Collaborative Research: Practices and Research on Student Pathways in Education from Community College and Transfer Students in STEM (PROSPECT S-STEM)

合作研究：社区学院学生教育途径和 STEM 转学生的实践与研究 (PROSPECT S-STEM)

• 批准号: 2138058
• 负责人: Vashti Sawtelle
• 金额: $ 42万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2138058&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Practices; Student; Pathways

This S-STEM Research Hub 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. Across the past decade, 40%-50% of college students in the United States each year started their postsecondary education at a two-year college. Students enrolled at two-year colleges are more likely to be low-income and from historically underrepresented groups, compared to students who start postsecondary education enrolled in four-year colleges. Led by a collaborative team of universities and community colleges representing 9 current NSF S-STEM projects, the PROSPECT S-STEM research hub will explore how equitable partnerships between two-year colleges and four-year institutions can empower low-income STEM transfer students. Researchers at Clemson University, East Carolina University, Southeast Community College, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Augsburg University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of Texas at Arlington, and YNOTI Solutions along with 14 two-year college partners are united by their goal to support domestic, low-income undergraduates as they navigate the transfer process. Numerous challenges exist that can make it difficult for students to successfully transfer from two- and four-year colleges, which in turn can reduce the likelihood that these students earn a bachelor’s degree. This project will address this issue by collecting and analyzing national-level data to highlight transfer issues. The hub’s research will support the development of strategies and resources to build institutional partnerships designed to increase positive outcomes for low-income transfer students. The PROSPECT S-STEM Hub will operate as a research and dissemination hub to investigate the nature of two- and four-year colleges’ partnerships and how developing co-equitable partnerships can better support low-income STEM scholars before and after the transition process. There is a need to understand how two- and four-year colleges can effectively establish and maintain partnerships. Equitable partnerships that support transfer students necessarily involve a range of stakeholders across institutions. PROSPECT S-STEM will examine the nature of these partnerships through: a) longitudinal case studies of two- and four-year college partnerships trying to improve STEM transfer student success; and b) the establishments of professional learning communities with key stakeholders, including advisors, faculty, financial aid, student affairs professionals, and other administrators involved with transfer policies and programs. Our investigation of these partnerships is framed through the lens of community cultural wealth, partnership capital, and dimension of equity. The mixed methods research will include interviews, participant concept mapping, document analysis, and survey data from S-STEM Scholars. PROSPECT S-STEM will target dissemination to researchers, advisors, student affairs professionals, administrators and other stakeholders who support STEM transfer students, thus facilitating the scale up of this project’s practices and findings to others seeking to support low-income STEM transfer students. This hub 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S-STEM研究中心将通过支持具有良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求，通过支持具有表现出财务需求的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业。在过去的十年中，美国每年有40％-50％的大学生在一所两年的大学开始了高等教育。与开始在四年制大学入学后教育的学生相比，在两年学院招生的学生更有可能是低收入和历史占代表性不足的群体。在代表9个当前NSF S-STEM项目的大学和社区学院的合作团队的领导下，Prospect S-STEM研究中心将探讨两年级大学和四年制机构之间的公平合作伙伴关系如何增强低收入STEM转移学生的能力。克莱姆森大学，东卡罗莱纳大学，东南社区学院，密苏里 - 堪萨斯大学，内布拉斯加州林肯大学，奥格斯堡大学，奥格斯堡大学，北卡罗来纳大学格林斯伯勒大学，德克萨斯大学阿灵顿大学的阿尔灵顿大学和YNOTI解决方案以及14个两年的大学合作伙伴以及他们的目标是他们的攻击量，以支持国内的14个大学合作伙伴。存在许多挑战，使学生很难从两年和四年的大学中成功转移，这反过来又可以减少这些学生获得学士学位的可能性。该项目将通过收集和分析国家级数据来突出转移问题来解决此问题。枢纽的研究将支持制定战略和资源，以建立旨在提高低收入转移学生积极成果的机构合作伙伴关系。 Prospect S-STEM枢纽将作为研究和传播中心运行，以调查两年和四年制大学的伙伴关系的性质，以及建立共同合作伙伴关系在过渡过程之前和之后如何更好地支持低收入STEM学者。有必要了解两年和四年的大学如何有效建立和维持伙伴关系。支持转学生的公平合作伙伴关系必然涉及机构跨机构的一系列利益相关者。 Prospect S-STEM将通过以下方式检查这些伙伴关系的性质： b）与主要利益相关者（包括顾问，教职员工，经济援助，学生事务专业人员以及参与转会政策和计划的其他管理人员）的专业学习社区的建立。我们对这些伙伴关系的投资是通过社区文化财富，合伙资本和公平维度的镜头构建的。混合方法研究将包括访谈，参与者概念映射，文档分析和来自S-STEM学者的调查数据。 Prospect S-STEM将针对研究人员，顾问，学生事务专业人员，管理人员和其他支持STEM转移学生的利益相关者的传播，从而支持该项目实践的规模，并向其他寻求支持低收入STEM转移学生的人的发现。该枢纽由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证明经济需求的低收入学术才华学生的数量，他们在STEM领域获得了学位。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。