Metacommunity for Broadening Participation in STEM Undergraduate Education

扩大 STEM 本科教育参与的元社区

• 批准号: 1548226
• 负责人: Kelly Mack
• 金额: $ 249.76万
• 依托单位: Association of American Colleges and Universities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1548226&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Metacommunity; Broadening; Participation; STEM; Undergraduate

The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and its Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) propose to develop an interlacing metacommunity of practice for broadening participation of underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The proposed metacommunity mirrors the goals of the National Science Foundation Human Resource Development (NSF HRD) Division to significantly increase the quality and quantity of underrepresented minorities who successfully complete baccalaureate degrees in STEM disciplines, and who continue on to graduate studies in these fields. This metacommunity will strategically expand the existing STEM Central web platform to meaningfully include the scholarly works of NSF HRD principal investigators (PIs), who lend both cultural sensitivity and authority to broadening participation theory, research, and practice. The welcomed addition of NSF HRD PIs to STEM Central, and the diverse perspectives and expertise that they will contribute, are critical in addressing, advancing and accelerating the capacity of contemporary STEM higher education reform efforts to meet increasingly complex, multicultural, and multidimensional challenges. STEM Central will provide a "digital habitat" for STEM faculty from a broad range of institution types to: 1) network, both synchronously and asynchronously; 2) expand institutional perspectives to include shared goals, commitments and challenges related to broadening participation; 3) allow for collective and individualized reflection that can create new knowledge at a faster pace; 4) foster innovative possibilities; and 5) deepen professional connections. The specific objectives of the Metacommunity for Broadening Participation are to:1) expand the STEM Central web platform to meaningfully include NSF HRD principal investigators; and 2) enhance a network of support for broadening participation professional development within mainstream STEM higher education. The metacommunity will immediately impact 7,000+ STEM faculty through the STEM Central online platform; and, either directly or indirectly, impact the tens of thousands of students these faculty encounter, in the classroom or laboratory, by providing tactical tools, strategies, and evaluation methodologies for broadening participation and measuring its effectiveness.

美国大学和大学协会（AAC＆U）及其项目万花筒（PKAL）提议开发一种交错的实践元社区，以扩大代表性不足的少数群体参与科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）。拟议的元社区反映了国家科学基金会人力资源发展（NSF HRD）部门的目标，以显着提高成功完成STEM学科学位学士学位的代表性少数群体的质量和数量，并继续在这些领域的研究生研究。 这种元社区将在战略上将现有的STEM中央网络平台扩展到有意义的包括NSF HRD首席研究人员（PIS）的学术著作，后者既利用文化敏感性和权力来扩大参与理论，研究和实践。欢迎增加NSF HRD PIS为中心的添加，以及它们将做出贡献的各种观点和专业知识对于应对当代STEM高等教育改革的能力至关重要，以应对日益复杂，多文化和多维挑战的能力。 STEM Central将为STEM教师提供一个“数字栖息地”，从广泛的机构类型到：1）同步和异步网络； 2）扩大机构观点，包括与扩大参与有关的共同目标，承诺和挑战； 3）允许集体和个性化的反思可以以更快的速度创造新知识； 4）促进创新的可能性； 5）加深专业联系。扩大参与的元社区的具体目标是：1）将STEM中央网络平台扩展到有意义的NSF HRD主要研究人员； 2）增强支持扩大主流STEM高等教育中参与专业发展的支持网络。 Metacommunity将通过STEM Central在线平台立即影响7,000多个STEM教师；而且，无论是直接或间接地影响了成千上万的学生在课堂或实验室中遇到的成千上万的学生，通过提供战术工具，策略和评估方法，以扩大参与并衡量其有效性。