Collaborative Research: A Research Hub for Understanding Inter- and intra-institutional partnerships that systematically support low-income engineering students

合作研究：一个了解机构间和机构内伙伴关系的研究中心，系统地支持低收入工程专业的学生

基本信息

批准号：
2138112
负责人：
Dustin Grote
金额：
$ 20万
依托单位：
Weber 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：
2022-01-15 至 2026-12-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2138112&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Hub Understanding Inter

项目摘要

This S-STEM Research Hub will contribute to the national need for well-educated engineers by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. The research hub is a collaboration between Virginia Tech, Northern Virginia Community College, Weber State University, and the University of Cincinnati. This project will reframe the many challenges associated with these students to be “organizational” challenges as opposed to “student-related” challenges, working on making the complex web of student supports work better for students. This research hub’s explicit focus on both first-time-in-college and transfer students ensures that this research will support ongoing efforts to broaden participation in STEM and identify more cost-effective ways for students to earn a bachelor’s degree. The hub will support a series of integrated activities, each designed to engage a diverse set of programs with a core focus on low-income engineering students. This hub will support accelerator grants from the Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) program community (40 total) focused on understanding the efficacy of their partnership designs, processes, and structures; four cohorts of grant teams will receive structured mentoring from hub leadership. Organizational partners associated with the accelerator grants will be invited to summer institutes to share ideas and data across projects and build campus-specific action plans. Illuminating how the complex web of student support can work better will identify new efficiencies in the STEM education system so that limited resources can be more wisely spent, and benefits can be extended.The overall goal of this Research Hub is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Although there are continual calls for partnership-enabled systemic, structural, and sustainable change within STEM education systems, understanding how such partnerships are built, designed, and sustained remains an elusive goal. This project will advance understanding of organizational partnerships that support academic pathways for domestic low-income engineering students, addressing the overarching question: How can intra- and inter-institutional partnerships be designed, built, and sustained to systematically support low-income engineering student success? The hub has specific mechanisms to engage S-STEM programs focused on low-income engineering students across diverse institutional contexts which will ensure that proposed data collection and integration will be successful, including research accelerator grants and summer institutes. Because accelerator grant projects will be contextually specific within institutions and coupled with the development of action plans during summer summits, the hub’s research activities will result in actual process improvements across institutions. Informed by literature on collaboration, institutional logics, and the model of co-curricular supports, the hub will also conduct a multiple case study of S-STEM program leaders and their organizational partners. This activity will integrate existing student success data streams across S-STEM programs and other archival data sets with the newly generated partnerships data stream. By linking the different organizational partnership models and approaches to existing student success data streams, the hub will generate new knowledge regarding the kinds of partnership processes and collaborations that colleges and universities may want to institutionalize to best support low-income engineering students. The hub will produce accessible and useful products for the S-STEM community (e.g., research-to-practice briefs) and develop a vibrant community of practice from a diverse range of institutions focused on research-informed organizational partnerships that support low-income engineering students. 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.

这个S-STEM研究中心将通过支持具有表现出经济需求的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，从而为受过良好教育的工程师的国家需求做出贡献。研究中心是弗吉尼亚理工大学，北弗吉尼亚社区学院，韦伯州立大学和辛辛那提大学之间的合作。该项目将反映与这些学生相关的许多挑战是“组织”的挑战，而不是“与学生相关”的挑战，致力于使复杂的学生支持对学生的效果更好。该研究中心的明确专注于首次校长和转学学生，可确保这项研究将支持持续的努力来扩大对STEM的参与，并确定学生获得学士学位的更具成本效益的方式。该枢纽将支持一系列集成的活动，每个活动旨在参与一组潜水员的计划，核心关注低收入工程专业的学生。该枢纽将支持STEM（S-STEM）计划社区奖学金（总数40）的加速器赠款，重点是了解其合作伙伴设计，过程和结构的效率；四个赠款团队将从中心领导中获得结构化的心理。与加速器赠款相关的组织合作伙伴将被邀请到夏季研究所，以跨项目分享想法和数据，并构建特定于校园的行动计划。阐明复杂的学生支持网络如何更好地工作，将确定STEM教育系统中的新效率，以便可以更明智地花费有限的资源，并可以扩大利益。该研究中心的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就的不足学不足的人的STEM学位，并具有证明的财务需求。尽管有持续呼吁STEM教育系统内建立具有伙伴关系的系统，结构性和可持续变化的呼吁，但了解如何建立，设计和持续的伙伴关系仍然是一个弹性目标。该项目将促进对支持国内低收入工程学生的学术途径的组织合作伙伴关系，解决总体问题：如何设计，建立和持续以系统地支持低收入工程学生的成功？该枢纽具有特定的机制，可以参与针对潜水机构背景下低收入工程学生的S STEM计划，这将确保拟议的数据收集和集成能够成功，包括研究加速器赠款和夏季机构。由于加速器赠款项目将在机构中具有上下文特定，并在夏季峰会期间的行动计划制定，因此中心的研究活动将导致整个机构的实际过程改进。在有关协作，机构逻辑和同学支持模型的文献中，该中心还将对S-STEM计划领导者及其组织合作伙伴进行多个案例研究。该活动将将跨S-STEM程序和其他档案数据集的现有学生成功数据流与新生成的伙伴关系数据流集成。通过将不同的组织合作伙伴模型和方法与现有学生成功数据流联系起来，该枢纽将产生有关大学和大学可能希望制度化的合作伙伴流程和合作的新知识，以最好地支持低收入的低收入工程学生。该枢纽将为S-STEM社区（例如，练习简介）生产可访问且有用的产品，并从专注于研究知识的组织合作伙伴关系的潜水机构中开发一个充满活力的实践社区，这些机构支持低收入工程学生。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，该计划旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的经济需求的准确治疗的低收入学生的数量。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。