Ensuring STEM Student Success Through an Integrative Support Program

通过综合支持计划确保 STEM 学生取得成功

• 批准号: 2322617
• 负责人: Andrea Ward
• 金额: $ 249.98万
• 依托单位: Adelphi 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: 2023-11-01 至 2029-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2322617&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ensuring; STEM; Student; Success; Through

This 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 Adelphi University (AU). As a comprehensive university in the NY metropolitan area, Adelphi is well-situated in a geographic region with a growing need for a highly educated STEM workforce. The Adelphi scholars will major in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, mathematics, or physics and will be awarded financial support for the four years of their undergraduate education. Over the 6 years of the project, the project will support twenty-five (25) unique scholars with financial support as well as academic and co-curricular support activities to increase the retention, success, and graduation of these students. Through a holistic approach, students will develop the necessary skills to be successful in the workforce. The work of this project will include with an innovative recruitment strategy including partnerships at several local high schools that have a large proportion of students who qualify for free lunch. Once at Adelphi, students will benefit from a multi-tiered, collaborative mentoring network model including peer, alumni, and faculty mentors. Students will develop skills important for the STEM workforce through cohort activities including an interdisciplinary project to study environmental sustainability issues established by AU. Students will also acquire key research skills through two summer research fellowships and attendance at scientific conferences. Upon graduation, students will be prepared to enter either graduate programs or the local STEM workforce. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. To accomplish this, the project will pursue several additional goals. A first goal is to recruit a diverse set of 25 STEM scholars in 2 cohorts and to implement a suite of evidence-based and innovative academic and co-curricular activities to support, retain, and graduate these scholars. Second is to contribute to the knowledge base through project evaluation by employing mixed-methods techniques to analyze, provide formative feedback, and gain insights into the effectiveness of the project's individual and collective support activities for retention, engagement, success, and graduation of students. Third is to place these students upon graduation into the STEM workforce or STEM graduate programs. To help achieve these goals, the project will partnerships with several local high schools and local STEM employers including Brookhaven National Labs, ThorLabs, and Photonix. Within the Adelphi University community, this project will partner with University's mentoring and academic coaching programs. A fourth goal is to develop a sustainable and replicable national model, and to disseminate results from this model, to inform other higher-education professionals and institutions seeking to support talented, low-income STEM students. The findings and outcomes of this work will be disseminated regionally through a virtual conference on supporting STEM students and nationally through presentations at conferences and publications in peer-reviewed journals. 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.

该项目将通过支持受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求，通过支持在阿德尔菲大学（AU）表现出具有财务需求的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业。作为纽约都会区的一所综合大学，阿德尔菲（Adelphi）位于一个地理区域中，对受过高等教育的STEM劳动力的需求越来越大。阿德菲学者将主修生物学，生物化学，化学，计算机科学，环境科学，数学或物理学，并将为其四年的本科教育获得财政支持。在该项目的6年中，该项目将支持25（25）个独特的学者，并提供财务支持以及学术和课外支持活动，以增加这些学生的保留，成功和毕业。通过整体方法，学生将发展必要的技能，以在劳动力中取得成功。该项目的工作将包括创新的招聘策略，包括在几所当地高中的合作伙伴关系，这些伙伴关系有很大比例的学生可以免费获得午餐。到达阿德菲（Adelphi）后，学生将受益于包括同伴，校友和教职员工的多层协作心理网络模型。学生将通过队列活动发展对STEM劳动力重要的技能，包括研究AU建立的环境可持续性问题的跨学科项目。学生还将通过两项夏季研究奖学金和参加科学会议获得关键的研究技能。毕业后，学生将准备进入研究生课程或当地的STEM劳动力。该项目的总体目标是增加茎学位的完成，以证明财务需求，使低收入，高成就的大学生的本科生完成。为此，该项目将实现几个其他目标。第一个目标是在2个队列中招募一组25个STEM学者的潜水员，并实施一套循证和创新的学术和课外活动，以支持，保留和毕业这些学者。其次是通过项目评估来为知识库做出贡献，通过采用混合方法来分析，提供形成性的反馈，并了解对项目个人和集体支持活动的有效性，以保留，参与，成功和毕业生。第三是将这些学生毕业后进入STEM劳动力或STEM研究生课程。为了帮助实现这些目标，该项目将与包括布鲁克黑文国家实验室，Thorlabs和Photonix在内的几所当地高中和当地的STEM员工建立合作伙伴关系。在阿德菲大学社区中，该项目将与大学的心理和学术教练计划合作。第四个目标是开发可持续和可复制的国家模型，并传播该模型的结果，以告知其他高等教育的专业人士和寻求支持有才华的低收入STEM学生的机构。这项工作的发现和结果将通过在支持STEM学生和全国范围内通过同行评审期刊的会议和出版物的演讲进行的虚拟会议进行区域传播。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金提供资金，该计划旨在增加具有在STEM领域获得学位的经济需求的低收入才华横溢的学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来的STEM工人的教育，并为低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，学术/职业途径提供知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来获得的支持。