HSI Planning Project: CSUN START

恒生指数规划项目：CSUN START

• 批准号: 2247964
• 负责人: Melanie Bocanegra
• 金额: $ 39.98万
• 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: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247964&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Planning; Project; CSUN; START

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to enhance the quality of first-year experiences among STEM transfer students by removing cultural and institutional barriers. Two-year institutions are key entry points to higher education for historically underrepresented and underserved groups such as Latinx, low-income, and first-generation college students, particularly in transferring to Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) like California State University, Northridge (CSUN) where over half of incoming students are first-time transfers. However, the majority of transfer students who go on to a 4-year institution will experience “cultural mismatch” or “transfer shock” whereby a shift in cultural norms and values aligned with middle-class contexts will lead to reduced academic belonging, performance and persistence, particularly for students in STEM majors. There is an urgent need to identify practices that invite, retain, and support historically underrepresented and underserved STEM transfer students undergoing institutional and cultural transition. If unaddressed, undergraduate research and STEM workforce participation will remain low among the representative yet often overlooked historically underrepresented and underserved STEM transfer student population.The current project aims to (1) redevelop existing STEM workshops into bridging summer, first-year transfer experience lab courses (UNIV 396) and (2) test the effectiveness of culturally responsive lab course modifications relative to control courses in improving student science outcomes and persistence. Results of this project will aid HSIs in identifying customizable program elements best suited for aiding first-year transfer students in their transition to university. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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“改善本科 STEM 教育：西班牙裔服务机构”（HSI 计划）的支持下，该轨道 1 项目旨在通过消除文化和制度障碍来提高 STEM 转学生的第一年体验质量。两年制机构是关键的入口。指出高等教育针对的是历史上代表性不足和服务不足的群体，如拉丁裔、低收入群体和第一代大学生，特别是转学到加州州立大学北岭分校 (CSUN) 等拉美裔服务机构 (HSI)，其中一半以上然而，大多数进入四年制院校的转学生都会经历“文化不匹配”或“转学冲击”，即文化规范和价值观的转变与中层教育保持一致。如果不加以解决，班级环境将导致学术归属感、表现和持久性下降，特别是对于 STEM 专业的学生来说，迫切需要确定邀请、保留和支持历史上代表性不足和服务不足的 STEM 转学生的做法。 ，本科生研究和STEM 劳动力参与度在具有代表性的人群中仍然较低，但往往被忽视，历史上代表性不足且服务不足的 STEM 转学生群体。当前项目的目标是 (1) 将现有的 STEM 研讨会重新开发为衔接夏季、第一年转学经验实验室课程 (UNIV 396) 和 ( 2) 测试相对于控制课程的文化响应实验课程修改在提高学生科学成果和毅力方面的有效性。该项目的结果将帮助 HSI 确定最适合帮助一年级转学生的可定制项目元素。 HSI 计划旨在加强本科生 STEM 教育并培养 HSI 的能力。HSI 计划支持的项目还将产生有关如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得支持。通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。