Closing Gaps and Driving Achievement: Intentional, Applied Academic Pathway Supports to Advance Success in STEM Career Development

缩小差距并推动成就：有意识的应用学术途径支持促进 STEM 职业发展的成功

• 批准号: 2221465
• 负责人: Lawrence Atkinson
• 金额: $ 74.97万
• 依托单位: Lorain County Community 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: 2022-10-15 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221465&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Closing; Gaps; Driving; Achievement; Intentional

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 Lorain County Community College. Over its six-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 60 unique full and part-time students pursuing associate degrees in Cyber and Information Security and Micro-Electrical Mechanical Systems. The program is designed to enhance the persistence and completion of academically qualified low-income students. Throughout the grant period, new and transferring students will be able to receive up to 3 years of scholarship support. Specific project activities include academic advising, cohort-based activities, engagement in career-focused networking events, and experiential credit-bearing learning opportunities. The project will measure the efficacy of these practices and identify areas for improvement to positively impact completion rates for talented students in STEM career pathways.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project hopes to achieve a retention rate for project participants of 80 percent; a two-year graduation or transfer rate of 75 percent; and improve persistence and completion rates in Cyber and Information Security and Micro-Electrical Mechanical Systems programs. Achieving these objectives will enrich the STEM workforce with students who can contribute to the American innovation economy. The project team at Lorain County Community College hypothesizes that aggregated and equitable support resources will have a statistically significant impact on degree attainment and job placement. Project evaluation will address several questions relevant to the STEM education community, including the extent to which comprehensive mentoring programs impact student recruitment into STEM pathways; how and to what extent cohorts ensure retention and completion; and how similar programs can enhance work-based and experiential learning experiences. Accumulated data will help identify best practices of the project, which can then be shared with the broader community for replication. The project team plans dissemination activities through multiple channels and partnerships, including networks such as the American Association of Community Colleges, Society of Women Engineers, Ohio Manufacturers' Association, Ohio TechNet, and multiple active partners in the Manufacturing USA network. 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.

该项目将通过支持在洛林县社区学院表现出的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业，这将促进对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求。在六年的持续时间内，该项目将为60名独特的全职学生提供奖学金，攻读网络和信息安全和微电动机械系统的副学士学位。该计划旨在增强学术合格的低收入学生的持久性和完成。在整个赠款期间，新的和转学的学生将能够获得最多3年的奖学金支持。特定的项目活动包括学术咨询，基于队列的活动，参与以职业为中心的网络活动以及经验性的信用学习机会。该项目将衡量这些实践的功效，并确定在STEM职业道路上有才华的学生的正面影响的领域。该项目的总体目标是增加具有经济需求的低收入，高位研究的本科生的STEM学位完成。该项目希望为80％的项目参与者实现保留率；两年毕业或转移率为75％；并提高网络和信息安全和微电动机械系统计划的持久性和完成率。实现这些目标将使可以为美国创新经济做出贡献的学生丰富STEM劳动力。洛林县社区学院的项目团队假设，汇总和公平的支持资源将对学位成就和工作安置产生统计学上的显着影响。项目评估将解决与STEM教育社区相关的几个问题，包括全面的指导计划影响学生招募STEM途径的程度；如何以及在多大程度上确保保留和完成；以及类似计划如何增强基于工作的和经验性的学习经验。累积数据将有助于确定项目的最佳实践，然后可以与更广泛的社区共享复制。该项目团队计划通过多种渠道和合作伙伴关系计划传播活动，包括美国社区学院协会，女工程师协会，俄亥俄州制造商协会，俄亥俄州Technet以及美国制造业网络中的多个活跃合作伙伴。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金资助，该计划旨在增加具有证明经济需求的低收入学术才华的学生的数量，他们在STEM领域获得学位。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，毕业和学术/职业途径增强知识。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审查标准通过评估来通过评估来获得支持的。