Building Community through Grantee Meetings for the STEM Talent Enhancement Program

通过 STEM 人才增强计划受资助者会议建立社区

• 批准号: 0930277
• 负责人: Daniel Udovic
• 金额: $ 32.39万
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-15 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0930277&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Community; through; Grantee; Meetings

The NSF STEM Talent Enhancement Program (STEP) aims to increase the number of students graduating in STEM disciplines from the nation's universities, colleges and community colleges. The primary vehicle for achieving this goal is through the provision of merit-based grants to individual institutions or teams of institutions to support the implementation of strategies to improve recruitment and retention of STEM students (based on best practices). The overall success of STEP depends on the development and implementation of "best practices," which in turn depends on the development of a community of PI's (practitioners) who share ideas, resources, and data, and who can build on each other's successes and experiences. The goal of this project is to plan and organize annual meetings in 2010, 2011 and 2012 to facilitate the building of community among the scientists, administrators, student support specialists and evaluators involved in funded STEP projects. The project builds on the lessons learned from the first four STEP Grantees' meetings (2006 to 2009) to enhance the value of the meeting for all participants. As with previous meetings, each meeting will be held in the Washington, DC area over a period of 1.5 days, with three major components: plenary sessions; breakout sessions focused on topics of central importance to the participants; and poster sessions in which all projects are represented. Potential plenary speakers include researchers working in the area of higher education, particularly on topics such as student recruitment, retention, and development, institutional change, or the promotion of diversity, as well as experts whose work has emphasized the importance of increasing the nation's capacity in STEM disciplines. Breakout sessions will focus on topics of central importance to the participants and their projects. Typically, PI's from mature STEP projects will act as lead discussants or panelists, with NSF program officers moderating the discussions. Poster sessions will provide all participants the opportunity to share their challenges and successes as they relate to the theme of the meeting. All meeting planning will be done in consultation with DUE program officers and with an advisory committee of several STEP PI's, and will benefit from the analysis of responses of participants in surveys relating to the effectiveness of prior meetings.The intellectual merit of this proposal lies in enhancing the opportunity to share the lessons learned from STEP projects using diverse strategies. The resulting community of investigators will be able to make significantly more progress than they would if they remained isolated. This is particularly true for investigators in programs such as STEP because the framework for sharing ideas and findings in the meetings of scientific societies or in peer-reviewed articles is lacking.The broader impact of the project lies in the overall improvement in retention and recruitment of STEM students resulting from these investigators sharing their successes and failures, and in the development of better projects in the long run as the community develops a collection of proven best practices that can be adopted or adapted by other institutions.

NSF STEM人才提升计划（STEP）旨在增加美国大学、学院和社区学院STEM学科毕业生的数量。实现这一目标的主要手段是向个别机构或机构团队提供基于成绩的赠款，以支持实施改善STEM学生招聘和保留的战略（基于最佳做法）。STEP的总体成功取决于“最佳做法”的发展和实施，而“最佳做法”又取决于PI（从业者）社区的发展，PI（从业者）社区共享想法、资源和数据，他们可以在彼此的成功和经验的基础上再接再厉。 该项目的目标是规划和组织2010年、2011年和2012年的年度会议，以促进参与资助的STEP项目的科学家、行政人员、学生支助专家和评估人员之间的社区建设。该项目借鉴了前四次STEP受赠方会议（2006年至2009年）的经验教训，以提高会议对所有与会者的价值。与前几次会议一样，每次会议将在华盛顿地区举行，为期一天半，由三个主要部分组成：全体会议;分组会议，重点讨论对与会者至关重要的主题;以及海报会议，所有项目都有代表参加。潜在的全体发言人包括在高等教育领域工作的研究人员，特别是在学生招募，保留和发展，机构变革或促进多样性等主题上，以及专家，他们的工作强调了提高国家在STEM学科能力的重要性。分组会议将集中讨论对参与者及其项目至关重要的主题。通常情况下，来自成熟STEP项目的PI将担任主要讨论者或小组成员，NSF项目官员主持讨论。海报会议将使所有与会者有机会分享与会议主题有关的挑战和成功。 所有的会议计划都将与DUE项目官员和STEP PI的咨询委员会进行协商，并将受益于对参与者在与以前会议的有效性有关的调查中的反应的分析。由此产生的调查人员群体将能够取得比他们仍然孤立时大得多的进展。对于STEP等项目的研究人员来说尤其如此，因为缺乏在科学学会会议或同行评议文章中分享想法和发现的框架。该项目的更广泛影响在于，通过这些研究人员分享他们的成功和失败，STEM学生的保留和招聘得到了整体改善，以及长远而言，由于社区发展了一套行之有效的最佳做法，可供其他机构采用或调整，因此，我们可以在发展更好的项目方面发挥作用。