HSI Planning Project: CSUN START

恒生指数规划项目：CSUN START

• 批准号: 2247964
• 负责人: Melanie Bocanegra
• 金额: $ 39.98万
• 依托单位: The University Corporation, Northridge
• 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: 2023-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247964&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Planning; Project; CSUN; START

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to enhance the quality of first-year experiences among STEM transfer students by removing cultural and institutional barriers. Two-year institutions are key entry points to higher education for historically underrepresented and underserved groups such as Latinx, low-income, and first-generation college students, particularly in transferring to Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) like California State University, Northridge (CSUN) where over half of incoming students are first-time transfers. However, the majority of transfer students who go on to a 4-year institution will experience “cultural mismatch” or “transfer shock” whereby a shift in cultural norms and values aligned with middle-class contexts will lead to reduced academic belonging, performance and persistence, particularly for students in STEM majors. There is an urgent need to identify practices that invite, retain, and support historically underrepresented and underserved STEM transfer students undergoing institutional and cultural transition. If unaddressed, undergraduate research and STEM workforce participation will remain low among the representative yet often overlooked historically underrepresented and underserved STEM transfer student population.The current project aims to (1) redevelop existing STEM workshops into bridging summer, first-year transfer experience lab courses (UNIV 396) and (2) test the effectiveness of culturally responsive lab course modifications relative to control courses in improving student science outcomes and persistence. Results of this project will aid HSIs in identifying customizable program elements best suited for aiding first-year transfer students in their transition to university. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

在改善的Sergraduatem教育的支持下：STEM转移学生第一年的经验通过删除文化和稳定的障碍是对历史上不足的群体（例如Latinx）和第一代的高等教育的关键入口。大学尤其是转移到加利福尼亚州宇宙（CSUN）等西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）的时候“文化正常正常正常正常正常正常正常正常正常正常正常正常正常正常正常正常或与中产阶级阶级环境对齐的变化将导致学术归属减少。NVITE，保留和支持在历史上保留和支持在历史上均为服务不足的STEM转移学生。临床和文化过渡。响应式实验室的课程，以改善学生的pers pers pers pers reption。实现这些目标。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优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。