Conference Grant: Linking Communities to Advance Evaluation Capacity Building in Historically Black Colleges and Universities

本次会议打算带来一小群少数民族服务机构（MSI）的教师和专家在方案评估分享经验教训;提出新的和不断发展的理论嵌入土著文化的经验;并积极参与战略途径，以提高能力建设和持续应用响应文化适当的评价。这也是一项需求评估，重点是参与者从三个角度确定评估中所需的能力建设活动：他们自己的，他们的机构和整个历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）。这笔赠款将是通过扩大参与评价能力建设倡议扩大国家科学基金会先前发起的活动的后续行动。 拟议的会议还将为设计和修订战略/模式以及审查其使用情况奠定基础，以扩大代表性不足的少数群体在STEM评估中的参与。

This conference intends to bring a small group of Minority Serving Institution (MSI) faculty and experts in program evaluation to share lessons learned; to present new and evolving theories embedded within indigenous cultural experiences; and, to actively engage in strategizing avenues for improving capacity building and sustaining the application of responsive culturally appropriate evaluations. It is also a needs assessment focused on participant identification of needed capacity building activities in evaluation from three perspectives: their own, their institution and across Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This grant would be a follow-up to expand previous activities initiated by NSF through the Broadening Participation Initiative in Evaluation Capacity Building. The proposed conference also would set the stage for designing and revising strategies/models and the review of their use for broadening participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM evaluation.