S-STEM-Hub: Investigating the Capacity of Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Develop, Accommodate, and Graduate Low-Income STEM Students

S-STEM-Hub：调查历史上黑人学院和大学培养、容纳和毕业低收入 STEM 学生的能力

• 批准号: 2138273
• 负责人: IVORY TOLDSON
• 金额: $ 299.92万
• 依托单位: QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK
• 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=2138273&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STEM; Hub; Investigating; Capacity; Historically

This S-STEM Research Hub is coordinated by the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network in partnership with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and seeks to better understand strategies for engaging and graduating low-income STEM students. The QEM-AIR Research Hub (The Hub) will provide an infrastructure for a strategic HBCU alliance to collaborate and expand their knowledge base on effective strategies to support domestic, low-income, talented STEM students. This knowledge is of utmost strategic importance for the Nation because the current composition of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce does not reflect the current racial diversity of the U.S., and the intersection of race and socioeconomic status belies current efforts to broaden participation by exclusively focusing on race. According to the National Science Foundation National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, in 2017, Blacks or African Americans represented approximately 12% of the U.S. adult population between the ages of 18-64 years; however, in 2016, their share of bachelor’s degrees awarded in science and engineering (S&E) were 9% and 4%, respectively. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a prominent role in the STEM education of African Americans, a role that is disproportionate to their representation among the Nation’s institutions of higher education. Although HBCUs represent only 3% of the nation’s institutions of higher learning, Fiegener & Proudfoot demonstrated that by 2013 they remain among the nation’s top baccalaureate-origin institutions for a significant proportion of African American S&E doctoral recipients. HBCUs share a common mission to provide and increase educational opportunities for underserved communities and are uniquely positioned to contribute to the nation’s efforts to diversify the STEM workforce. Understanding HBCUs strategies for engaging and graduating low-income STEM students is vital to the future STEM workforce.This Research Hub infrastructure will include curated virtual learning and sharing opportunities, capacity building and technical assistance webinars, and dissemination activities. Also, The Hub will use retention theory as a framework and conduct rigorous, primary research on developing, accommodating, and graduating domestic low-income STEM students who begin or transition into postsecondary education at HBCUs. The project goals are to: 1) conduct robust and innovative research to understand the optimal pathways by which low-income students matriculate at HBCUs and enter successful careers in STEM; 2) provide capacity building, technical support, and strategic alliances for HBCU researchers to contribute to our collective understanding of pathways to success for low-income STEM students; and 3) disseminate research findings on optimal pathways for low-income students to matriculate at HBCUs and enter successful careers in STEM within academia, government, nonprofits, and industry.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研究中心由少数民族（QEM）网络的质量教育与美国研究所（AIR）合作，并寻求更好地了解参与和毕业的低收入STEM学生的策略。 QEM-Air Research Hub（The Hub）将为战略HBCU联盟提供基础架构，以协作和扩大其知识基础，以支持家庭，低收入，才华横溢的STEM学生的有效策略。这种知识对国家来说是最重要的战略重要性，因为当前科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的组成并不能反映美国当前的种族多样性，并且种族和社会经济地位的交汇处掩盖了当前的努力，从而通过专门专注于种族来扩大参与。根据国家科学基金会国家科学与工程统计中心的数据，2017年，黑人或非洲裔美国人约占18-64岁之间美国成年人口的12％。但是，在2016年，他们在科学和工程学（S＆E）授予的学士学位的份额分别为9％和4％。 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a prominent role in the STEM education of African Americans, a role that is disproportionate to their representation among the Nation’s Although HBCUs represent only 3% of the nation’s institutions of higher learning, Fiegener & Proudfoot demonstrated that by 2013 they remain among the nation’s top baccalaureate-origin institutions for a significant proportion of African American S&E doctoral recipients. HBCUS共同为为服务不足的社区提供和增加教育机会的共同使命，并在国家为多元化STEM劳动力多样化的努力做出贡献方面有利。了解HBCUS的参与和毕业的低收入STEM学生对于未来的STEM劳动力至关重要。本研究中心基础设施将包括精心策划的虚拟学习和共享机会，能力建设和技术援助网络研讨会以及传播活动。此外，该枢纽将使用保留理论作为框架，并对开始或过渡到HBCUS的高等教育的国内低收入STEM学生进行严格的主要研究。项目目标是：1）进行强大而创新的研究，以了解HBCUS低收入学生矩阵并在STEM中进入成功职业的最佳途径； 2）为HBCU研究人员提供能力建设，技术支持和战略联盟，以促进我们对低收入STEM学生成功途径的集体理解；和3）传播有关低收入学生在HBCUS矩阵的最佳途径的研究结果，并在STEM中进入学术界，政府，非营利组织和行业的成功职业。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来审查Criteria的评估来通过评估来获得的支持。