Expanding Opportunities for the Success of Deaf and Hard of Hearing STEM majors

扩大聋人和听力障碍 STEM 专业成功的机会

• 批准号: 2130275
• 负责人: Gaurav Arora
• 金额: $ 135.71万
• 依托单位: Gallaudet University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-15 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2130275&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Expanding; Opportunities; Success; Deaf; Hard

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 Gallaudet University. Gallaudet University is the world’s only liberal arts university established to accommodate Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) students and its bilingual mission states that both American Sign Language (ASL) and English are used for instruction. The University provides tremendous support to DHH students and is well-positioned to increase the number of DHH individuals in the STEM workforce. Over its six-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 32 full-time or part-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Information Technology. Students of all years, including transfer students, are eligible to apply for the S-STEM scholarship. First-year students will receive up to four years of scholarship support and transfer students will receive up to two-year scholarships. This project will increase the number of DHH students in STEM through support activities such as mentoring, tutoring, preparation for graduate programs, presenting at conferences, and supporting an ASL accessible environment. The significance of the project is to generate STEM-focused linguistic content and improve the curriculum specific for DHH students. This type of supportive environment will help to increase the number of graduates in these majors and prepare students for STEM graduate school and careers.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The specific goals of the project are to increase and retain DHH students in STEM majors, provide academic and wellness support to the students, improve ASL access to the students and prepare students for STEM careers. The number of DHH undergraduates in STEM fields is low which leads to an underrepresentation of DHH individuals in STEM. Several factors contribute to this underrepresentation, chief among them being linguistic and cultural barriers. Gallaudet University can address these factors and provide mentoring experiences and support activities for STEM majors. At the end of the project, DHH STEM majors will gain skills to be successful in STEM careers that are in primarily hearing environments. The project also aims to increase the graduation rates of the STEM majors by 50%. The project will be evaluated using qualitative and quantitative data and the results will be disseminated through the School of Science, Technology, Accessibility, Mathematics and Public Health website, through peer reviewed publications, and at national conferences focused on STEM or deaf and hard of hearing 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.

该项目将通过支持有经济需要的高成就、低收入学生在加劳德特大学的保留和毕业，满足国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。加劳德特大学是世界上唯一的自由派大学。艺术大学是为聋哑和听力障碍 (DHH) 学生而建立的，其双语使命规定，使用美国手语 (ASL) 和英语进行教学，该大学为 DHH 学生提供巨大支持，并且该项目旨在增加 STEM 劳动力中 DHH 的数量，在为期六年的时间里，该项目将为 32 名正在攻读生物学、化学、数学或计算机科学学士学位的全日制或非全日制学生提供奖学金。信息技术。所有年级的学生，包括转学生，都有资格申请 S-STEM 奖学金。一年级学生将获得最多四年的奖学金支持，转学生将获得最多两年的奖学金。将增加通过指导、辅导、研究生课程准备、会议演讲和支持 ASL 无障碍环境等支持活动，增加 STEM 领域的 DHH 学生数量。该项目的意义在于生成以 STEM 为中心的语言内容并改进专门针对 STEM 的课程。 DHH 学生的这种支持性环境将有助于增加这些专业的毕业生数量，并为学生进入 STEM 研究生院和职业做好准备。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入、高成就本科生的 STEM 学位完成率。有财务证明的该项目的具体目标是增加和留住 STEM 专业的 DHH 学生，为学生提供学术和健康支持，提高学生对 ASL 的接触程度，并为学生的 STEM 职业做好准备。 STEM 领域的 DHH 本科生数量为。导致 DHH 个体在 STEM 中代表性不足的因素有很多，其中最主要的是语言和文化障碍，加劳德大学可以解决这些因素，并为 STEM 专业提供指导经验和支持活动。项目结束后，DHH STEM 专业的学生将获得在主要听力环境中获得成功的 STEM 职业技能。该项目还旨在将 STEM 专业的毕业率提高 50%。该项目将采用定性和定量的方式进行评估。数据和结果将通过科学、技术、无障碍、数学和公共卫生学院网站、同行评审出版物以及关注 STEM 或聋哑和听力障碍教育的全国会议传播。 NSF 的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金计划旨在增加获得 STEM 领域学位的低收入学术才华学生的数量，以及改善未来 STEM 工作者的教育。产生有关低收入学生的学业成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。