同行指导，夏季桥梁计划，课外支持和早期的警报系统），从而受益于队列和教师指导。该项目有可能提高人们对这些干预措施如何促进STEM学科学生群体的持久性和完成率的理解。定量和定性措施将用于确定项目结果以及它们的有效和可复制程度。学期末调查和学生进度报告将构成形成性评估工作的基础。该项目的结果将通过公共网页，区域会议的演示以及同行评审期刊的出版物提供。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学术才华的学生的数量。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。