Planning Grant for a STEM Broadening Participation Research Center Initiative

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科生方案（HBCU-UP）为进行机构自我分析提供支持，为扩大参与研究中心做准备。 扩大参与研究中心预计将作为严格的研究和广泛传播的关键知识和文化敏感的干预措施，有助于HBCUs在教育非洲裔美国人干本科生的成功国家中心。莫尔豪斯学院的该项目旨在规划基本的研究问题，实验设计和方案活动，以创建一个大规模的STEM扩大参与研究创新中心，旨在研究“HBCU如何最好地理解和激活特定学生中的特定天才品牌。“该项目的目标是采用这种基于资产的方法与HBCU，行业和非营利组织合作，规划一个研究中心，该中心将部分利用STEM创新作为学生赋权的工具。该项目的活动包括：与其他HBCU建立网络，并与莫尔豪斯学院建立伙伴关系;征求创新中心，行业和非营利组织的参与;制定明确的研究问题和实验;规划一个传播计划，包括一个全面的门户网站，研讨会，教师休假，学生和教师的暑期实习，会议和可能的期刊。该项目将由一个外部咨询委员会指导。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provides support to undertake an institutional self-analysis in preparation for a Broadening Participation Research Center. Broadening Participation Research Centers are expected to serve as a national hub for the rigorous study and broad dissemination of the critical pedagogies and culturally sensitive interventions that contribute to the success of HBCUs in educating African American STEM undergraduates. The project at Morehouse College seeks to plan the essential research questions, experimental designs and programmatic activities for creating a large-scale STEM broadening participation research innovation center designed to research "how HBCUs can best understand and activate the particular brand of genius within a given student."The goal of the project is to employ this asset-based approach in partnership with HBCUs, industry, and nonprofit organizations to plan a research center that will in part utilize STEM innovation as a tool for student empowerment. Activities of the project include: networking with other HBCUs and forming partnerships with Morehouse College; soliciting involvement from innovation centers, industry and non-profit organizations; developing well defined research questions and experiments; planning a dissemination program to include a comprehensive web portal, workshops, faculty sabbaticals, summer internships for students and faculty, conferences and possibly a journal. The project will be guided by an external advisory committee.