Portland, Oregon
June 23, 2024
June 23, 2024
July 12, 2024
Diversity and NSF Grantees Poster Session
https://peer.asee.org/46787
Dom Dal Bello is Professor of Engineering at Allan Hancock College (AHC), a California community college between UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. At AHC, he is Department Chair of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty Advisor of MESA (the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Program), and Principal/Co-Principal Investigator of several National Science Foundation projects (S-STEM, LSAMP, IUSE). In ASEE, he is chair of the Two-Year College Division, and Vice-Chair/Community Colleges of the Pacific Southwest Section. He received the Outstanding Teaching Award for the ASEE/PSW Section in 2022.
Eva Schiorring has almost two decades of experience in research and evaluation and special knowledge about STEM education in community colleges and four-year institutions. She presently serves as the external evaluator for four NSF-funded projects. The
Leila Jewell is a professor of Physics at Monterey Peninsula College. She is passionate about active learning and engaging diverse students in STEM.
Tom Rebold is the chair of Engineering at Monterey Peninsula College.
Joe Selzler is a Professor of Chemistry at Ventura College in Ventura, CA where is has taught for the last 20 years. He earned his MS in Chemistry from the University of California- Irvine where he specialized in environmental chemistry
The California Central Coast Community College Collaborative (C6-LSAMP, C6) is a National Science Foundation Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Bridge to the Baccalaureate grant project (NSF/LSAMP/B2B). C6-LSAMP is an innovative, cross-disciplinary, and multi-institutional collaboration developed by STEM leaders from eight California community colleges. The C6-LSAMP alliance leverages existing support structures and best practices across the member institutions to address inequities in STEM outcomes for a population of students comprised of the underserved: Hispanic/Latinx and other underrepresented minorities (URMs) in rural areas. Within the five counties served by the C6-LSAMP colleges, only 13% of Hispanic/Latinx residents 25 years or older hold a bachelor’s degree, compared to 47% of the five counties’ White, non-Hispanic population. At C6-LSAMP colleges, Hispanic/Latinx students transfer at a rate of 34% vs. 50% for White students. The success rates in key STEM gateway courses in C6 colleges are typically 13% less for Hispanic students than for White students, despite several prior and existing HSI projects at the individual institutions.
The C6-LSAMP project leverages the power of an alliance to support URM STEM students via three pillars: (1) Research Opportunities: Fall Research Symposium and university and LSAMP partnerships, (2) Academic Support: Embedded Tutors in gateway STEM courses, and (3) Professional Development/Career Exploration for students and for faculty: workshops, mentoring, and networking. Reinforcing each pillar is a commitment to creating culturally sensitive, relevant and responsive learning environments.
This work-in-progress poster will summarize some of the project activities, results, challenges and lessons learned during the first two years of the C6-LSAMP project.
Dal Bello, D. J., & Kuhn, J., & Curtis, J., & Reed, C. L., & Schiorring, E., & Gottlieb, S. M., & Hulick, S., & Jimenez, F. E., & Cuarenta-Gallegos, G., & Jewell, L., & Rebold, T., & Klein Williams, M., & Miller, J. W., & Mancini, F. J., & Selzler, J. (2024, June), Board 219: C6-LSAMP - Building Bridges to the Baccalaureate Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/46787
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