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

• 批准号: 2138188
• 负责人: David Knight
• 金额: $ 239.95万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and 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=2138188&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Hub; Understanding; Inter

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.

该 S-STEM 研究中心将通过支持有经济需求的高成就、低收入学生的保留和毕业，满足国家对受过良好教育的工程师的需求。该研究中心是弗吉尼亚理工大学和北弗吉尼亚社区之间的合作项目。学院、韦伯州立大学和辛辛那提大学将把与这些学生相关的许多挑战重新定义为“组织”挑战，而不是“与学生相关的”挑战，致力于使复杂的学生支持网络更好地发挥作用。对于学生来说，这个研究中心是明确的。重点关注首次上大学的学生和转学生，确保这项研究将支持扩大 STEM 参与的持续努力，并为学生找到更具成本效益的获得学士学位的方法。该中心将支持一系列综合活动。 ，每个项目都旨在参与一系列以低收入工程专业学生为核心的项目，该中心将支持 STEM 奖学金 (S-STEM) 项目社区（总共 40 个）的加速器拨款，重点是了解其有效性。合作伙伴关系设计、流程和结构；四组资助团队将受到中心领导层的结构化指导，与加速器资助相关的组织合作伙伴将被邀请参加暑期学院，分享跨项目的想法和数据，并制定针对校园的复杂的行动计划。支持可以更好地发挥作用，将确定 STEM 教育系统的新效率，以便更明智地利用有限的资源，并扩大效益。该研究中心的总体目标是提高低收入、高成就者的 STEM 学位完成率尽管人们不断呼吁在 STEM 教育系统中进行基于伙伴关系的系统性、结构性和可持续变革，但了解这种伙伴关系如何建立、设计和维持仍然是一个难以实现的目标。该项目将增进对组织的理解。支持国内低收入工程学生的学术道路的伙伴关系，解决了一个首要问题：如何设计、建立和维持机构内和机构间的伙伴关系，以系统地支持低收入工程学生的成功？参与 S-STEM 项目重点关注不同机构背景下的低收入工程学生，这将确保拟议的数据收集和整合取得成功，包括研究加速器赠款和暑期学院，因为加速器赠款项目将根据机构内部的具体情况并结合行动计划的制定。在夏季峰会期间，该中心的研究活动将导致跨机构的实际流程改进。该中心还将根据有关合作、机构逻辑和课外支持模式的文献，对 S-STEM 项目负责人进行多个案例研究。和他们的该活动将把 S-STEM 项目和其他档案数据集的现有学生成功数据流与新生成的合作伙伴关系数据流相结合，通过将不同的组织合作伙伴模型和方法与学生现有的成功数据流联系起来，该中心将生成。关于学院和大学可能希望制度化的伙伴关系流程和合作类型的新知识，以最好地支持低收入工程专业的学生。该中心将为 S-STEM 社区提供易于使用且有用的产品（例如，研究到实践简介）。 ）并发展一个充满活力的实践社区该项目由美国国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金计划资助，旨在增加低收入学术学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来 STEM 工作者的教育，并提供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。该奖项体现了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，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。

项目成果

NSF S-STEM Program - Supporting Undergraduate Cohorts of Career-Ready Engineering and Science Scholars (SUCCESS) Project at WVU Tech – Year 2 updates

NSF S-STEM 计划 - 支持西弗吉尼亚大学理工学院的本科生就业准备工程和科学学者 (SUCCESS) 项目 – 第二年更新

• DOI: 10.55632/pwvas.v95i2.1008
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science
• 作者: Hatipoglu, Kenan;Panta, Yogendra;Bui, Cao Thang;Floyd-Smith, Tamara;Neff, Joan
• 通讯作者: Neff, Joan

Organizational Partnerships S-STEM Research Hub

组织伙伴关系 S-STEM 研究中心

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 130th Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education
• 作者: Knight, D. B.

Identifying barriers to recruiting low-income students into engineering master’s programs

确定招收低收入学生进入工程硕士课程的障碍

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: American Association for Engineering Education
• 作者: Berdanier, C. G.;Peeples, T.;Cohan, C.;Urbina, J.;Hamilton, R.;Reed, C.
• 通讯作者: Reed, C.