HSI Planning Project: Undergraduate Institutions Developing Opportunities in STEM (UNIDOS)

HSI 规划项目：本科院校发展 STEM 机会 (UNIDOS)

• 批准号: 2317748
• 负责人: Kelly Trujillo
• 金额: $ 39.97万
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Community College
• 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: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2317748&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Planning; Project; Undergraduate; Institutions

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to broaden the participation of historically underrepresented populations centered around two proximate Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Santa Fe Community College and Northern New Mexico College. The Undergraduate Institutions Developing Opportunities in STEM (UNIDOS) project will build upon relationships with regional partners, from both the public and private sectors, to provide educational training opportunities for local youth in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). These activities are designed to embrace cultural values and traditions and honors the wealth of knowledge from Indigenous and Hispanic populations. Based upon an active and collaborative exploration of community needs and anticipated vocational gaps in the regional STEM workforce, partners will develop and modify STEM degree and certificate programs and address the holistic needs of matriculating students to promote student academic success and STEM career readiness.The UNIDOS model predicts that the significant challenges underrepresented students face are best addressed when entities that share common goals work together. To this end, the project will establish a STEM Advisory Council, composed of representatives from both the public and private STEM workforce, STEM education advocate groups, professionals, educators, and college administrators. Generating a collaborative relationship with valued community partners is expected to generate vocational opportunities for students, including internship experiences that will enhance the job readiness for underrepresented individuals entering the STEM workforce. Additionally, UNIDOS will provide educational training opportunities in STEM for local youth to stimulate interest in STEM education/careers, facilitate student matriculation into college, and promote STEM degree program participation/completion. Partnering institutions will engage with private entities to develop curricula for participating youth that introduces them to culturally relevant careers/research in science and enables students to develop a STEM identity that does not conflict with their cultural values and traditions. STEM faculty will play a major role in delivering the curricula, and together with professional development opportunities designed to identify and rectify inequitable teaching practices and mitigate language barriers, will generate a STEM learning atmosphere that is inclusive and celebrates students’ wealth of cultural knowledge. Through these efforts, enhanced diversity in STEM education will generate a workforce with a broad knowledge base, which can function to stimulate innovation fueled by collective experiences and an inclusive spirit of collaboration over competition. 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 项目旨在扩大历史上代表性不足的人群的参与，以两个邻近的西班牙裔服务机构 (HSIs)：圣达菲社区学院和北方新大学为中心。墨西哥学院本科机构发展 STEM 机会 (UNIDOS) 项目将建立在与公共和私营部门区域合作伙伴的关系基础上，为当地青年提供教育培训机会。科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 旨在拥抱文化价值观和传统，并基于对社区需求和预期职业差距的积极协作探索。在区域 STEM 劳动力中，合作伙伴将开发和修改 STEM 学位和证书课程，并满足入学学生的整体需求，以促进学生学业成功和 STEM 职业准备。UNIDOS 模型预测，当实体那为此，该项目将建立一个 STEM 咨询委员会，由来自公共和私人 STEM 劳动力、STEM 教育倡导团体、专业人士、教育工作者和大学管理人员的代表组成，与有价值的人员建立合作关系。社区合作伙伴预计将为学生创造职业机会，包括实习经验，以增强进入 STEM 劳动力队伍的代表性不足的个人的就业准备。此外，UNIDOS 将为当地青年提供 STEM 教育培训机会，以激发对 STEM 教育/职业的兴趣。方便学生入读大学，并促进 STEM 学位课程的参与/完成 合作机构将与私营实体合作，为参与的青少年开发课程，向他们介绍与文化相关的职业/科学研究，并使学生能够形成与文化不冲突的 STEM 身份。他们的文化价值观和传统将在提供课程方面发挥重要作用，并结合专业发展设计的机会来识别和纠正不公平的教学实践并减少语言障碍，从而营造一种 STEM 学习氛围。通过这些努力，STEM 教育的多样性将培养出一支拥有广泛知识基础的劳动力队伍，这些劳动力可以通过集体经验和包容性的竞争精神来激发创新。该计划旨在加强 HSI 本科生 STEM 教育和能力建设。HSI 计划支持的项目也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，并通过使用基金会的知识进行评估，被认为值得支持。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。