RAPID: STEM faculty support to address impacts from COVID-19 on Tribal Colleges and Universities Program institutions

RAPID：STEM 教职员工支持解决 COVID-19 对部落学院和大学项目机构的影响

• 批准号: 2217531
• 负责人: Christina Rush
• 金额: $ 16.69万
• 依托单位: Salish Kootenai College
• 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: 2022-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2217531&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; STEM; faculty; support; address

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricular offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities of their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. The sustainability of STEM instructional capacity gains is significantly enhanced by retaining the talent of credentialed STEM faculty. This project aligns directly with that goal.The COVID-19 pandemic caused major disruptions to institutions of higher education. For tribal colleges and universities, whose core operating funds are directly aligned with student enrollment, drops in enrollment equate to loss of funding. To mitigate against detrimental pandemic-related effects on STEM instructional capacity, this award will support the salary and professional development of one full-time STEM faculty member at Salish Kootenai College. This TCUP STEM Faculty award is intended to help maintain Salish Kootenai College’s STEM program as the college recovers from the deleterious impact of the pandemic.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.

部落学院和大学计划（TCUP）的目标是增加科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的指示和研究能力，这些指示和研究能力是为国家土著学生服务的高等教育机构。在这些机构扩大STEM课程产品，扩大了学生的机会，以寻求挑战，奖励STEM领域的职业，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供研究，并鼓励社区和世代相传的科学和数学教育。通过保留有资格的STEM教师的才能，STEM教学能力增长的可持续性可显着提高。该项目直接与该目标保持一致。 199年的大流行对高等教育机构造成了重大破坏。对于部落大学和大学的核心运营资金与学生入学直接保持一致的部落学院，入学率等于资金损失。为了减轻对STEM教学能力的有害大流行有关的影响，该奖项将支持Salish Kootenai学院一名全职STEM教师的薪水和专业发展。这项TCUP STEM教师奖旨在帮助维持Salish Kootenai College的STEM计划，因为该学院从大流行的有害影响中恢复过来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的审查标准来评估NSF的法定任务。