Establishing an Inter-institutional San Fernando Valley Collaborative to Improve STEM Transfer Student Support, Retention, and Graduation

建立圣费尔南多谷机构间合作，以改善 STEM 转学生的支持、保留和毕业

• 批准号: 2322433
• 负责人: Shu-Sha Guan
• 金额: $ 10万
• 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: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2322433&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Establishing; Inter; institutional; San; Fernando

This planning 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 California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and three regional community colleges in the San Fernando Valley (SFV), Los Angeles Mission College, Los Angeles Pierce College, and Los Angeles Valley College. All four institutions are Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). At CSUN, 56% of undergraduate students are Pell Grant recipients and over 50% of incoming students transferred from a community college. The collaborative team will determine strategic partnerships, barriers to student success, and equity-minded initiatives to support low-income, historically underserved college students during a critical period in the transfer from community college to 4-year institution. This project will advance knowledge in enhancing infrastructure for STEM research and education between 2-year and 4-year institutions of higher education in the SFV, home to over a third of the Latinx population in Los Angeles. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Objectives include building a leadership team of stakeholders across the SFV to broaden pathways to STEM for low-income, historically underserved students. The team will assess needs and barriers to STEM transfer, retention, and graduation. Ultimately, the team will develop a future Track 3 S-STEM proposal with equity-minded strategies and rigorous evaluation plan. Students experience financial and sociocultural barriers in relocating from a community college to 4-year institution having to adapt to new expectations and financial needs. Transfer students make up the majority of incoming students at CSUN and this transfer shock is reflected in STEM academic performance and persistence in complex ways that bear disentangling. The knowledge transfer proposed between interdisciplinary and inter-institutional partners in the current project will facilitate the development of targeted tools and approaches to support community college and 4-year undergraduate students alike. 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.

该规划项目将通过支持加州州立大学北岭分校 (CSUN) 和加州州立大学北岭分校 (CSUN) 保留和毕业那些表现出经济需求的成绩优异、低收入的学生，从而满足国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。圣费尔南多谷 (SFV) 的三所地区社区学院、洛杉矶使命学院 (Los Angeles Mission College)、洛杉矶皮尔斯学院 (Los Angeles Pierce College) 和洛杉矶谷学院 (Los Angeles Valley College) 这四所院校均为西班牙裔服务机构 (HSI)，占 CSUN 的 56%。本科生是佩尔助学金的获得者，超过 50% 的新生是从社区大学转来的。合作团队将确定战略合作伙伴关系、学生成功的障碍以及注重公平的举措，以在关键时期支持低收入、历史上服务不足的大学生。该项目将在 SFV 的 2 年制和 4 年制高等教育机构之间提升 STEM 研究和教育基础设施的知识，SFV 拥有超过三分之一的拉丁裔人口。洛杉矶的人口。该项目的总体目标是提高具有经济需求的低收入、成绩优异的本科生完成 STEM 学位的目标，包括在 SFV 中建立一个由利益相关者组成的领导团队，为低收入、历史上服务不足的学生拓宽 STEM 的途径。该团队将评估 STEM 转学、保留和毕业的需求和障碍，最终，该团队将制定未来的第三轨 S-STEM 提案，其中包括公平战略和严格的评估计划。社区学院四年制院校必须适应新的期望和财务需求，转学生占 CSUN 入学学生的大多数，这种转学冲击以复杂的方式反映在 STEM 的学术表现和持久性上，从而消除了跨学科之间的知识转移。当前项目中的机构间合作伙伴将促进有针对性的工具和方法的开发，以支持社区学院和四年制本科生。该项目由美国国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学项目奖学金资助。增加获得 STEM 领域学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来 STEM 工作者的教育，并产生有关学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术的知识。 /低收入学生的职业道路。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。