Southeast Regional Technical Assistance and Information Follow-up Workshop for Minority-Serving Institutions To Broaden Participation in NSF DRL Programs

斯佩尔曼学院将为少数族裔服务机构(MSI)举办为期2.5天的区域技术援助和信息会议/研讨会，以扩大它们对NSF正式和非正式环境中学习研究部门(DRL)项目的参与。斯佩尔曼学院将邀请尚未提交提案和/或在DRL提案竞赛中未获成功的经认可的MSI的教职员工和管理人员参加研讨会/会议。参与者将是50个两人机构团队，每个团队由一名来自与DRL计划活动相关的教育专业的教员和一名由NSF支持的科学、技术、工程或数学(STEM)领域的教员组成。会议的目标是让参与者发展研究或计划想法，并在准备和开发竞争性提案方面变得更加熟练。会议/研讨会将在历史上的黑人学院斯佩尔曼学院的校园内举行。研讨会期间将使用各种技术援助会议，以促进信息共享和对话，包括讨论DRL计划，讨论提案制定和提案提交要求，小组陈述和讨论会议，以及大型小组动手审查和评估提案反馈会议。会议/研讨会的主要目标不仅是增加麻省理工学院教师提交的以DRL为目标的提案的数量，而且还增加获得奖项的竞争性提案的数量。会议/研讨会还建议通过为MSI教职员工提供提高他们对促进研究和学习一体化的DRL计划的了解的机会来提高对DRL计划活动和要求的认识。通过让MSI的教职员工接触到相关信息和密集的指导，更多的独立研究人员将拥有强大的提案开发技能。

Spelman College will conduct a 2.5 day regional technical assistance and information conference/workshop for Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) to broaden their participation in programs of NSF's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL). Spelman College will invite faculty and administrators at accredited MSIs who have not submitted proposals and/or have been unsuccessful in DRL proposal competition to participate in the workshop/conference. The participants will be 50 two-person institutional teams, each consisting of a faculty member from an education specialty relevant to DRL programmatic activities and a faculty member in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) field supported by NSF. The goal is to have participants develop research or program ideas and to become more skillful in the preparation and development of competitive proposals.The conference/workshop will take place on the campus of Spelman College, a Historically Black College. A variety of techncial assistance sessions will be used during the workshop to facilitate information sharing and dialogue, including discussion of DRL programs, discussion on proposal development and proposal submission requirements, small group presentations and discussion sessions, and large group hands-on review and evaluation of a proposal feedback session. The major goal of the conference/workshop is not only to increase the numbers of DRL-targeted proposals submitted by faculty from MSIs but the numbers of competitive proposals resulting in awards. The conference/workshop also proposes to enhance awareness of DRL program activities and requirements by providing awareness opportunities for MSI faculty to increase their understanding of DRL programs that foster the integration of research and learning. By exposing MSI faculty to pertinent information and intense mentoring, more independent researchers will have strong proposal development skills.