Invitational Seminar for Computer Science, Mathematics, and Science Faculty of Minority Institutions

该系列研讨会是国家科学基金会和国家标准局为少数民族院校的教师开展的科学和数学技术推广计划的延续。将举行两次为期四天的研讨会（每次研讨会将在NSF和NSB分别举行两天）。会议将为NSF提供一个机会，让来自30-40个少数民族机构的大约60名教职员工了解相关的NSF项目和NSF概况。它还为NSF项目官员提供了一个机会，与少数族裔机构的关键人物会面，这些人可以帮助确定潜在的审稿人，也可以确定少数族裔研究人员，并鼓励他们参与NSF项目。该提案的优势在于：(1)对先前会议的评估认为它们是有用的，对最近的联合研讨会的评估发现，对参加会议的教师来说，了解国家科学基金会项目的机会被认为是非常重要的；(2)联合赞助将大大降低两个赞助机构的成本；(3)这种形式的活动超越了个人项目的被动方式，成为基金会和参与机构人员的催化剂。

This seminar series is a continuation of the National Science Foundation and National Bureau of Standards outreach program for technology in science and mathematics for faculty of minority institutions. Two, four-day, seminars will be held (each seminar will consist of two days at NSF and two days at NSB). The meetings will provide an opportunity for NSF of acquaint approximately 60 faculty members from 30-40 minority institutions with relevant NSF programs and NSF in general. It also provides an opportunity for NSF program officers to meet key people at minority institutions who can facilitate the identification of potential reviewers and who can identify minority researchers and encourage their participation in NSF programs. The strengths of the proposal are that (1) evaluations of prior meetings have judged them useful and the evaluation of the recent joint seminar found that the opportunity to learn about NSF programs was judged very important to the faculty who attended, (2) joint sponsorship will significantly reduce the costs for both sponsoring agencies, (3) this form of activity moves beyond passive approaches of individual programs and acts as a catalyst for personnel at both the Foundation and the participating institutions.