Extending the Florida Pathways 2 Success Partnership to Increase Engagement, Retention, and Success of Low-income Undergraduate and Graduate Students

扩展佛罗里达途径 2 成功合作伙伴关系，以提高低收入本科生和研究生的参与度、保留率和成功率

• 批准号: 2322545
• 负责人: Jennifer Drew
• 金额: $ 499.85万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2029-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2322545&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Extending; Florida; Pathways; Success; Partnership

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 Miami Dade College (MDC), an HSI that primarily awards two-year A.A. degrees, and the University of Florida (UF), a comprehensive research university. Over its five-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 200 unique students: pre-transfer A.A. life sciences students at MDC; post-transfer B.S. Microbiology and Cell Science (MCS) majors at UF; or students who are seeking an M.S. in MCS at UF. Although the individual timelines may vary, students who enroll full-time will usually receive scholarships of up to 2 years at each level (i.e., while pursuing associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees). Miami Dade College enrolls a large diverse population of undergraduates, and transfer students are more likely to be from groups historically underrepresented in STEM, including women, veterans, and first-generation college students. Consequently, this project has the potential to significantly broaden participation in the STEM enterprise and to identify key factors that affect retention and success of low-income transfer students. This project will also increase access by offering online options for scholars pursuing B.S. and M.S. degrees through MCS. Online education further extends opportunities to nontraditional students including adult learners, student parents, and individuals from underserved areas. By leveraging a statewide network of research facilities and existing online course-based undergraduate research experiences, both in-person and online scholars will be able to participate in faculty-mentored undergraduate research. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. This project is informed by the lessons learned from a prior S-STEM project at MDC and UF that has awarded over 400 scholarships to students pursuing associate and bachelor's degrees. Project research will use focus groups, student surveys, institutional data, and existing S-STEM data from 2018 to investigate how changes to the FAFSA in 2024 impact eligibility and awards amounts for scholarship recipients. The research plan will also explore the longer-term impacts of scholarships on transfer, graduation, and persistence in STEM and identify barriers and successful interventions in the A.A. to B.S. transfer process. The project will be assessed by a qualified independent evaluator to ensure progress toward project goals and identify elements of the project that most effectively drive student success. Results of this project will be made available through presentations at STEM education conferences, informational webinars, 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.

该项目将支持迈阿密戴德学院 (MDC) 保留和毕业有经济需要的成绩优异、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。MDC 是一所 HSI，佛罗里达大学 (UF) 是一所综合性研究型大学，主要授予两年制的 A.A. 学位，该项目将在五年内为 200 名独特的学生提供奖学金：预转 A.A. 生活。 MDC 的理科学生；转入佛罗里达大学微生物学和细胞科学 (MCS) 专业的学生；或者正在佛罗里达大学攻读 MCS 硕士学位的学生，但全日制入学的学生通常会获得以下奖学金：每个级别最长为 2 年（即，在攻读副学士学位、学士和硕士学位时）迈阿密戴德学院招收大量不同的本科生，转学生更有可能这样做。该项目有可能显着扩大对 STEM 企业的参与，并确定影响低收入转移保留和成功的关键因素。该项目还将通过 MCS 为攻读学士和硕士学位的学者提供在线选择，进一步为非传统学生（包括成人学习者、学生家长和来自服务不足地区的个人）提供机会。设施以及现有基于在线课程的本科生研究经验，现场学者和在线学者都将能够参与教师指导的本科生研究。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入、高成就本科生的 STEM 学位完成率。该项目借鉴了 MDC 和 UF 之前的 S-STEM 项目的经验教训，该项目已向攻读副学士学位和学士学位的学生提供了 400 多个奖学金。项目研究将使用焦点小组、学生调查和机构数据。 ，以及现有的该研究计划还将利用 2018 年的 S-STEM 数据来调查 2024 年 FAFSA 的变化如何影响奖学金获得者的资格和奖学金金额。 A.A. 到 B.S. 转学过程的成功干预将由合格的独立评估员进行评估，以确保项目目标的进展，并确定最有效推动学生成功的项目要素。该项目由 NSF 科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量。它还旨在改善未来 STEM 工作者的教育，并提供有关低收入学生的学业成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。授予 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估反映使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得支持。