CI-T: Minority-Serving Institutions Cyberinfrastructure Institute [MSI C(I)2]: Bringing Minority Serving Institution Faculty into the Cyberinfrastructure and e-Science Communities

CI-T：少数族裔服务机构网络基础设施研究所 [MSI C(I)2]：将少数族裔服务机构教师带入网络基础设施和电子科学社区

• 批准号: 0537498
• 负责人: Geoffrey Fox
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Institute for Higher Education Policy
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-10-01 至 2007-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0537498&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; Minority; Serving; Institutions; Cyberinfrastructure

PROJECT ABSTRACT: To maximize the vast research and education opportunities and the new way of doing science enabled by the emerging cyberinfrastructure, this initiative will help ensure that a diverse group of scientists, engineers, and educators from historically underrepresented minority institutions are actively engaged in the development or use of new cyberinfrastructure (CI) tools, strategies, processes, and resources. The Minority-serving Institutions Cyberinfrastructure Institute (MSI CI2) initiative will launch the strategic planning process with national CI leaders, host residential and online training employing active learning models, and establish a virtual community of e-Science practice as strategies for building the capacity of MSI faculty to fully exploit CI. MSI CI2 will build and enhance meaningful collaborations between MSIs and national CI initiatives to engage minority faculty and students in e-science and the international CI community. Initiative goals are to: (1) Develop the MSI faculty and technical staff CI and e-Science training and support program; (2) Build an MSI e-Science community of practice; and (3) Establish the MSI CI Institute portal. The project will bring together national leaders in CI with leadership of the three MSI communities to develop and provide curricula for a series of "train-the-trainer" sessions, a semester long internet course, seminars over the internet and at MSIs, and a summer residential institute. Mentors from the CI community will help guide individual MSI faculty projects. In addition, the project will include "Executive Awareness" activities for MSI presidents and their leadership teams.Broader Impact: This initiative lays the foundation for a scalable, national effort in which a representative group of stakeholders (in this case, key CI leaders and the broadest coalition of minority serving institutions in American higher education) act as the "human middleware" necessary to the development of a universally accessible and comprehensive infrastructure with the capacity to significantly accelerate the discovery and dissemination of scientific knowledge and further the national research agenda. This initiative will provide a model for the development of the MSI capacity to prepare underrepresented minority students for a future in CI-enabled science, the knowledge-based economy, and the scientific professoriate. Currently, MSIs are a significant source of science talent producing one-third (33 percent) of the minority baccalaureates in science. This is critical for the nation's future STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) workforce and the nation's global leadership in science and engineering. Through the three member organizations that comprise the Alliance for Equity in Higher Education (the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium), at least 335 Minority Serving Institutions could be impacted under full implementation of the Institute.

项目摘要：为了最大限度地利用大量的研究和教育机会以及新兴网络基础设施所带来的新的科学方法，该倡议将有助于确保来自历史上代表性不足的少数民族机构的科学家，工程师和教育工作者积极参与开发或使用新的网络基础设施（CI）工具，战略，流程和资源。 少数民族服务机构网络基础设施研究所（MSI CI 2）倡议将启动与国家信息和传播领导人的战略规划进程，采用主动学习模式举办住宿和在线培训，并建立一个电子科学实践虚拟社区，作为建立MSI教师充分利用信息和传播能力的战略。MSI CI 2将建立和加强MSI与国家CI计划之间的有意义的合作，以使少数民族教师和学生参与电子科学和国际CI社区。倡议的目标是：（1）开发MSI教师和技术人员CI和电子科学培训和支持计划;（2）建立MSI电子科学实践社区;（3）建立MSI CI研究所门户网站。该项目将使传播和信息领域的国家领导人与MSI三个社区的领导人聚集在一起，为一系列“培训培训员”课程、一个学期的互联网课程、互联网和MSI研讨会以及暑期住宿学院制定和提供课程。来自CI社区的导师将帮助指导MSI教师的个人项目。 此外，该项目还将包括为玛丽·斯托普斯国际组织主席及其领导团队开展的“提高行政意识”活动。这一倡议为一项可扩展的国家努力奠定了基础，在这项努力中，一个有代表性的利益攸关方团体（在这种情况下，关键的CI领导人和美国高等教育中少数民族服务机构的最广泛联盟）充当“人类中间件”这是发展普遍可及的综合基础设施所必需的，该基础设施有能力大大加快科学知识的发现和传播，并推进国家研究议程。 这一举措将为MSI能力的发展提供一个模式，使代表性不足的少数民族学生为未来的CI科学，知识经济和科学教授做好准备。 目前，MSIs是科学人才的重要来源，占科学少数民族学士学位的三分之一（33%）。 这对于美国未来的STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）劳动力以及美国在科学和工程领域的全球领导地位至关重要。 通过组成高等教育平等联盟的三个成员组织（西班牙裔学院和大学协会，全国高等教育平等机会协会和美国印第安人高等教育联合会），至少有335所少数民族服务机构可以在该研究所的全面实施下受到影响。