Project Grant P031C210146

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation under CFDA Program 47.076 - STEM Education, aims to establish practices to improve the retention of Black, Indigenous, and Latine (BIL) STEM majors during the critical transition from beginning to advanced coursework. The project will employ interventions, including courses, peer mentoring, and professional development, in which students explore positionality - a reflective process of evaluating how one's values, views, social...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $221,003 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to conduct research on student interactions in small groups within belonging-oriented undergraduate mathematics classrooms that employ active learning approaches. The project aims to explore the experiences of students from non-dominant identity groups and their instructors during these group activities, analyzing their interactions,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $261,523 to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to conduct a 5-year research project exploring student interactions and participation in small groups within belonging-oriented undergraduate mathematics classrooms. The project aims to advance foundational knowledge on the relationship between active learning approaches and equitable, inclusive learning environments, particularly for...

The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded a $1,400,294 project grant to Allegheny College to support the program "Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math: Strengthening Belongingness through Targeted Academic and Professional Mentoring." The five-year project, which runs from January 2022 through December 2027, aims to provide mentoring services to strengthen belongingness and inclusion among underrepresented...

This $394,696 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to enhance students' sense of belonging through interactive online interventions (IOIs). The University of Cincinnati will lead this 3-year project to develop four 15-minute IOIs designed to promote a stronger sense of belonging among students in introductory physics courses, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds. The research plan will evaluate the...

This $375,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the "Circle of Champions" initiative at Gavilan Joint Community College District, a Hispanic Serving Institution in California. The project aims to close the academic completion gap for Latina/o STEM students by leveraging their social capital and community cultural wealth. Key activities include implementing the Circle of Champions framework to organize...

The National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program has awarded a $499,989 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to implement the "HSI IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION PROJECT: INTEGRATED NETWORKING, SCHOLARSHIP, AND PEER MENTORING OF FRESHMEN ENGINEERS FOR INCREASED ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND GRADUATION RATES." This 5-year project aims to provide academic and social support to UCSB engineering and computer science freshmen with "effectors...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education Program (CFDA 47.076) award of $192,194 provides funding to Texas Tech University System to build and manage a research network focused on investigating factors that influence the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students in STEM fields. The key products and services delivered through this 5-year project include: Conducting research through a network of rural-serving institutions to gather and analyze data on the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,219,872 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Southern Methodist University (SMU) to conduct the "Amplifying Diverse Voices in STEM Education" (ADVISE) project. The overarching goal of this 5-year collaborative project is to better understand and compare the individual- and group-level psychological and sociological processes, such as student belonging, stereotype threat, classroom climate, and instructor...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $280,806 will fund Vanderbilt University to deliver products and services aimed at improving equity in STEM education through 2026. Under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), which supports development and implementation of promising STEM education practices, the university will pursue three specific aims. The first is to assess impacts of incorporating Learning Assistants on sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and identity across...