Implementation Project: Transforming STEM Education at the University of the District of Columbia by Establishing a General Science Degree

实施项目：通过设立普通科学学位来改变哥伦比亚特区大学的 STEM 教育

• 批准号: 2306334
• 负责人: Lawrence Potter
• 金额: $ 222.5万
• 依托单位: University of the District of Columbia
• 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: 2023-07-15 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2306334&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Project; Transforming; STEM; Education

Implementation Projects in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provide support to design, implement, study, and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This project at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), a public, urban, land-grant HBCU, focuses on developing a General Science Baccalaureate (GSB) degree with supporting activities aimed at retaining students. This degree seeks to allow flexibility in preparing undergraduate students for the job market and graduate school in many specialized science, technology, and engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, including STEM teacher preparation. The GSB degree seeks to provide students an opportunity to explore and take advantage of the diverse course offerings across UDC’s College of Arts and Sciences, College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability, and Environmental Sciences, and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.The project's overall goal is to increase the number of students from historically marginalized groups pursuing science careers. The objectives are to (1) create and implement a General Science Baccalaureate degree, (2) develop and execute a dedicated recruitment and enrollment program for the GSB degree, (3) offer a comprehensive enrichment program and wrap-around activities, including student research, aimed at retention of STEM majors, and (4) conduct an education research study on the impacts of the project. The correlational mixed-method research study is designed to show if a GSB degree program that implements supplemental learning experiences and provides research opportunities will change a student's persistence and perceptions and identity as a STEM major and investigate the effects. The project is guided by an internal steering committee and an external advisory board, as well as by the process of formative evaluation.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.

在黑人学院和大学中的工具 - 少女级教育计划（HBCU -UP），研究和评估compriental会导致他们通过Proventeninin Ciente，技术，工程和数学（STEM）和研究中的研究。哥伦比亚特区（UDC），一家公共赠款的HBCU OCUS，用于开发一般科学学士学位（GSB）学位，旨在保留学生的支持活动。准备。 BaccalaureateDegree执行了GSB学位的专门招聘和入学计划，（3）提供一项委员会富集计划和周围的活动，包括STEM专业的学生，​​以及（4）对T. CORELACIATIATIONT的影响进行教育研究混合方法研究旨在证明GSB学位的进步是否供应并提供研究机会，将改变学生的持久性，看法和身份作为STEM专业，并研究该项目的效果。外部顾问委员会以及形成性评估的过程。该奖项反映了使用Toundation的知识分子CTS审查标准的NSF'Stuend值得进行的Suthy评估。