Workshop on Fostering Competitive Social Science Research Among Faculty of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Atlanta, GA, October 2003

该项目旨在实施一项计划，以促进历史黑人学院和大学(HBCU)的教职员工设计和资助社会科学研究提案。将获得资助的主要活动包括1)举办研讨会，告知HBCU教职员工有关资助机会的信息；2)提供实际的拨款撰写经验；3)就如何将初步研究项目细化和扩展为完全开发的提案的策略向HBCU教职员工提供建议；4)协助HBCU教职员工修订和提交资助提案；以及5)在提案制定和提交过程中和之后建立导师关系。研讨会的目标是为HBCU的教职员工提供指导、资源和支持，以刺激更多的教师研究和应用政策工作的拨款申请活动。这里提出的方法指出了在教师发展项目中指导和跟进的重要性。因此，这项建议将注意力集中在HBCU教职员工，他们对研究项目有想法，将在一年内开发研究项目，研讨会将于2003年秋季在亚特兰大的斯佩尔曼学院举行，使HBCU教职员工与经验丰富的研究人员导师相匹配，制定时间表和程序，让HBCU教职员工在2003/2004学年向导师发送他们的研究提案草稿，并(通过电子邮件和电话)接收修订反馈意见，在2004年初夏举行第二次后续研讨会，教职员工将在会上提出提案、初步或试点项目结果，并对彼此的工作提出批评。最后，在2004年秋季提交了筹资建议。这里提出的过程不仅仅是在最初的研讨会上提供关于现有拨款来源的信息(这本身很重要)，还扩展了发展具有前景研究前景的教职员工的提案撰写技能的计划。该项目将为学院和大学的教职员工提供提案制定和提交方面的培训，这些学院和大学传统上在国家基础社会科学研究企业中的代表性一直较低，目前仍然不足。如果该项目成功地让教师更多地参与基础研究，将以增加资源、进行研究的机会和学术奖学金的形式为大学、教师和学生带来巨大的好处。此外，更加重视提案写作和研究资质将有助于创造一种研究文化，并为社会科学和行为科学的基础研究建立基础设施。学生还将以实践研究经验的形式受益，这已被证明增加了学生进入研究生院的可能性。

This project is to implement a program to facilitate the design and funding of social science research proposals by faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The main activities to be funded include 1) conducting a workshop to inform HBCU faculty about funding opportunities, 2) providing actual grant writing experience, 3) advising HBCU faculty in strategies for refining and expanding preliminary research projects into fully developed proposals, 4) assisting HBCU faculty in the revision and submission of proposals for funding, and 5) establishing mentor relationships during and after the proposal development and submission process. The goal of the workshop is to provide guidance, resources, and support to faculty members at HBCUs to stimulate greater grant-seeking activity for faculty research and applied policy work. The approach proposed here notes the importance of mentoring and follow up in faculty development projects. Thus, this proposal focuses attention on a group of HBCU faculty with ideas for research projects that will be developed during a one-year period beginning with a workshop to be held in the fall, 2003, at Spelman College in Atlanta, matching HBCU faculty with experienced researcher mentors, establishing a timetable and procedure for HBCU faculty to send mentors drafts of their research proposals and receive feedback for revision (via email and telephone) during the 2003/2004 academic year, holding a second follow-up workshop in the early summer, 2004 where faculty would present proposals, preliminary or pilot project findings, and critique one another's work, and concluding with the submission of proposals for funding in the fall 2004. The process proposed here goes beyond providing mere information about existing grant sources (which is itself important) at the beginning workshop, and extends a plan for developing the proposal writing skills of faculty who have promising research prospects. The project will provide training in proposal development and submission to faculty at colleges and universities that have traditionally been and currently remain underrepresented in the nation's basic social science research enterprise. If the project is successful in getting faculty more involved in basic research, tremendous benefits will accrue to the university, faculty and students in the form of increased resources, opportunity to conduct research, and academic scholarship. Additionally, a greater emphasis on proposal writing and research grantsmanship will help to create a research culture and build infrastructure for basic research in the social and behavioral sciences. Students will also benefit in the form of hands on research experiences, which has been shown to increase the probability that a student will attend graduate school.