Preparing Central Oregon Community College Students for Careers in Information Systems

俄勒冈中部社区学院学生为信息系统职业做好准备

• 批准号: 2220953
• 负责人: Patrick Kennelly
• 金额: $ 74.98万
• 依托单位: Central Oregon Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2028-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2220953&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Central; Oregon; Community; College

This project 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 at Central Oregon Community College. Over its six-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 15 unique full- or part-time students pursuing an associate degree in Computer Information Systems (CIS) or Geographic Information Systems (GIS). First-year students will receive up to three years of scholarships. This project focuses on developing both technological and soft skills during the degree programs. Technological learning will be enhanced with focused mentoring from faculty and peers as well as cohort building beginning with a first-year course sequence. Soft career skills relate to communication and collaboration and will be enhanced using career counselors and workshops with local employers. As a result of project activities, the project will increase the number of students graduating in these fields and entering the information technology (IT) workforce who are low-income and from groups currently underrepresented in their pursuit of careers in IT. Additionally, the project will investigate best practices for helping academically talented students from these groups to succeed in college and transition to the workforce.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The main objective of the project is to help low-income students complete their associates degrees in either CIS or GIS and move on to a career in Information Systems. This project will enhance hard technological skills while also building soft skills, which were identified as commonly missing skills for recent graduates by the the institution's CIS employer Advisory Board. The project’s main research question for evaluation will be whether filling these skill gaps can improve college retention and graduation and increase the number of graduates qualified for employment in the Information Systems industry. The project will target hard and soft skill gaps with individualized faculty and peer mentoring, student cohorts, a first-year course sequence, career counseling sessions, and workshops with professionals from the industry. Project evaluation takes an applied social science research approach that will: use data to improve decision making, determine if the project has met its objectives, measure the project’s impact, and disseminate the results. The results will be disseminated at the college, regional, and national levels and will help fill the knowledge gap on how building soft skills in community college students can lead to increased academic performance and job placement in the Information Systems industry. 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.

该项目将在六年内支持有经济需求的优秀、低收入学生在俄勒冈中央社区学院的保留和毕业，从而满足国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。在此期间，该项目将为攻读计算机信息系统 (CIS) 或地理信息系统 (GIS) 副学士学位的 15 名独特的全日制或非全日制学生提供奖学金，一年级学生将获得长达三年的奖学金。项目重点开发学位课程期间的技术学习和软技能都将通过教师和同行的集中指导以及从第一年的与沟通和协作相关的软职业技能开始的队列建设得到加强。项目活动的结果是，该项目将增加在这些领域毕业并进入信息技术 (IT) 劳动力市场的学生人数，这些学生来自低收入群体和目前在职业生涯中代表性不足的群体。此外，该项目将最好进行调查。帮助这些群体中具有学术才华的学生在大学取得成功并过渡到劳动力市场的实践。该项目的总体目标是提高具有经济需求的低收入、成绩优异的本科生的 STEM 学位完成率。该项目旨在帮助低收入学生完成 CIS 或 GIS 的副学士学位，并继续从事信息系统职业。该项目将增强硬技术技能，同时培养软技能，这些技能被认为是应届毕业生普遍缺乏的技能。由该机构的 CIS 雇主咨询该项目评估的主要研究问题将是填补这些技能差距是否可以提高大学保留率和毕业率，并增加有资格在信息系统行业就业的毕业生数量。该项目将针对个性化教师和教师的硬技能和软技能差距。同行指导、学生群体、第一年课程顺序、职业咨询课程以及与行业专业人士一起举办的研讨会项目评估采用应用社会科学研究方法，该方法将：使用数据来改进决策，确定项目是否满足要求。其目标，衡量项目的影响，以及传播结果。研究结果将在大学、地区和国家层面传播，并将有助于填补社区学院学生软技能如何提高信息系统行业的学业成绩和就业安置的知识空白。该项目由 NSF 的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金计划资助，旨在增加具有经济需求的低收入学术天才学生获得 STEM 领域学位的数量。干工作人员，并产生有关低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。