NSF INCLUDES Collaborative Change Consortia: Association of Collaborative Communities Ensuring Equity in Youth STEM+C Success (ACCEYSS)

NSF 包括协作变革联盟：确保青少年 STEM C 成功平等的协作社区协会 (ACCEYSS)

• 批准号: 2304197
• 负责人: Shetay Ashford-Hanserd
• 金额: $ 491.22万
• 依托单位: Texas State University - San Marcos
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2028-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2304197&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Collaborative; Change; Consortia

During the Civil Rights Era, faith-based and grassroots organizations served as functional centers and community hubs intervening in social and political matters to assure and protect the civil rights of people of color. Since institutionalized racism and inequitable access to quality education still exists among historically underrepresented minorities (HURM) and women, faith-based and grassroots organizations can play a significant role in improving educational equity (access, participation, outcomes) for youth and girls of color in K-16 STEM and computing (STEM+C) education. The Association of Collaborative Communities ensuring Equity in Youth STEM+C Success (ACCEYSS) is an NSF INCLUDES Collaborative Change Consortia project led by Texas State University (TXST) in collaboration with the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI). The consortium leverages NBCI’s national network of 150,000 faith-based institutions and its population of 6 million children to broaden participation of youth and girls of color in underserved communities in two states, Texas and Florida. Both are considered U.S. mega states as they educate nearly 15% of all historically marginalized students enrolled in U.S. public schools and have the highest percentages of low-income and diverse learners in the nation. ACCEYSS is well positioned to improve low-income Black and Hispanic (BH) youth and girls’ access and participation in the K-12 STEM+C education pipeline while in middle school (grades 6-8) and entry into postsecondary STEM+C degree programs in Texas and Florida. This work informs best practice interventions to increase HURM access, and participation in rigorous course-taking in middle school, high school, and postsecondary STEM+C degree programs across the U.S. This project builds upon the NSF INCLUDES DDLP: ACCEYSS - Association of Collaborative Communities Equipping Youth for STEM Success (1764404) and NSF CAREER: Effects of Community Cultural Wealth on Black and Hispanic Women in the P-20 Computing Workforce Pipeline in Texas (2046079). ACCEYSS is grounded in evidence that faith-based institutions are critical assets for broadening participation of youth and girls of color. Since the Civil Rights Era, faith-based institutions have been uniquely poised to motivate and galvanize their congregations and constituents to drive action towards economic and social change in communities of color. Community-engaged institutions of higher education, such as TXST, have also served as conduits of change since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Most notably, TXST alumnus President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the hallmark Higher Education Act of 1965 at his alma mater, which increased educational access for low-income students of color. ACCYESS adapts and integrates these models to advance STEM diversity. ACCYESS leverages faith-based institutions as historically significant structures to drive collaborative systems change in the U.S. K-16 STEM+C education pipeline. Complementing work traditionally done in formal educational settings, the new understandings gained through ACCYESS’ research will inform on the social processes through which BH experience and persist in STEM+C contexts and the role that modern religious entities can play in STEM+C education for BH youth.This project is funded by NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative, which seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to advance and sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM at scale.  This award is also supported by the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) program, which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs.  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.

在民权时代，基于信仰的基层组织是介入社会和政治事务的功能中心和社区中心，以确保和保护有色人种的公民权利。由于将种族主义的种族主义和不平等的获得优质教育的机会在历史上不足的少数民族（HURM）和妇女中仍然存在，因此基于信仰的基础和基层组织可以在改善K-16 STEM和计算（STEM+C）教育中有色青年和有色人种的青年教育公平（访问，参与，参与，结果）中发挥重要作用。合作社区协会确保青年型茎+C成功（ACCEYSS）的公平性是NSF，其中包括由德克萨斯州立大学（TXST）与国家黑人教会倡议（NBCI）合作领导的合作变革联盟项目。该财团利用NBCI的国家网络拥有15万个基于信仰的机构及其600万儿童的人口，以扩大在两个州，得克萨斯州和佛罗里达州服务不足的社区中有色人种和女孩的参与。两者都被认为是美国大型州，因为他们在所有历史边缘化的学生中教育了几乎15％的美国公立学校，并且在全国低收入和多样化的学习者中的百分比最高。 Acceyss在中学期间（6 - 8年级）（6 - 8年级）和德克萨斯州和佛罗里达州的学位后+C学位课程时，ACCEYSS可以改善低收入黑人和西班牙裔黑人和西班牙裔（BH）青年和女孩的访问和参与。 This work information best practice interventions to increase HURM access, and participation in rigorous course-taking in middle school, high school, and postsecondary STEM+C degree programs across the U.S. This project builds upon the NSF INCLUDES DDLP: ACCEYSS - Association of Collaborative Communities Equipping Youth for STEM Success (1764404) and NSF CAREER: Effects of Community Cultural Wealth on Black and Hispanic Women in the P-20 Computing Workforce Pipeline in德克萨斯州（2046079）。 Acceyss基于证据表明，基于信仰的机构是扩大有色青年和女孩参与的关键资产。自公民权利时代以来，基于信仰的机构一直被毒死，以激励和激励他们的会众，并构成朝着有色社区的经济和社会变革采取行动。自1964年《民权法》以来，由社区参与的高等教育机构（例如TXST）也一直是变革的渠道。最值得注意的是，TXST校友总裁Lyndon B. Johnson在他的母校签署了1965年的Hallmark高等教育法案，该法案增加了低收入有色学生的教育访问。 Accyess适应并整合了这些模型以提高茎多样性。 Accyess利用基于信仰的机构作为历史上重要的结构来推动美国K-16 STEM+C教育管道的合作系统变化。 Complementing work traditionally done in formal education settings, the new understandings gained through ACCYESS’ research will inform on the social processes through which BH experience and persist in STEM+C contexts and the role that modern religious entities can play in STEM+C education for BH youth.This project is funded by NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative, which旨在激励和加速协作基础设施建设以提高促进，这一奖项也得到了改善的本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）计划，该计划旨在增强本科生的STEM教育和HSIS的建立能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。