Advanced Workshop on Improving the Quality of Proposals from Minority Serving Institutions

规模较小的大学，包括历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)、少数族裔服务机构(MSI)、西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)和美国印第安人服务工程学院(AISEI)，往往缺乏为竞争激烈且至关重要的STEM教育研究培养师资所需的资源。因此，许多教职员工在试图获得资金来研究和实施新的教育理念时遇到了障碍。此外，这使得这些机构很难采用现代教育学和新的STEM教育理念。最终，受害的是学生，因为他们可能得不到最新的STEM教育发现的好处。该项目正在帮助关键学校发展其STEM师资队伍，以便它们能够更好地与规模更大、资源更丰富的机构竞争。更强大的STEM教师队伍将转化为更强大的大学，以及更多更强大的STEM毕业生。该项目建立在先前研究的基础上，并纳入了以前成功的教师发展活动。这项工作也是由一群精英大学院长提供的，他们为项目设计提供了意见。正在使用外部评估员对结果进行评估，并将广泛传播。

Smaller universities including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Minority Serving Institutions (MSI), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) and American Indian Serving Engineering Institutions (AISEI) often lack resources required to prepare faculty for highly competitive and critically important STEM education research. As a result, many of the faculty are handicapped when they attempt to acquire funding to investigate and implement new educational ideas. Furthermore, this makes the adoption of modern pedagogy and new STEM education ideas difficult at these institutions. Ultimately, it is the students who suffer because they may not receive the benefits of the newest STEM education discoveries. This project is assisting critical schools to develop their STEM faculty so they are better able to compete with larger, resource richer institutions. Stronger STEM faculty will translate to stronger universities and to more and stronger STEM graduates. The project builds on prior research and incorporates previously successful faculty development activities. The work is also informed by an elite group of university deans who provided input to the project design. Outcomes are being assessed using an external evaluator and will be widely disseminated.