Project Grant P031A220124

This $205,534 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) aims to develop and test a new model for advancing racial equity within STEM departments at a minority-serving institution. The "Equity Departmental Action Team (EDAT)" model will draw from existing change programs to integrate theories from systems change, social justice, social psychology, and intergroup contact. The project will pilot the EDAT model at the University of Colorado...

This Project Grant award of $741,554 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a collaborative research project titled "A Student Asset-Based Approach to the Formation of Equitable Teams (SAFE TEAMS)". The goal is to identify and understand pedagogical strategies that promote equity in team experiences for Black and Latinx students in engineering and computer science classrooms. The research team, which includes undergraduate...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $349,999 to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to expand and enhance methodologies for obtaining deeper insights into factors affecting the engagement and persistence of STEM majors in higher education. The project consists of two key components: 1) a systematic literature review to characterize the existing research on undergraduate STEM student engagement,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Engineering Education and Centers provides $490,174 to Purdue University under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from September 2022 through August 2025. The funding will support research to develop and validate a new survey instrument to measure student engagement in team-based learning across academic disciplines, with a focus on identifying differences based on gender, race/ethnicity and other factors. Leveraging data...

This Project Grant award of $130,178 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports the development and pilot 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 University of Colorado Denver. The project aims to combine existing change models to produce the new EDAT approach, which will focus on shifting departmental cultures to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $380,430 Cooperative Agreement under its STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) for the "AIM for Equity" institutional transformation project. The project aims to address systemic causes of inequity for STEM faculty at WashU through institution-wide efforts, including: Empowering department heads and school leaders to develop and implement evidence-based faculty policies and practices to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program award in the amount of $499,969 supports the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in implementing and evaluating a comprehensive program called "Enhancing and Expanding Second-Year Experience (EESYE)" for engineering and computer science students. The project aims to reduce attrition and improve retention and graduation rates, particularly among Hispanic and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Advance Catalyst Program grant award of $290,974 to The Chicago School of Professional Psychology will support an institutional self-assessment to identify organizational inequities in culture and policy that impact STEM faculty outcomes. The project will result in a five-year STEM faculty equity strategic plan tailored to the institution's context and data. This work aims to examine how institutional factors interact to affect diverse STEM faculty, with...

This Project Grant award of $341,691, titled "Project STRIDE: Sustaining Teachers through Responsiveness, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity," was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence-Teacher Preparation and Development program (CFDA 84.428). The project, awarded to Seattle University, aims to strengthen teacher preparation pipelines in underserved educational environments by developing,...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $292,428 to Purdue University to investigate barriers faced by Black students in engineering technology programs and careers. The research will center Black ET students' experiences and examine factors influencing their choice of major through focus groups, surveys, and analysis of two institutions' engineering and ET programs. It aims to identify systemic barriers limiting access...