Quantitative and Mathematics Support Center Workshop to Develop Handbook of Best Practices, Professional Organization and STEM Infrastructure

该项目正在召集来自一系列不同类型机构的定量和数学支持中心（QMaSCs）主任参加研讨会。这样的中心每年为全国成千上万的学生提供服务；他们出现在大型大学、文理学院和社区学院。虽然每个中心都在其特定的机构服务于不同的需求，但总的来说，它们都有共同的关注点和问题。然而，目前没有任何资源可供qmasc的董事及其员工利用。为了填补这一空白，PI团队为本次研讨会设定了三个主要目标：1)开始关于指导qmasc的全国性对话，以支持校园STEM基础设施的这一关键方面；2)建立一个可持续的质量质量管理中心工作人员网络，以提供和共享资源；3)为指导qmasc的人员或将来可能指导qmasc的人员编写一本最佳实践手册。研讨会负责人正与与会者合作，为质量管理中心的工作人员制定一个建立这样一个专业组织的框架。此外，研讨会的主要产品是qmasc主任手册，以全国校园使用的写作中心主任手册（Murphy and Stay, LEA Publishers, 2006）为蓝本。QMaSC手册预计将是一份公开可用的文件，旨在为QMaSC董事提供材料和经过验证的实践，包括关于指导中心的各种共享方面的章节和反映QMaSC开展的广泛活动的案例研究。

This project is convening a workshop of directors of Quantitative and Mathematics Support Centers (QMaSCs) from across a range of different types of institutions. Such centers serve tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of students across the country each year; and they are present at large universities, at liberal arts colleges, and at community colleges. While each center services a diverse set of needs at its specific institution, collectively they all share a common set of concerns and issues. Yet, there is currently no body of resources from which directors of QMaSCs and their staffs can draw. To fill this void, the PI team has set three principal goals for this workshop:1) to begin a national conversation on directing QMaSCs, in support of this key aspect of the STEM infrastructure on campuses; 2) to establish a sustainable network of people involved in the work of QMaSCs in order to provide and share resources; and3) to create a handbook of best practices for those who direct QMaSCs or those who may direct QMaSCs in the future.Workshop leaders are working with the participants to formulate a framework for establishing such a professional organization for staff members of QMaSCs. In addition, the primary product of the workshop is a handbook for directors of QMaSCs, modeled after the Writing Center Directors Handbook (Murphy and Stay, LEA Publishers, 2006) used on campuses nationwide. The QMaSC handbook is expected to be a publicly available document geared at providing materials and proven practices for QMaSC directors, including chapters on the various shared aspects of directing a center and case studies that reflect the broad range of activities undertaken by QMaSCs.