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民族服务机构（MSI）举办为期2.5天的区域技术援助和信息会议/研讨会，以扩大他们对国家科学基金会正式和非正式环境学习研究部门（DRL）项目的参与。Spelman学院将邀请未提交提案和/或在DRL提案竞赛中失败的认证msi的教师和管理人员参加研讨会/会议。参与者将是50个两人的机构团队，每个团队由一名来自与DRL项目活动相关的教育专业的教师和一名来自NSF支持的科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）领域的教师组成。目标是让参与者发展研究或项目的想法，并在准备和发展竞争性提案方面变得更加熟练。会议/研讨会将在斯佩尔曼学院（Spelman College）校园举行，这是一所历史悠久的黑人学院。研讨会期间将举行各种技术援助会议，以促进信息共享和对话，包括DRL项目的讨论、提案制定和提案提交要求的讨论、小组演讲和讨论会议，以及大型小组对提案反馈会议的实际审查和评估。会议/研讨会的主要目标不仅是增加msi教师提交的drl目标提案的数量，而且增加竞争性提案的数量，从而获得奖励。会议/研讨会还建议通过为MSI教师提供认识机会来提高他们对促进研究和学习整合的DRL项目的理解，从而提高对DRL项目活动和要求的认识。通过向MSI教师提供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.