Providing Technical Assistance to Increase the Competitiveness of Biology Faculty at Minority Institutions in the Directorate for Biological Sciences

提供技术援助以提高生物科学理事会少数机构的生物教师的竞争力

• 批准号: 0443145
• 负责人: Shirley McBay
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-15 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0443145&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Providing; Technical; Assistance; Increase; Competitiveness

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network has been awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to provide technical assistance to Biology faculty members at minority institutions and underrepresented minority Biology faculty at other institutions to enable them to participate more successfully in programs within the Foundation's Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). Technical assistance will be in the form of proposal development workshops as well as alerts regarding potential funding and other opportunities within BIO, including possible service as ad hoc proposal reviewers, members of review panels, and/or rotators (temporary program staff positions). The workshops will involve 80 faculty per year, 40 in each of two workshops that will be held in different parts of the country. Each workshop will assist participants in becoming better informed about NSF and the programs within the BIO Directorate, including NSF's merit review criteria, how to prepare proposal narratives and budgets, and how to successfully manage and implement research projects. NSF/Directorate Officials and BIO Program Officers will be invited to the workshops to discuss their programs, respond to questions, and offer advice to participants regarding the participants' research ideas. In conducting the workshops, QEM staff will be assisted by former or current BIO grantees who will provide a strong source of expertise for participating faculty, particularly in helping them identify proposal strengths and weaknesses. Faculty at minority-serving institutions and minority faculty at other institutions play a major role in the production of minority baccalaureate degree recipients in the biological sciences as well as in the disproportionate production of minority college graduates who pursue doctoral degrees in the Biological Sciences. For these reasons and others, it is important that Biology faculty among this group receive external support for their research and teaching. BIO awards can help to build a strong support structure for faculty research and the integration of research and teaching.

少数民族优质教育网络获得了国家科学基金会的三年赠款，为少数民族机构的生物学教员和其他机构代表性不足的少数民族生物学教员提供技术援助，使他们能够更成功地参与基金会生物科学理事会（BIO）内的方案。技术援助将以提案制定研讨会的形式进行，并提醒BIO内部潜在的资金和其他机会，包括可能作为特设提案审查员、审查小组成员和/或轮换人员（临时计划工作人员职位）提供服务。 这些讲习班每年将有80名教员参加，在全国不同地区举办的两个讲习班各有40名教员参加。每个研讨会将帮助参与者更好地了解NSF和BIO董事会内的计划，包括NSF的优点审查标准，如何准备提案叙述和预算，以及如何成功地管理和实施研究项目。NSF/董事会官员和BIO项目官员将被邀请参加研讨会，讨论他们的计划，回答问题，并就参与者的研究想法向参与者提供建议。在进行研讨会，QEM工作人员将由前或现任BIO受助人谁将参与教师提供专业知识的强大来源，特别是在帮助他们确定建议的优点和缺点协助。 少数群体服务机构的教师和其他机构的少数群体教师在培养少数群体生物科学学士学位获得者以及培养不成比例的攻读生物科学博士学位的少数群体大学毕业生方面发挥着重要作用。由于这些原因和其他原因，重要的是，这一组中的生物学教师接受他们的研究和教学的外部支持。生物奖可以帮助建立一个强大的支持结构，教师的研究和研究与教学的整合。