MCA: Mid-Career Advancement - Using STEM Interest Profiling to Build a STEM ecosystems for underrepresented students.

MCA：职业生涯中期发展 - 使用 STEM 兴趣分析为代表性不足的学生构建 STEM 生态系统。

• 批准号: 2308622
• 负责人: John Fife
• 金额: $ 29.5万
• 依托单位: Virginia Commonwealth University
• 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: 2023-05-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2308622&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MCA; Mid; Career; Advancement; Using

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program through cross-directorate Mid-Career Advancement solicitation NSF 21-516 supports scientists and engineers at the Associate Professor rank (or equivalent) to substantively enhance and advance their research program through synergistic and mutually beneficial partnerships, typically at an institution other than their home institution. The overall goal of this project is to enhance and advance the research agenda of the principal investigator (PI) through a mutually beneficial mentoring partnership that seeks to address the decrease in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) interest and attitudes of youth in the Tri-City area of Virginia (Petersburg, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights) by building a STEM ecosystem. By (re)-investing in mid-career investigators, NSF aims to enable and grow a more diverse scientific workforce at high academic ranks, who remain engaged and active in cutting-edge research.The objectives of the project are to: 1) apply cutting edge profiling analyses (Latent Profile Analysis) and Social Network Analysis, to investigate middle school age STEM efforts; 2) use asset mapping to identify potential STEM collaborators and stakeholders in the Tri City area, interested in, and committed to creating a comprehensive and robust learning ecosystem, and 3) assess the ecosystem’s health and effectiveness based on three variables: Productivity, Durability, and Resilience. These groundbreaking methodologies will enable the PI and collaborators to consider variability among groups of underserved middle school-aged youth; and will allow the investigator to examine the qualities in, and relationships between STEM collaborators and stakeholders in an ecosystem, and to fine-tune these in order to improve its efficacy and sustainability. This project will expand the notion of ecosystem approaches by advancing knowledge about national concerns regarding STEM literacy, equity, inclusion, and access, and will serve as a model to other researchers seeking to understand the role that STEM profiling can play in informing the creation, implementation, and sustainability of equitable STEM ecosystems.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.

历史悠久的黑人学院和本科课程通过跨领域中期培训促进解决方案NSF 21-5 16支持副教授Rank（或同等学历）的科学家，从而实质上增强了Andace Andace他们的研究PROUUM GH协同和相互利益的伙伴关系，通常是一个机构的伙伴关系除了他们的家庭机构以外，该项目的总体目标是通过互惠互利的指导合作伙伴关系来增强和推进主要研究人员（PI）的研究议程，该伙伴关系旨在解决科学，技术，工程和数学的减少（STEM）在弗吉尼亚州三城市（Hopewell和Colonial Heights）中，青年的兴趣和态度通过建立Acosystem。谁在尖端研究中保持参与并积极。评估生态系统的健康和有效性在三个变量上都低下：Y，耐用性和弹性方法。提高其对STEM素养，公平，包容性和获取的国家关注的效果和可持续性STEMS.Th奖通过使用Toundatual功绩和DER影响审查标准进行评估，反映了NSF值得支持的奖项。