Increasing the Participation of Minority-serving Institutions in the Research in Disabilities Education Program

“增加少数族裔服务机构对残疾教育研究计划的参与”项目将提供技术援助，以通过STEM项目加强少数族裔服务机构（msi）的残疾支持服务，并增加msi对国家科学基金会残疾教育研究（RDE）计划的参与。技术援助将以研讨会的形式提供，以协助机构团队扩大和加强STEM的残疾支持服务，并进一步发展他们计划提交给2009财年RDE竞赛的提案。具体而言，QEM正在寻求支持，以便在2008年秋季举办一个为期两天的研讨会，由来自传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）、西班牙裔服务机构（HSIs）和部落学院和大学（tcu）的三人小组参加。为期两天的研讨会将容纳20个三人机构小组。每个团队必须包括：(1)来自符合条件的机构的STEM教员；(2)负责学校学生支持服务的协调员或其他官员，其职责包括为残疾学生提供支持；（三）教育/特殊教育系成员。研讨会的目的如下：a)讨论各参与校园为残疾学生提供的具体服务和资源，以及学生对这些服务和资源的使用情况；b)确定在各校园所采用的有效策略，以确保残疾学生能够使用所有校园设施、教材、辅导辅导和其他资源，包括辅助技术，以支持他们的学术学习；c)确定在各自校园提供所需服务和支持的障碍，并讨论减少/消除这些障碍的方法；(2)审核美国国家科学基金会残障教育研究（RDE）项目的最新项目征集；审查目前正在进行的rde资助项目的精选摘要；听取rde资助项目主任就有效策略所作的报告；并讨论参与团队对潜在RDE提案的初步想法。本计划包括了解残疾学生在专上STEM教育方面的知识，以及专上院校为残疾学生提供服务领域的专家顾问。一名独立的评估人员将评估该项目的成果和影响，项目的传播将包括通过残疾人可以方便使用的无障碍网站传播信息。

The "Increasing the Participation of Minority-serving Institutions in the Research in Disabilities Education Program" project will provide technical assistance to enhance disability support services at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) with STEM programs and to increase the participation of MSIs in the NSF's Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) program. The technical assistance will be provided in the form of a workshop to assist institutional teams in expanding and enhancing STEM focused disability support services and in further developing ideas for proposals they plan to submit to the FY 2009 RDE competition. Specifically, QEM is seeking support to conduct a two-day workshop in the fall of 2008, for three-person teams from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving Institutions (HSIs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs).The two-day workshop will be designed to accommodate 20 three-person institutional teams. Each team must include: (1) a STEM faculty member from an eligible institution; (2) the coordinator or other officer for the institution's student support services whose responsibilities include providing support to students with disabilities; and (3) a member of the institution's Education/Special Education faculty. The goals of the workshop are as follows:a) To discuss the specific services and resources available to students with disabilities on each of the participating campuses and the use of these services and resources by students;b) To identify effective strategies used on the respective campuses to ensure that students with disabilities have access to all campus facilities as well as to instructional materials, tutorial assistance, and other resources, including assistive technologies to support their academic study;c) To identify barriers to providing needed services and support on the respective campuses and to discuss ways those barriers might be reduced/eliminated; andd) To review the latest program solicitation for NSF's Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) Program; review selected abstracts of currently active RDE-funded projects; hear presentations by RDE-funded project directors on effective strategies; and discuss the participating teams' preliminary ideas for potential RDE proposals.This project includes consultants who are knowledgeable about students with disabilities in post-secondary STEM education and who are experts in the area of services provided by post-secondary institutions for students with disabilities. An independent evaluator will assess the outcomes and impacts of this project, and project dissemination will include diffusion of information via an accessible web-site that can be easily used by people with disabilities.