This $800,000 NSF STEM Education Program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant awarded to the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Inc. in August 2024 aims to strengthen STEM learning and improve student retention and graduation rates for low-income, first-generation, female, and other high-need/disadvantaged students at the university's Ponce and Guayama campuses.
The key activities supported by the grant include redesigning gateway/bottleneck STEM courses by implementing multidisciplinary course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) in a collaborative setting, engaging students in multidisciplinary research experiences combined with peer mentoring and other academic support mechanisms, and evaluating the impacts on student success metrics such as sense of belonging, self-efficacy, persistence, and STEM identity. The project also plans to disseminate its findings to reform STEM learning environments at other Hispanic-serving institutions in Puerto Rico and across the nation.
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