Project Grant P031A210116

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) provides $100,000 to WestEd, a nonprofit research and development agency, to establish an equity-focused, inclusive research-practice partnership between Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC), and WestEd. The primary goals of this partnership are to develop and implement mathematics dual enrollment courses in MPS high schools that address disparities in math achievement,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports the development and testing of a new "Equity Departmental Action Team (EDAT)" model to drive racial equity-focused change within STEM departments at a minority-serving institution. The $331,572 project will take place over 19 months, starting in September 2024. It aims to integrate existing change models to produce the new EDAT approach, which focuses on shifting...

This $1,130,584 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 STEM Education) aims to develop and test a comprehensive, evidence-based strategy to identify and cultivate the readiness of predominantly white institutions (PWIs) and new minority-serving institutions (MSIs) to address systemic racial inequities in STEM education. The "Determining Equity Readiness in Higher Education: Empowering Student Success in STEM Education" project will guide a...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $342,108 to Arizona State University (ASU) aims to empower Hispanic, Latinx/e/a/o, and Xicanx/e/a/o (HLX+) undergraduate engineering students to recognize and disrupt hegemonic engineering education structures. The project will use a "Path to Conocimiento" framework to help these students explore their cultural, community, racial, and ethnic (CCORE) values and navigate conflicts between those values...

This Project Grant award of $564,214 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support the development and testing of the Equity Departmental Action Team (EDAT) model of racial equity-focused change in STEM departments at a minority-serving institution, the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver). The project aims to create a new model for driving sustainable racial equity change within STEM departments by integrating existing change...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, will develop and pilot the Equity Departmental Action Team (EDAT) model to spur racial equity-focused change in STEM departments at a minority-serving institution. The $130,178 award to Colorado State University will fund two major phases: 1) development of the EDAT model, which integrates theories from systems change, social justice, and intergroup contact, and 2) pilot implementation...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $219,315 to The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to create a collaborative research alliance between four Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Texas. The primary objectives are to: 1) conduct research focused on creating opportunities across demographic and socio-economic groups, 2) establish physical and virtual research lab spaces with...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) provides $679,917 to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop a culturally responsive community of practice to build equitable pathways to graduate STEM education. The project aims to: Conduct four trainings in culturally relevant pedagogy for STEM faculty and implement an online mentor training program to develop a culturally responsive community of practice. This community will allow...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) Program award of $2,992,878 to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) will create a new graduate certificate program in Design Equity. The project aims to train 200 graduate students over 4 years, including 34 M.S. and 7 Ph.D. students who will receive NRT stipends, to become "equity design influencers." The transdisciplinary program will deliver training in equity-centered design and decision-making for policies,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to support faculty and student learning of equity-minded and student-centered pedagogy through iterative curricular co-design. The $399,896 award to the CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, a non-profit Hispanic-Serving Institution, will implement a professional development model that provides STEM faculty the knowledge, time, and support to design instructional innovations...