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，以促进历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）教师的社会科学研究提案的设计和资助。 资助的主要活动包括：1）举办研讨会，告知HBCU教师有关资助机会，2）提供实际的赠款写作经验，3）建议HBCU教师改进和扩大初步研究项目的战略，以充分发展的建议，4）协助HBCU教师修改和提交资助建议，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，以刺激教师研究和应用政策工作的更大的赠款寻求活动。这里提出的方法注意到指导和跟进教师发展项目的重要性。 因此，这项建议的重点是一组HBCU教师的想法，将在一年的时间内开发的研究项目，从一个讲习班将于2003年秋季在亚特兰大斯佩尔曼学院举行，匹配HBCU教师与经验丰富的研究导师，为HBCU教师制定时间表和程序，以向导师发送他们的研究建议草案，并接受修改反馈（透过电邮及电话），并于2004年初夏举行第二次跟进工作坊，让各学院提交建议书、初步或试验计划的研究结果，以及互相评论工作，最后于2004年秋季提交申请拨款的建议书。 在这里提出的过程超越了仅仅提供有关现有的补助金来源（这本身是重要的）在开始的研讨会的信息，并扩展了一个计划，为教师谁有前途的研究前景的建议书写作技能的发展。 该项目将为学院和大学的教员提供拟订提案和提交提案的培训，这些学院和大学在国家基础社会科学研究事业中历来和目前仍然代表性不足。 如果该项目成功地使教师更多地参与基础研究，将以增加资源、开展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，更加强调提案写作和研究经费将有助于创造一种研究文化，并为社会和行为科学的基础研究建立基础设施。 学生也将受益于研究经验的实践，这已被证明可以增加学生就读研究生院的可能性。

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.